From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13644 invoked by alias); 16 Aug 2019 13:28:57 -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 13635 invoked by uid 89); 16 Aug 2019 13:28:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=Environment, H*c:alternative, wish X-HELO: mail-ed1-f44.google.com Received: from mail-ed1-f44.google.com (HELO mail-ed1-f44.google.com) (209.85.208.44) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:28:55 +0000 Received: by mail-ed1-f44.google.com with SMTP id w20so5137843edd.2 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2019 06:28:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=vDjiS//ltmQSDAg3XzGCfBdY93Z0LyFAumlsCeWwMAo=; b=Ld4XZvNp4cFvEf8mTxpDxDr6XmX8vI/h0i4lkJPrXmzJ8J5Y13Zu36nHLlNU7mtZj+ r6y1IPKvByDQC4BqBXWHCiTHFQPq2HslNwls7g/cwSl1CDfMpZ+foQTAkb32RsDaRZra Rc1cR+1oku7f8LwNY7gDvnMjpeV/4/55sViKZPPpThlBVQEl6yNhY+aobHXF3AdO3yt/ HM4KddnfH1Ts4BXfG/XGyURxd5RuKn2KAnJlHkB8I6z8jEqM0brPLU9sH5A8QplVK3K7 nDb2tUqf8S8fh0+omVDRPbGLGqDfvKY5xkl3ZXJf4M5YVzDqrUD0mv7l0dYXGbxCiQ4i RQLA== MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <852665122.20190816134116@yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: <852665122.20190816134116@yandex.ru> From: David Karr Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:40:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: More on Win7 update messing up HOME To: The Cygwin Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-08/txt/msg00221.txt.bz2 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/" 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 > > "+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. -- 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