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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:56:15 -0800 (PST)
From: Myron Flickner <flickner AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: upgrade to 1.7 experience ; Cygwin.bat  doesn't find home directory
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It appears that bash not finding the home directory is caused by a missing /etc/profile.   I copied over this file from a 1.5 system and now bash finds my profile  and .bashrc.   

Is this a bug or by design ? 

 imaging away / flick



----- Original Message ----

Sorry for the crappy formatting on my first post - this should be easier to read. 

I just upgraded my first XP Pro machine from 1.5 to 1.7 - a couple of minor issues

Part of the post-install failed with many popup dialogs  - "The procedure entry point __ctype_ptr__ could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll".  

After a reboot bash wouldn't start  - same error message.  Reinstalling the base package cleared this issue up. 

Cygwin.bat doesn't find my home directory (which is a sym link) rathe it prints a message telling me that there
 isn't a ./.bashrc in /usr/bin.   Looks like Cygwin.bat is identical between 1.5 and 1.7 but the behavior is 
different.    I thought this might be related to the mount point changes - but running copy-user-registry-fstab
 didn't change anything.    I did notice that this script uses $USER  which isn't set for me.   I set it and re-ran the
 script but I don't see any difference.    I never did see a /etc/fstab.d/$USER directory - but I don't have user 
mount points on this machine.  I also created a none sym link home directory but that didn't help either.
 

Are other folks seeing this behavior ?   Any suggestions ?

imaging away / flick


      

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