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Subject:	RE: upgrade to 1.7 experience ; Cygwin.bat doesn't find home directory
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Just a note which I hope is related.

vim was having problems with one of its files in ~.  In Windows Explorer I =
copied the entire /home folder (d:\path\home) from 1.5 to c:\cygwin\home, t=
hereby overwriting it.  Then I used Explorer again to remove any read-only =
attributes.  That seemed to solve the problem.  (But maybe something else f=
ixed it.)  It might solve others.

I had the impression that some things in ~ were no longer there, but I did =
not check carefully.  That things would disappear during the upgrade was ce=
rtainly unexpected and remains hard to believe.

I apologize in advance if the above is totally off-the-wall, misleading, th=
e result of faulty memory or intellect, bad advice, etc.

I also apologize for top-posting.  The switch from ash to dash seems to hav=
e broken some scripts (or is it something with $CYGWIN?), including my quot=
e-fix script.  (bash is also not behaving identically.)

Happy Holidays.

- Barry
  Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

-----Original Message-----
From: Myron Flickner; Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 2:56 AM

It appears that bash not finding the home directory is caused by a missing =
/etc/profile.   I copied over this file from a 1.5 system and now bash find=
s my profile  and .bashrc.=20=20=20

Is this a bug or by design ?=20

 imaging away / flick

----- Original Message ----

Sorry for the crappy formatting on my first post - this should be easier to=
 read.=20

I just upgraded my first XP Pro machine from 1.5 to 1.7 - a couple of minor=
 issues

Part of the post-install failed with many popup dialogs  - "The procedure e=
ntry point __ctype_ptr__ could not be located in the dynamic link library c=
ygwin1.dll".=20=20

After a reboot bash wouldn't start  - same error message.  Reinstalling the=
 base package cleared this issue up.=20

Cygwin.bat doesn't find my home directory (which is a sym link) rathe it pr=
ints a message telling me that there
 isn't a ./.bashrc in /usr/bin.   Looks like Cygwin.bat is identical betwee=
n 1.5 and 1.7 but the behavior is=20
different.    I thought this might be related to the mount point changes - =
but running copy-user-registry-fstab
 didn't change anything.    I did notice that this script uses $USER  which=
 isn't set for me.   I set it and re-ran the
 script but I don't see any difference.    I never did see a /etc/fstab.d/$=
USER directory - but I don't have user=20
mount points on this machine.  I also created a none sym link home director=
y but that didn't help either.

Are other folks seeing this behavior ?   Any suggestions ?

imaging away / flick



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