On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 4:02 AM, Thomas Wolff <t...@towo.net> wrote: > On 26.11.2015 09:26, EXT David Macek wrote: >> >> On 26. 11. 2015 2:27, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: >>> >>> Hi; >>> >>> It seems that a 32bit Windows server with a pre-existing MKS Toolkit >>> installation prevents an interactive Cygwin window (mintty) from >>> starting properly. >>> >>> If the c:\mksnt directory (where MKS Tookkit is installed) is >>> renamed to c:\NOTmksnt, then double-clicking the Cygwin icon results >>> in: >>> >>> "Failed to run C:/mksnt/sh.exe: No such file or directory" >>> >>> But if the c:\NOTmksnt directory is renamed back to what it was, then >>> the window opens up with sh.exe from mksnt instead of bash and seems >>> to hang for a very long time. >>> >>> Why is this? Part of me thinks that Cygwin and MKS Toolkit should >>> just coexist just fine, each not knowing about the other (c:\cygwin >>> and c:\mksnt). Part of me thinks that I'd like to have Cygwin come >>> first in the path rather than having c:\mksnt first in the path. Is >>> there a way to force the Cygwin install process (or fix it afterward) >>> to put Cygwin first? >>> >>> I tried to change /etc/profile so that the PATH variable was set to >>> exclusively Cygwin stuff, but that had no effect. >>> >>> How to fix this outside Cygwin? (The Windows side) >>> >>> How to fix this inside Cygwin? >> >> Sounds to me like your login shell is hard-coded to C:/mksnt/sh.exe. >> >> What does `getent passwd $(whoami) | cut -d: -f7` say (run >> `C:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -i` directly to get a working shell)?
/bin/bash > And what does `readshortcut -a "$Desktop/Cygwin Terminal.lnk"` say? readshortcut: Load failed on C:\cygwin\Cygwin Terminal.lnk What does that imply? Thanks! Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
