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Subject: Re: Win7 system update hosed something in Cygwin
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On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 18:28:09, David Karr  wrote:
> I logged into my Win7 laptop and I saw it was having some connection
> problems, so I decided to reboot.
> 
> After the reboot I found that Cygwin had some basic problems.  I brought up
> a mintty window (C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -e /bin/bash --login) and the
> prompt looked odd.  It wasn't the PS1 value that I set in my .bashrc. It
> also seemed to be saying that my current directory was "/", which is not my
> homedir.

Re. your subject title: not likely.

Please study /etc/profile where it says "here is how HOME is set" ...

Henri

> I tried to cat out /etc/passwd, but there was no "passwd" (or "groups") in
> /etc . I looked at the output of "env", and it does say that HOME is "/".
> 
> When I saw this behavior, I tried rebooting again just in case, but it
> didn't change.  I guess I'm going to try running the cygwin installer to
> see if it will repair itself. I have no idea whether it would do that.


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