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Re: install bash-login problem
Do you have a correct /etc/passwd file? That file lists your home
directory, but if cygwin cannot access your home dir, it might give that
error. Also, is $HOME defined in your environment? You could define it
in windows or in the cygwin.bat file.
HTH,
Peter
Joel Bushart wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael A Chase" <mchase@ix.netcom.com>
> To: "Joel Bushart" <jdbushart@hotmail.com>; "Cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 11:33 AM
> Subject: Re: install bash-login problem
>
>
>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Joel Bushart" <jdbushart@hotmail.com>
>>To: "Cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
>>Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 08:29
>>Subject: install bash-login problem
>>
>>
>>
>>>I stripped cygwin completely off my system, including registrary
>>>
> systems.
>
>>>Then reinstalled it from a fresh version of setup.exe
>>>
>>>get this error when I try login from cmd prompt.
>>>
>>>C:\>.\cygwin\bin\login
>>>login: joel
>>>Password:
>>>No directory /home/Joel!
>>>Logging in with home = "/".
>>>Fanfare!!!
>>>You are successfully logged in to this server!!!
>>> 14 [main] -bash 2936 sync_with_child: child 3980(0x628) died before
>>>initial
>>>ization with status code 0x0
>>> 35279 [main] -bash 2936 sync_with_child: *** child state waiting for
>>>longjmp
>>>bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
>>>bash-2.05a$
>>>
>>The correct way to get a bash prompt is the same as shown in
>>c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat, start bash: bash --login -i
>>
>>You are not logging into UNIX, you are starting an alternate shell in
>>Windows.
>>--
>>
>
> My apologies I forgot to mention that that login error also occurs from the
> cygwin.bat file when I double click it. :(
> anywho, I thought that some greater minds than I may make some sense out of
> it as bash seems to work fine but login fails. I'm not sure if cygwin or
> login is in error.
>
> thanks again,
> Joel
>
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