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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 13:02:14 +0100
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On 26.11.2015 09:26, EXT David Macek wrote:
> On 26. 11. 2015 2:27, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
>> Hi;
>>
>>    It seems that a 32bit Windows server with a pre-existing MKS Toolkit
>> installation prevents an interactive Cygwin window (mintty) from
>> starting properly.
>>
>>    If the c:\mksnt directory (where MKS Tookkit is installed) is
>> renamed to c:\NOTmksnt, then double-clicking the Cygwin icon results
>> in:
>>
>> "Failed to run C:/mksnt/sh.exe: No such file or directory"
>>
>> But if the c:\NOTmksnt directory is renamed back to what it was, then
>> the window opens up with sh.exe from mksnt instead of bash and seems
>> to hang for a very long time.
>>
>>     Why is this?  Part of me thinks that Cygwin and MKS Toolkit should
>> just coexist just fine, each not knowing about the other (c:\cygwin
>> and c:\mksnt).  Part of me thinks that I'd like to have Cygwin come
>> first in the path rather than having c:\mksnt first in the path.  Is
>> there a way to force the Cygwin install process (or fix it afterward)
>> to put Cygwin first?
>>
>>    I tried to change /etc/profile so that the PATH variable was set to
>> exclusively Cygwin stuff, but that had no effect.
>>
>>    How to fix this outside Cygwin? (The Windows side)
>>
>>    How to fix this inside Cygwin?
> Sounds to me like your login shell is hard-coded to C:/mksnt/sh.exe.
>
> What does `getent passwd $(whoami) | cut -d: -f7` say (run `C:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -i` directly to get a working shell)?
>
And what does `readshortcut -a "$Desktop/Cygwin Terminal.lnk"` say?


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