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Jerry DeLisle wrote:
> I am making the switch to 1.7.  I started with a clean windows (nt4)
> environment and went through the usual run of setup-1.7 downloaded today.
> 
> All appears fine, but bash does not get initialized.
> 
> pwd is /usr/bin
> 
> path is not set
> 
> home directory is not created
> 
> These are all taken care of nicely for the user with cygwin 1.5
> 
> I think this is a bug unless I am missing something in the install process.

  This is symptomatic of a problem preventing the postinstall scripts from
having run correctly, isn't it?  Have a look in your /var/log/setup.log*
files, and see what happened to base-files-profile.sh.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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