1.7.5-1: a problem with mkgroup

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 4/20/2010 9:38 AM, Yuval Emek wrote:
> When invoking a cygwin bash shell window, I'm getting the following
> message:
> ***message begins***
> Your group is currently "mkgroup".  This indicates that neither
> your gid nor your pgsid (primary group associated with your SID)
> is in /etc/group.
>
> The /etc/group (and possibly /etc/passwd) files should be rebuilt.
> See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run
>
> mkpasswd -l [-d]>  /etc/passwd
> mkgroup  -l [-d]>  /etc/group
>
> Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users.
> ***message ends***
>
> An attempt to run mkgroup ends in:
> $ mkgroup
> SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18:
> mkgroup (101): [1355] The specified domain either does not exist or could
> not be contacted.

According to your cygcheck output says you have an old installation in
'd:\cygwin-old'.  If true, please remove this and then run:

   cygcheck --delete-orphaned-installation-keys

Then reinstall Cygwin in it's current location (just re-run "setup.exe"
and specify "Reinstall" for "All".  Your current installation is
incomplete, presumably because of some conflict with your "old"
installation.

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