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From: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: strange install problems
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 16:06:05 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Erik Weibust
> Sent: 01 April 2004 15:32

> I'm not sure what or why it's trying to do with an h:
> drive.  I have a local c and d drive, and I have i and
> s network drives, and a z samba mount.  I did have an
> h drive in the past, but with the "uninstall" I
> performed I don't know why it would be a problem now. 
> Any ideas?

  Because it's still referred to in an environment variable somewhere?

> Also, I didn't see a /home/$USER ?  Could this be
> because of the problems I listed above?

  It couldn't create the /etc/group or /etc/passwd files, because for some
reason it was trying to do so on the non-existent H drive; this in turn
means that cygwin's notion of what your username and/or group are must be in
a mess; it also suggests that you've got an environment variable which
cygwin is importing and trying to use to set as your home directory or
something.


    cheers, 
      DaveK
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