From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 102282 invoked by alias); 16 Aug 2019 09:01:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 102269 invoked by uid 89); 16 Aug 2019 09:01:17 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=HX-Languages-Length:1014 X-HELO: lb2-smtp-cloud8.xs4all.net Received: from lb2-smtp-cloud8.xs4all.net (HELO lb2-smtp-cloud8.xs4all.net) (194.109.24.25) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 16 Aug 2019 09:01:07 +0000 Received: from tmp.8eIS3U8egi ([83.162.234.136]) by smtp-cloud8.xs4all.net with ESMTPSA id yY6Xh1w4MDqPeyY6YhcD3T; Fri, 16 Aug 2019 11:01:04 +0200 Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 09:01:00 -0000 Message-ID: <0b92f093cce0c8b0f1b43c9ed6dabac9@smtp-cloud8.xs4all.net> From: Houder Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Win7 system update hosed something in Cygwin References: In-Reply-to: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=fixed User-Agent: mua.awk 0.99 X-SW-Source: 2019-08/txt/msg00212.txt.bz2 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. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple