Yes. You are probably installing on W98? I believe the problem has been identified and solved in principle and (presumably?) the solution will at some stage be implemented. For the moment you can get round things as follows:
mkdir /home/{yourname} and move anything there that you need to, in the way of your own .bash_profile, .bashrc, .inputrc, etc. (There may be none of these; but whatever's currently in /usr/bin/{yourname}/ is probably specific to you. When I experienced this problem, /usr/bin/{myname}/ was empty.) Then edit the file /etc/passwd which probably looks something like this {yourname}::500:544::{yourname}:/bin/bash to this: {yourname}::500:544::/home/{yourname}:/bin/bash If you then close Cygwin and then start it up again everything should work fine. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/