On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 13:59:59 +0200
Thomas Wolff wrote:
> I upgraded 3.3.3 → 3.3.4 in a lab environment, where my home directory
> is H:\ or /cygdrive/h
>
> Starting cygwin (cmd/bash or mintty) with some tools from gnuutils (like
> ls) in the path gives me this message:
>
> mkdir: cannot create
use your software in years.
Best wishes,
Aldi Kraja, DSc, PhD
aldi.kr...@pystat.com
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> > All postinstall steps failed because of BLODA or installation
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> From: Andrey Repin
> Sent: 03 March 2021 12:56
>
> Greetings, KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT)!
>
> >> All postinstall steps failed because of BLODA or installation path:
> >>
> >> 2021/02/09 17:48:06 running: C:\Program Files\Cygwin\bin\dash.exe
> >> "/etc/postins
Am 03.03.2021 um 13:43 schrieb KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT):
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> >> On 2021-03-02 01:08, KAVALAGIOS
Greetings, KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT)!
>> All postinstall steps failed because of BLODA or installation path:
>>
>> 2021/02/09 17:48:06 running: C:\Program Files\Cygwin\bin\dash.exe
>> "/etc/postinstall/0p_000_autorebase.dash"
>>0 [main] dash (2296) shared_info::initialize: size of
Am 03.03.2021 um 12:22 schrieb KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT):
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>
> > zip 358KB > 256KB too b
On 2021-03-02 01:08, KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT) wrote:
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Subject: RE: Home directory was not created
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On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 15:33, KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT) wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Something went wrong to my Cygwin installation update (update is performed by
> removing everything and installing again the new version). The home directory
> of my user was not created, when you run Cygwin for
On 2021-03-01 08:33, KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT) wrote:
Something went wrong to my Cygwin installation update (update is performed
by removing everything and installing again the new version). The home
directory of my user was not created, when you run Cygwin for the first time.
When I start
Silly me -- problem was due to a typo in an old (and forgotten)
fstab.d file.
Never mind. Sorry for the troubles...
"" wrote at about 15:47:59 -0400 on Tuesday, August 27, 2019:
> In summary:
> 1. Home directory is not accessible via: 'cd ' or 'cd ~' (it
>takes me to /tmp) and 'ls -al /home
On 06/04/2016 17:48, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
My employer is making us use Box Sync for backup. We have to move all
directories we want backed up into the Box Sync folder.
So I have moved my Cygwin ~ (home) directory to that folder. I
configured nsswitch.conf as follows:
db_home: /cygdri
> So I have moved my Cygwin ~ (home) directory to that folder. I
> configured nsswitch.conf as follows:
>
> db_home: /cygdrive/c/Users/reisert/Box%_Sync/Home
>
> Most things are working. However, my Xterms are coming up in the
> default 80x24 format with black text on a white background. The
On 2013-07-08 13:21-0400 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
I believe you have drawn the opposite conclusion from what I was trying
to convey. It is best to _not_ have HOME set in your Windows environment
prior to running 'setup.exe'. If you do have it set, 'setup.exe' will
use that directory as your
On 7/8/2013 12:17 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
On 2013-07-08 11:09-0400 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 7/2/2013 7:50 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote:
After installing Cygwin on a new system that is in a domain, there is
something that is breaking with user setup.
* The user home directory is not getting
On 2013-07-08 11:09-0400 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 7/2/2013 7:50 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote:
After installing Cygwin on a new system that is in a domain, there is
something that is breaking with user setup.
* The user home directory is not getting created
* /usr/loca/bin & /usr/bin are no
On 7/2/2013 7:50 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote:
After installing Cygwin on a new system that is in a domain, there is
something that is breaking with user setup.
* The user home directory is not getting created
* /usr/loca/bin & /usr/bin are not prepended to PATH
* The user home directory is/cyg
Greetings, Soumya Roy!
Please, don't top-post.
> Howver as it turns out, previously when I was typing "$ ls ~"I was
> getting the contents of "Documents and Settings/Valnt"but now
> however "$ ls ~" gives me the actual proper content of
> "/cygwin/home/Valnt"which is perfect...howev
Hi Andrey !
I get what you mean
I definitely must have made a mistake while trying to fix the problem,
the analogy of what I was doing is like that of black box testing, I
try to fix in some way but I don't really "know" what is going on
inside and I just check the result...;-)
Howver as it tu
On 8/2/2012 2:28 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
Greetings, Soumya Roy!
Just to give the last few lines of my /etc/passwd file:-
/home/SUPPORT_388945a0:/bin/bash
VALNT:unused:1003:513:U-SMEI-EC058E66\VALNT,S-1-5-21-1614895754-178822364\
8-725345543-1003:/home/VALNT:/bin/bash
My only question: Why you'
Greetings, Soumya Roy!
> Just to give the last few lines of my /etc/passwd file:-
> /home/SUPPORT_388945a0:/bin/bash
> VALNT:unused:1003:513:U-SMEI-EC058E66\VALNT,S-1-5-21-1614895754-178822364\
> 8-725345543-1003:/home/VALNT:/bin/bash
My only question: Why you're doing this?
Isn't your profile d
Just to give the last few lines of my /etc/passwd file:-
/home/SUPPORT_388945a0:/bin/bash
VALNT:unused:1003:513:U-SMEI-EC058E66\VALNT,S-1-5-21-1614895754-178822364\
8-725345543-1003:/home/VALNT:/bin/bash
thanks
On 8/2/12, Soumya Roy wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> first of all I'm not a 'knows the ins
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Soumya Roy wrote:
> Well my life went fine until later on I fired up cygwin and realized
> that my intial directory has now been changed from
> "c:/cygwin/home/username" to "c:/Documents and Settings/username"...
Look for a HOME environment variable set in the Windo
On 10/3/07, Gmane User wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
> > On 02 October 2007 15:26, Gmain User wrote:
> >
> >> Brian Dessent writes:
> >>> Gmane User wrote:
> >>>
> it makes it hard to quickly scan for changes to "mv". Many software
> systems have cumulative release notes with each new rele
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> I did indeed check that before posting to ask about where release notes can be
> found. In fact, they can be found peicemeal at http://tinyurl.com/2dxno3, but
> it makes it hard to quickly scan fo
Dave Korn wrote:
> On 02 October 2007 15:26, Gmain User wrote:
>
>> Brian Dessent dessent.net> writes:
>>> Gmane User wrote:
>>>
it makes it hard to quickly scan for changes to "mv". Many software
systems have cumulative release notes with each new release...would the
release note
On 02 October 2007 15:26, Gmain User wrote:
> Brian Dessent dessent.net> writes:
>>
>> Gmane User wrote:
>>
>>> it makes it hard to quickly scan for changes to "mv". Many software
>>> systems have cumulative release notes with each new release...would the
>>> release notes can be findable in s
Warren Young wrote:
> Gmain User wrote:
>> Thanks, Brian. I was actually asking in the context of not updating cygwin
>> right away. Whether or not one could access up-to-date accumulation of
>> release
>> notes, possibly on the web.
>
> Cygwin doesn't have monolithic "releases". Every individ
Gmain User wrote:
Thanks, Brian. I was actually asking in the context of not updating cygwin
right away. Whether or not one could access up-to-date accumulation of release
notes, possibly on the web.
Cygwin doesn't have monolithic "releases". Every individual package is
on its own release
Andrew DeFaria DeFaria.com> writes:
>Gmain User wrote:
>> Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>>>
>>> Personally I'd:
>>> $ mv /home /home.save
>>> $ mount -bsf /// /home
>>> $ mv -rp /home.save/* /home
>>>
>>> Adjust the output of /etc/passwd to use /home/$USER
>>
>> That places all cygwin file trees for all u
Paul McFerrin wrote:
Gmain User wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin cygwin.com> writes:
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There's no reason to fear this. I have all sorts of Cygwin
installation where the root drive is not C:. It works just fine.
Larry Hall:
When having multiple copies of Cygwin installed on your
Gmain User wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin cygwin.com> writes:
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There's no reason to fear this. I have all sorts of Cygwin
installation where the root drive is not C:. It works just fine.
Larry Hall:
When having multiple copies of Cygwin installed on your hard drive, how
do y
Larry Hall (Cygwin cygwin.com> writes:
>Gmane User wrote:
>> ...it might be worthwhile to
>> uninstall cygwin, then reinstall it on a secondary IDE drive (not
>> drive c:), along with the cygwin user file/folder tree. It has a
>> lot more space, so I can forget the network drive altogether. I
>>
Brian Dessent dessent.net> writes:
>
> Gmane User wrote:
>
> > it makes it hard to quickly scan for changes to "mv". Many software systems
> > have cumulative release notes with each new release...would the release
> > notes
> > can be findable in such a form online?
>
> less /usr/share/doc/C
Gmane User wrote:
Brian Dessent wrote:
Gmane User wrote:
If I were make c:/cygwin/home/UserName my home directory, what is the best way?
Ssh only considers /etc/passwd, so it seems best to manually set it there,
though I'd have to manually fix it each time I recreate it. It still seems to
be
Gmain User wrote:
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Gmane User wrote:
ACcording to http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.home,
the cygwin home directory is determined by the checking the
following, in the order listed:
1. Windows HOME environment variable
2. /etc/passwd
3. HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH
Gmane User wrote:
> it makes it hard to quickly scan for changes to "mv". Many software systems
> have cumulative release notes with each new release...would the release notes
> can be findable in such a form online?
less /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/coreutils-*.README
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Brian Dessent wrote:
> Gmane User wrote:
>
>> If I were make c:/cygwin/home/UserName my home directory, what is the best
>> way?
>> Ssh only considers /etc/passwd, so it seems best to manually set it there,
>> though I'd have to manually fix it each time I recreate it. It still seems
>> to
>>
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>> Is there somewhere online
>> where the release notes can be perused so that I can avoid updating
>> cygwin right away? I usually find that an update is followed by a
>> period
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>> My coreutils 6.7-2 doesn't have a "-r" option for the "mv" command. I
>> haven't been able to find release notes for the currrent coreutils
>> 6.9-5 to see if it is simply a n
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> Is there somewhere online
> where the release notes can be perused so that I can avoid updating
> cygwin right away? I usually find that an update is followed by a
> period of anomalous behaviour.
[Pho
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> My coreutils 6.7-2 doesn't have a "-r" option for the "mv" command. I
> haven't been able to find release notes for the currrent coreutils
> 6.9-5 to see if it is simply a new switch. Is there somewher
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>Gmane User wrote:
>> ACcording to http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.home,
>> the cygwin home directory is determined by the checking the
>> following, in the order listed:
>>
>> 1. Windows HOME environment variable
>> 2. /etc/passwd
>> 3. HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH v
Gmane User wrote:
ACcording to http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.home, the
cygwin
home directory is determined by the checking the following, in the
order listed:
1. Windows HOME environment variable
2. /etc/passwd
3. HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH variables in the Windows environment
4.
Gmane User wrote:
> If I were make c:/cygwin/home/UserName my home directory, what is the best
> way?
> Ssh only considers /etc/passwd, so it seems best to manually set it there,
> though I'd have to manually fix it each time I recreate it. It still seems to
> be the best way, but opinions are
Keith Green wrote:
> "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total
> Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
The universe do not work that way! Goodnight!
--Molle
===
Morbo (shouting): "Windmills do not work that way! Goodnight!"
-- Futurama
BTW, this is an easy enough problem to 'fix'. I just tell
it to cd /home/kgreen at the end of .bashrc . That works fine.
But I shouldn't have to do this.
k
> > BUT ... when I double click on icon (cygwin.bat), it keeps
> bringing me
> > up in /usr/bin.
> > I've tried disabling ~/.bashrc and ~/
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Green, Keith wrote:
>
> > New problem. Never had this one before.
> > In Windows, I define the HOME variable to C:\etc.
> >
> > However, my cygwin.bat file reads
> >@echo off
> >set HOME=/home/kgreen (also tried set
> HOME=H:\cygwin\home\kgreen )
> >H:
> >
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Green, Keith wrote:
> New problem. Never had this one before.
> In Windows, I define the HOME variable to C:\etc.
>
> However, my cygwin.bat file reads
>@echo off
>set HOME=/home/kgreen (also tried set HOME=H:\cygwin\home\kgreen )
>H:
>chdir H:\cygwin\bin
>
* Chris W (2004-06-16 22:13 +0100)
> Larry Hall wrote:
>>Look at 'etc/defaults/etc/profile'. It explains how Cygwin looks for
>>and determines what to set HOME to. You should be able to track what's
>>going on from there.
>>
> From what I read there it seems it is setting home based on the value
Larry Hall wrote:
Look at 'etc/defaults/etc/profile'. It explains how Cygwin looks for
and determines what to set HOME to. You should be able to track what's
going on from there.
From what I read there it seems it is setting home based on the values
of HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH but before it does th
At 02:46 PM 6/16/2004, you wrote:
>Vince Hoffman wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Chris W wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>It seems that somewhere $HOME is getting set to /cygdrive/c. I want it
>>>to be /home/$USER like the /etc/profile would set it to if it wasn't
>>>already set to /cygdrive/c. So where do I
Vince Hoffman wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Chris W wrote:
It seems that somewhere $HOME is getting set to /cygdrive/c. I want it
to be /home/$USER like the /etc/profile would set it to if it wasn't
already set to /cygdrive/c. So where do I change that?
Have a look at your windows environme
Vince Hoffman wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Chris W wrote:
It seems that somewhere $HOME is getting set to /cygdrive/c. I want it
to be /home/$USER like the /etc/profile would set it to if it wasn't
already set to /cygdrive/c. So where do I change that?
Have a look at your windows environment vari
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Chris W wrote:
> It seems that somewhere $HOME is getting set to /cygdrive/c. I want it
> to be /home/$USER like the /etc/profile would set it to if it wasn't
> already set to /cygdrive/c. So where do I change that?
>
Have a look at your windows environment variables. (typ
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 09:27:25AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, John Morrison wrote:
>
> > Igor, think there's anything /etc/profile could do about this?
> >
> > J.
>
> John,
>
> This is thin ice... On one hand, we want to make things work pretty
> seamlessly. On the ot
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:08:39 -0400, Ji-Wei Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned:
> My computer runs Windows 2000 Professional. I verified $USER is correct
> from cygwin but $HOME was not set during installation (I don't know
> why). I also noticed that the file /etc/profile does not seem to have the
My computer runs Windows 2000 Professional. I verified $USER is correct
from cygwin but $HOME was not set during installation (I don't know
why). I also noticed that the file /etc/profile does not seem to have the
lines to set HOME (comparing to other people's profile). Now I have to set
HOM
Sent: 01 October 2003 16:16 From: Igor Pechtchanski
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote:
> > Furthermore could $HOME be defaulted to \home\'current_user' if not
> > explicitly set?
>It already is, except it's "/home/$USER", not "\home\$USER" (read up on
>POSIX vs Win32 paths in Cygwin if you
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote:
> Sent: 01 October 2003 14:27 From: Igor Pechtchanski
> > This is thin ice... On one hand, we want to make things work pretty
> > seamlessly. On the other, we don't want to limit the more advanced users
> > by not letting them change the home directory on
Sent: 01 October 2003 14:27 From: Igor Pechtchanski
> This is thin ice... On one hand, we want to make things work pretty
> seamlessly. On the other, we don't want to limit the more advanced users
> by not letting them change the home directory on the fly (anyone doing
> that, anyway?). One "sol
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, John Morrison wrote:
>
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Ji-Wei Wu wrote:
> >
> > > I downloaded and installed the latest cygwin today on my computer. I
> > > followed all defaults during installation (in c:\cygwin). After that, I
> > >
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Ji-Wei Wu wrote:
>
> > I downloaded and installed the latest cygwin today on my computer. I
> > followed all defaults during installation (in c:\cygwin). After that, I
> > started a cygwin bash shell but found that it did not s
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Ji-Wei Wu wrote:
> I downloaded and installed the latest cygwin today on my computer. I
> followed all defaults during installation (in c:\cygwin). After that, I
> started a cygwin bash shell but found that it did not start in the
> /home/$USER directory ($USER means the use
Thanks! Now it works!
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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
> COMMON_DESKTOP=`regtool get
>
'\HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
> Folders\Common Desktop'`
> ALLHOME=`cygpath -u "$COMMON_DESKTOP/../.."`
Don't know if you care, but the latest version of
cygpath has -D and -A options that will output the
"All Users' Desktop"
dire
Hi Laurence,
I tried to correlate Window's home and Cygwin's home by the following lines
in /etc/profile. I end up mounting /home to the "Profile" directory of
Windows (wherever it may be in the different versions) and set home
according to $USERPROFILE that is set by the system. This gives a qui
Michael A Chase wrote:
>> Since no login occurs, place it in your batch file calling bash, or in
>> /etc/profile like I do. Here is my /etc/profile that correct many such
>> environment variable problems I found over the time:
> The problem with setting HOME to a fixed value in cygwin.bat or
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From: "Greg Mosier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 13:55
Subject: Re: $HOME Directory Relocation
> From: "Michael A Chase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: $HOME Directory
From: "Michael A Chase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: $HOME Directory Relocation
> The problem with setting HOME to a fixed value in cygwin.bat or
/etc/profile
> is that limits your cygwin installation to a single user. That's why the
> default /etc/profile all
Michael A Chase writes:
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| From: "Benoit Rochefort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To: "Laurence F. Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Cc: "Cygwin@Cygwin. Com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 13:11
| Subject: R
- Original Message -
From: "Benoit Rochefort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Laurence F. Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Cygwin@Cygwin. Com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 13:11
Subject: Re: $HOME Directory Relocation
>
Benoit Rochefort writes:
| Since no login occurs, place it in your batch file calling bash, or in
| /etc/profile like I do. Here is my /etc/profile that correct many such
| environment variable problems I found over the time
Please note that with my /etc/profile, I can easily "change" identity, t
Laurence F. Wood writes:
| Hello,
|
| I needed to relocate the $HOME directory to another disk volume. Under
| linux the login process sets this. Who/what sets $HOME under cygwin?
Since no login occurs, place it in your batch file calling bash, or in
/etc/profile like I do. Here is my /etc/pro
If you are using bash it's done by /etc/profile, normally based on the
contents of /etc/passwd. If you have set the windows environment variable
HOME, it is passed through.
Short answer: set HOME in your windows per user environment.
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