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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 09:17:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Alan W. Irwin" <irwin AT beluga DOT phys DOT uvic DOT ca>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Home directory issue
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On 2013-07-08 11:09-0400 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

> On 7/2/2013 7:50 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote:
>> After installing Cygwin on a new system that is in a domain, there is
>> something that is breaking with user setup.
>>
>>   * The user home directory is not getting created
>>   * /usr/loca/bin & /usr/bin are not prepended to PATH
>>   * The user home directory is/cygdrive/Users/<user>,
>>      instead of/home/<user>
>>   * The path IS correct in/etc/passwd (/home/<user>)
>
> <snip>
>
> Is the HOME environment variable set in your Windows environment?  If not,
> check the postinstall scripts in '/etc/postinstall', paying particular
> attention to those that don't end in '.done'.  If you have some of these,
> run them yourself with 'sh <scriptname>' and then move the script to
> '<scriptname>.done'  Run the scripts in the order they appear.  Otherwise,
> if HOME is defined in the Windows environment, just remove the definition.
> You may find you have to rerun some of the postinstall scripts to "recover",
> particularly '000-cygwin-post-install.sh'.  Or you can try wiping the
> installation and starting over.
>

I experienced all the same symptoms reported by the OP with my
setup.exe on Wine attempt.  So you have given me hope that some of the
errors I saw were due to not setting HOME.  Could you be more specific
about exactly how HOME should be set "in your Windows environment".

Under Wine I can get into a cmd environment.  From there the top-level
directory of the Cygwin installation directory that I usually create
with setup.exe is designated as

z:\home\wine\newstart\cygwin

That same directory is designated as

/z/home/wine/newstart/cygwin

from the bash/wine environment.

What exact cmd command should I use to set HOME for user "wine" before
I run a setup.exe from cmd to establish a Cygwin installation tree
from scratch whose top-level is given above? Would it be

set HOME=z:\home\wine\newstart\cygwin\home\wine

or something else?

I prefer the bash environment so if I set the HOME environment
variable from there would setup.exe (run from bash) pick that up
and use it?  If so, would it be set by

export HOME=/z/home/wine/newstart/cygwin/home/wine

or something else?   (As you can probably tell, I am having some
difficulty in sorting out the differences in the way directories and
environment variables are specified, at the bash/linux, bash/wine,
cmd/wine, and cygwin/wine levels.)

Are there any other environment variables that should be set as well
before running setup.exe for a fresh install?

Alan
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Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

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