From: David Karr <davidmichaelkarr@gmail.com>
To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Win7 system update hosed something in Cygwin
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:48:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA5t8VqBgrOwWN6KJyqm+72wtWDu8QY=t3F5kHKEODH-qVHiJQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0b92f093cce0c8b0f1b43c9ed6dabac9@smtp-cloud8.xs4all.net>
On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 2:01 AM Houder wrote:
> 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.
>
Cygwin was working fine. I rebooted. Cygwin broken.
> Please study /etc/profile where it says "here is how HOME is set" ...
>
Ok. This says:
# 1) From existing HOME in the Windows environment, translated to a
Posix path
# 2) from /etc/passwd, if there is an entry with a non empty directory
field
# 3) from HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH
# 4) / (root)
I just brought up a cmd shell and entered "set" and looked at the result.
1. I don't have a "HOME" variable setting.
2. /etc/passwd doesn't exist in Cygwin.
3. I DO have both HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH set, and that points to my Windows
home directory, which DOES exist.
4. This is what I am getting.
So, before this reboot, my Cygwin home directory has always been
"/home/<myuid>", which has always resided at "c:\cygwin64\home\<myuid>".
After the reboot, my Cygwin home directory is "/", which appears to
translate to "c:\cygwin64" (from "cygpath -w /"). However, according to
the rules listed in /etc/profille, I SHOULD be getting home set to
"c:/Users/<myuid>", although I don't want that.
Any other ideas?
> 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.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-16 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-16 1:28 David Karr
2019-08-16 9:01 ` Houder
2019-08-16 14:48 ` David Karr [this message]
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
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