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Re: Bash initialization w/cygwin-1.7 on NT4
- From: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:20:41 +0100
- Subject: Re: Bash initialization w/cygwin-1.7 on NT4
- References: <4A517753.6000800@verizon.net>
Jerry DeLisle wrote:
> I am making the switch to 1.7. I started with a clean windows (nt4)
> environment and went through the usual run of setup-1.7 downloaded today.
>
> All appears fine, but bash does not get initialized.
>
> pwd is /usr/bin
>
> path is not set
>
> home directory is not created
>
> These are all taken care of nicely for the user with cygwin 1.5
>
> I think this is a bug unless I am missing something in the install process.
This is symptomatic of a problem preventing the postinstall scripts from
having run correctly, isn't it? Have a look in your /var/log/setup.log*
files, and see what happened to base-files-profile.sh.
cheers,
DaveK
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