AW: Cygwin 1.3.19 Windows 2000 Professional SP3 bash $home /usr/bin/%USERPROFILE%

["Schaible, Jörg" <Joerg dot Schaible at gft dot com>]

Hi David,

something broke your HOME environment variable. While the value is basically OK, it seems that the variable itselft has not longer the correct type. To use system environment variables in another environemnt variable (or any other registry entry), the type of the string REG_EXPAND_SZ. Your symptom arises if the registry type of the entry is just REG_SZ indicating a normal sring.

So somehow the type of the entry got screwed and the result is not Cygwin's fault, start a normal Windows shell and show your %HOME%! Cygwin is just using what Windows tells it to use. To fix the problem, remove the entry and create a new one (you might use the regedt32, that is able to create such strings - or use Cygwin's regtool.

Regards,
Jörg

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Von: David Christensen [mailto:dpchrist@holgerdanske.com]
Gesendet: Sonntag, 26. Januar 2003 06:04
An: cygwin@cygwin.com
Betreff: Cygwin 1.3.19 Windows 2000 Professional SP3 bash $home
/usr/bin/%USERPROFILE%


cygwin@cygwin.com:

I have been using Cygwin on Win2k Pro SP3 for a while now, and really
like it.  Today, I downloaded and installed Dia Win32 Installer.  The
next time I started Bash, it was broken -- the prompt spans two (three?)
lines, Bash starts in the wrong directory, and $HOME environment is
wrong:

    dpchrist@w2k30g ~
    $ pwd
    /usr/bin/%USERPROFILE%

    dpchrist@w2k30g ~
    $ echo $HOME
    /usr/bin/%USERPROFILE%


Initially, I thought this was a Dia problem.  Uninstalling Dia did not
fix it.  I tried reinstalling Bash with no luck.  I don't know how to
get at the Cygwin DLL, so I couldn't try that.  Moving aside the
C:\cygwin directory and reinstalling Cygwin didn't fix it.


Searching the archive for this mailing list, my query of
"/usr/bin/%USERPROFILE%" was converted into "usr and (bin or bins) and
userprofile and ", yielding 644 hits.  I was unable to figure out how to
search on an exact phrase.


An advanced Google search was more productive:

    http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg00764.html

    http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg00766.html


Browsing the archives for this mailing list and searching back through
the months for "/usr/bin/%USERPROFILE%" with my browser, I found the
following in November of 2002:

    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg00809.html

    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg00766.html

    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg00764.html

    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg00761.html

    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg00759.html


Per the posting by Michael Caplan of Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:23:52 -0500, I
am experiencing the same problem.  His Cygnus DLL was 1.3.15, mine is
1.3.19.  I haven't compared versions of the various packages.


Per the posting by Harig, Mark A. of Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002
15:17:21 -0500, I have attached the output of "cygcheck -s" as a file
(cygcheck.txt) rather than including it here.


Per the posting of Harig, Mark A. of Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002
15:30:12 -0500:

1.  Output of the "id" command is as follows:

        dpchrist@w2k30g ~
        $ id
        uid=1000(dpchrist) gid=513(None)
groups=513(None),544(Administrators),545(Users)

    Output of the "id -un" command is as follows:

        dpchrist@w2k30g ~
        $ id -un
        dpchrist

2.  I have made no changes whatsoever to the default Cygwin install of
today, including /etc/passwd.  Permissions and ownership of this file
are as follows:

        dpchrist@w2k30g ~
        $ ls -l /etc/passwd
        -rw-r--r--    1 dpchrist None          749 Jan 25 18:57
/etc/passwd

    Permission and ownership of /etc is as follows:

        dpchrist@w2k30g ~
        $ ls -ld /etc
        drwxr-xr-x    5 dpchrist None            0 Jan 25 18:53 /etc

3.  I am launching Bash using the desktop shortcut created by Cygwin
setup.  This shortcut points to C:\cygwin\cygwin.bat.  Permissions and
ownership are as follows:

        dpchrist@w2k30g ~
        $ ls -l /cygwin.bat
        -rwxr-xr-x    1 dpchrist None           57 Jan 25 18:57
/cygwin.bat

    I have made no changes whatsoever to this file, which contains:

        @echo off

        C:
        chdir C:\cygwin\bin

        bash --login -i

    I have made no changes whatsoever to /etc/profile, also attached.
Permissions and ownerships are as follows:

        dpchrist@w2k30g ~
        $ ls -l /etc/profile
        -rw-r--r--    1 dpchrist None          386 Jan 25 18:57
/etc/profile

    Bash is not finding my home directory (/home/dpchrist), so I am
omitting ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, and ~/.profile.


Per the posting by Michael Caplan of Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:08:25 -0500, I
am leery of hacking /etc/profile and have not done so.  The default file
installed by Cygwin setup is attached for those so inclined.


Per the posting of Harig, Mark A. of Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002
11:50:39 -0500:

1.  Permissions and ownership of /etc/password are as follows:

        dpchrist@w2k30g ~
        $ ls -l /etc/passwd
        -rw-r--r--    1 dpchrist None          749 Jan 25 18:57
/etc/passwd

    The relevant line is as follows:

        dpchrist:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1000:513:David
Christensen,U-W2K30G\dpchrist,S-1-5-21-1229272821-1202660629-1060284298-
1000:/home/dpchrist:/bin/bash

    The last two entries look correct.

2.  Permissions and ownership of /etc are given above.  Permissions are
already 0755.


Can someone please tell me how to fix the problem?


TIA,

David Christensen
dpchrist@holgerdanske.com

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