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Hi,

I installed cygwin on MS Windows XP from files I downloaded earlier 
this week (13 or 14 Feb 2006). Picked the default option to make cygwin 
available for all users. I installed from the Administrator account.

Usually, the first time I start cygwin, it recommends running mkpasswd and 
mkgroup. This time it did not so I performed those two steps by hand (with 
the local option since the PC is not part of a domain).

Everything works fine from the Administrator account: regular cygwin bash 
command window and startx.  From a regular account (with Power User), bash 
startup fails with the following error message (or something similar, 
doing this from memory).

 	bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

Made sure /tmp exists and is accessible: it is. Made sure the user's home 
directory exists and is accessible: it is.

From the failed bash, few things run: 'pwd' is OK but bash cannot find 
'ls'. The PATH variable does not contain any cygwin paths.

It looks like the port-installation failed or initialisation failed. Note 
that I installed a subset of the packages I normally install. There were 
no dependency warnings.

What am I missing?

Thank you.

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