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RE: bash init failing on cygwin terminal launch
- From: "Rowe, Thomas" <rowet at ca dot metsci dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:40:41 -0800
- Subject: RE: bash init failing on cygwin terminal launch
>>> When I launch a cygwin terminal I see this line:
>>> : No such file or directoryand Settings/rowet/.bashrc
>>>
>>> Then I am dumped into a bash prompt where .bashrc hasn't been read
and I
>>> think the normal bash config stuff hasn't finished either. If I
type
>>> 'bash[return]' from this screwed-up login everything works fine.
>>>
>>> Obviously something is tripping up on the space in
%HOME%='C:\Documents
>>> and Settings\rowet'.
>>
>>
>> Maybe so, but you also got a CR lineending in there, which is why the
error
>> message wrote over itself in that characteristic way. You probably
edited
>> /etc/profile or one of the other scripts using
notepad/wordpad/similar.
>>
>> To figure out exactly where, open a cmd.exe shell, cd into your
cygwin bin
>> dir, and run "bash --login -i -x". You should be able to follow
what's
>> getting invoked when that way; then just run d2u on the offending
script.
>
> The tail of `bash --login -i -x` is:
> + cd '/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/rowet'
> + case `id -ng` in
> ++ id -ng
> ' . '/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/rowet/.bashrc
> : No such file or directory and Settings/rowet/.bashrc
>
> I cannot figure out the failing script from this. The `id -ng` stuff
is from the end of /etc/profile, so I guess /etc/profile gets through
OK. I ran dos2unix against /etc/profile and .bashrc to no effect.
>
Doh. Nevermind. dos2unix run against ~/.profile fixed the problem.
Thank you David Korn.
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