From: David Karr <davidmichaelkarr@gmail.com>
To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: More on Win7 update messing up HOME
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:40:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA5t8Vp9xRjv1Quy02Xoy+FXFGxqrPgYOp_f7ecNrP=HP+bYdA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <852665122.20190816134116@yandex.ru>
On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 3:50 AM Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, David Karr!
>
> > I wish I could get my own messages on this list, so I could add more
> > information to my first note.
>
> Just reply to your own initial message. Or better yet, subscribe.
>
I am subscribed. I can't reply to my own initial message because I never
receive my own postings, I only receive notes sent by other people.
> > Running the installer again made no difference. It still thinks my HOME
> is
> > "/".
>
> Do you have %HOME% variable set in your user environment?
> Do you have %HOMEDRIVE%/%HOMEPATH% variables defined to something
> unsettling?
>
I checked "Environment Variables" in control panel, and I'm not setting
anything beginning with "HOME" in either user or system variables.
> > I don't know what environment variables are set or inspected by cygwin.
> I
> > see that the "USERNAME" variable seems to have my expected value.
>
> > I tried running "mkpasswd -d" and grepping for my userid, and it was
> there
> > (along with many others).
>
> > I can "fix" the environment in the mintty shell by setting HOME to
> > "/home/<myuid>" and then sourcing my .bashrc and .bash_profile. That
> > doesn't help my Emacs desktop shortcut, which uses "run2".
>
> > I noticed that when I do an "ls -lt" in my homedir, instead of the owner
> > and group of files being my simple uid, it's something like
> > "<MYDOMAIN>+User(1944941)" and "2993517" (group and user, respectively, I
> > believe).
>
> Please remove any /etc/{group,passwd} files and try again.
>
I have neither of those files. That's what I'm saying.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-16 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-16 2:39 David Karr
2019-08-16 10:50 ` Andrey Repin
2019-08-16 13:40 ` David Karr [this message]
2019-08-16 18:22 ` Hans-Bernhard Bröker
2019-08-16 18:42 ` David Karr
2019-08-16 18:43 ` Lee
2019-08-16 20:35 ` David Karr
2019-08-16 20:47 ` Andrey Repin
2019-08-16 21:02 ` Quanah Gibson-Mount
[not found] ` <1FFDA2C4248A525343CFDE92@192.168.1.144>
2019-08-16 22:11 ` David Karr
2019-08-17 8:16 ` Achim Gratz
2019-08-18 1:37 ` David Karr
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