Re: Problem with xterm-301-1

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>]

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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:33:22AM -0700, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Ola Strömfors wrote:
> 
> > After updating from 291-1 to 301-1 xterm starts /bin/sh instead of
> > my shell specified in /etc/passwd or in the SHELL environment variable.
> 
> I saw the same thing, but only on my home computer running Windows 7
> Pro 64-bit, not on my work laptop running Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit.
> 
> I start Xwin this way (i.e. same as Cygwin-X group in Start menu):
> 
>     C:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe
> 
> I don't know why SHELL defined as /bin/sh by default (my entry in the
> /etc/passwd file invokes bash).  I could not find a way to change

That sounds like a case reported Saturday - see

	ftp://invisible-island.net/temp/xterm-301a.patch.gz

I have a few other reports on different issues to iron out, and
expect to be ok with #302 sometime next week.

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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