Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20021213152852.02016098@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 15:37:08 -0800 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: Slowness on app startup after recent update (and yes I read the FAQ) - Solution - kind of In-Reply-To: <20021213231406.35916.qmail@web40402.mail.yahoo.com> References: <3DFA597D DOT 9010105 AT cern DOT ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Ron, Why ask why? It can all be traced back to the primordial singularity, of course. Is your HOME set in the Windows environment? If it is, the value inherited from the environment upon shell startup will override the value that would otherwise have been taken from your entry in /etc/passwd. Why does upgrading software make things change? Because the newer software is different. Sometimes those changes render old scripts and code non-functional. Blind upgrading is not really advisable. Read the release notes and know what to expect and whether any special procedures are required. (Take it from someone who's been bitten by upgrading without reading the release announcements.) Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 15:14 2002-12-13, Ron Wood wrote: >That is it. My $HOME is set to '/'. If I change it to >something else things work as expected. > >This opens up two questions, > >1. Why is $HOME set to '/'? According to /etc/profile >it should be set to /home/RDW. id -un returns RDW. Not >sure why this is not setup correctly. > >2. This was working fine before updating my cygwin >setup. My $HOME was set to '/' before and everything >was fine. > >I've hardcoded some things to get around this problem. >Not sure why this happened. I havn't changed anything >or have an unusual setup. > >Thanks for all your help, > >ron -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/