From: David Karr <davidmichaelkarr@gmail.com>
To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Win7 system update hosed something in Cygwin
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 01:28:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA5t8VocmswTXD4Y7QLxe1NkbZ0Jj+Nt40dFXjHF+9cTP8zW3A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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.
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
next reply other threads:[~2019-08-16 1:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-16 1:28 David Karr [this message]
2019-08-16 9:01 ` Houder
2019-08-16 14:48 ` David Karr
2019-08-16 15:16 ` Houder
2019-08-16 18:31 ` Houder
2019-08-16 18:47 ` David Karr
2019-08-16 18:45 ` David Karr
2019-08-16 21:01 ` Houder
2019-08-16 21:46 ` Andrey Repin
2019-08-16 22:33 ` David Karr
2019-08-16 21:20 ` L A Walsh
2019-08-17 1:23 ` David Karr
2019-08-17 5:31 ` David Karr
2019-08-18 6:04 ` L A Walsh
2019-08-17 7:11 ` Achim Gratz
2019-08-19 12:34 ` Andrey Repin
2019-08-20 18:02 ` Win7 update may create confusing Cygwin changes L A Walsh
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=CAA5t8VocmswTXD4Y7QLxe1NkbZ0Jj+Nt40dFXjHF+9cTP8zW3A@mail.gmail.com \
--to=davidmichaelkarr@gmail.com \
--cc=cygwin@cygwin.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).