Re: Initial run of BASH doesn't initialize home directory

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Thomas Smith wrote:

> I was able to get Cygwin to run without problems and then decided to try
> Cygwin/X to take advantage of X.
>
> I completely uninstalled Cygwin...

Why?!

> ...as follows:
>
> - Deleted the Desktop and Start Menu shortcuts.
> - Deleted C:\cygwin
> - Deleted Cygnus Solutions from the Registry.
>
> I removed all of the downloaded source Cygwin files and started the
> Cygwin/X installer--everything seems to install correctly. The only

There is no such thing as a Cygwin/X installer.  There is a Cygwin
installer which installs the xorg-* family of Cygwin packages.

> non-default packages I select are:
>
> gcc
> vim
> nano
> inetutils
> openssh
> xorg-x11-base
> xorg-x11-devel
> xorg-x11-man-pages
>
> When I start the Cygwin Bash Shell for the first, I get dropped to a
> shell prompt and placed in /usr/bin. My Home directory isn't created and
> the general Cygwin environment doesn't work--that is, I'm not able to
> execute any commands. In fact, no files even appear in /usr/bin.

This isn't an X-related problem, and thus belongs on the main Cygwin list.
Please remove cygwin-xfree from further messages.

> I've researched this problem and haven't been able to locate a solution.
> I'm also not sure how to start troubleshooting it.
>
> Any ideas as to how I can start troubleshooting this problem?

Please read and follow the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at
<http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.  Please pay particular attention to the
part that asks you to attach the output of "cygcheck -svr".

It might also help to know how you're starting bash.
	Igor
-- 
				http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
      |\      _,,,---,,_		pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_		igor@watson.ibm.com
     |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'		Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D.
    '---''(_/--'  `-'\_) fL	a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-.  Meow!

If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity
of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA