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From: ericblake AT comcast DOT net (Eric Blake)
To: Poor Yorick <com DOT cygwin DOT cygwin AT pooryorick DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: bash not running bash_profile or bashrc
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 02:11:50 +0000
Message-Id: <092020050211.3222.432F6FE600083E5A00000C9622073000330A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net>

> I recently deleted c:\cygwin and my package repository and then 
> installed cygwin again using the latest setup.exe.

That's usually not necessary.  It is possible (even recommended)
to upgrade without wiping the older versions, so that your
customizations are preserved.

>  The first xterm that 
> gets fired up with startxwin.bat correctly runs .bash_profile.  However, 
> if I start another xterm from that xterm, neither .bash_profile nor 
> .bash_rc is run.  PS1 gets reset to "$".  The second xterm also loses 
> tab-completion functionality.  I do, however, in the second xterm, get 
> the "Your group is currently "mkpasswd" message.
> 
> Because it might be related, I'll describe a second problem. The command

Yep, it was related - until you have run mkpasswd, /etc/passwd is
unpopulated, so cygwin doesn't know any better than to set your
home directory to:

> 
> HOME = `/cygdrive/n'

And if that is not what you thought it should be, it would explain
why your .bashrc was not found.

> 
> mkpasswd -d > /etc/passwd
> 
> seems to hang.  I get no output and it never completes. 

Depending on the size of your domain, it can take a LOOONG time.  Be
patient, it is not hung.  If you want to see progress, do this instead:
mkpassword -d | tee /etc/passwd

--
Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin bash maintainer



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