From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@Shaw.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: Yuta SUZUKI <suzuyu1729@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Mintty terminal crashes after changing the default home via nsswitch.conf and launch in a new profile in Windows 11
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2023 13:46:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fb79d3f4-ef1e-cc9e-1596-6d76a8b73dfe@Shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ_58ioyu9bDq_1xxRSfOTnG=D3Fwev3m87SiCds5B8iCcEgBA@mail.gmail.com>
On 2023-04-04 09:13, Yuta SUZUKI via Cygwin wrote:
> I am recently setting up the computer room of my faculty
> and then encountered the following issue:
> Short description:
> Change the default home directory via
> /etc/nsswitch.conf
> and make a new Windows user.
> Login to the new user (and do not logout) and launch cygwin.
> After opening another application's window, e.g. Explorer,
> and try to switch the focus between the cygwin window and the other window.
> After once or twice of switch, switching is not smooth
> and both the cygwin and the other application seem freezing.
> (Still we can launch powershell to restart the machine.)
> Procedure to reproduce the issue:
> 1. Login as an administrator.
> 2. Install cygwin with the default configuration.
> 3. In C:\cygwin64\etc\nssswitch.conf, replace
> # db_home: /home/%U
> to
> db_home: /%H/cygwin
When you change this field from the default, it is up to you to understand and
support the setting.
This setting example is only a suggestion, not meant to be used verbatim, and
means that, for each Windows account at setup or login, under the user's Windows
home directory, you will create a literal "cygwin" subdirectory, to be mounted
by Cygwin at the user's Cygwin "login" as the user's Cygwin home directory
/home/$USER.
Cygwin startup is probably waiting for an automounter to provide the directory
here, just as if this were a Samba, NFS, or Unix network mount, or a Windows
remote profile mount set up under
{$USERPROFILE,$HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH}/AppData/Remote/.
Given the use of "cygwin" as a schema also here, this is possibly a poor
example, which could be better documented.
--
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer but when there is no more to cut
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-04 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-04 15:13 Yuta SUZUKI
2023-04-04 19:46 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
2023-04-05 2:56 ` Yuta SUZUKI
2023-04-05 19:55 ` Brian Inglis
2023-04-05 20:29 ` Yuta SUZUKI
2023-04-05 18:44 ` Thomas Wolff
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