On Thu, December 11, 2008 5:42 pm, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> Now, *sometimes* when I >> start cygwin (via the standard batch file) I get ~ to be my >> "c:\Documents >> and Settings\[user]\" and othertimes it all works and ~ is /home/morrijr >> which is mounted to "d:\Wrkfile". I've not be able to workout when or >> why. >> >> When it doesn't honor the path in my passwd file it also comes up with >> the >> >> "Your group is currently "mkpasswd". This indicates that >> the /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) 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. > > John, thanks for reporting this. I also have this problem in Cygwin 1.7, > ever since I installed it. The problem does not occur in Cygwin 1.5. > >> Note that the group file is *very* big (IMO) 6505 entries! There's only >> local users and my domain account in my passwd file (16 entries). > > I am also in a domain. There are 20,300 entries in /etc/passwd, and > 22,269 in /etc/group. > >> Can anyone suggest anything I can try either to fix or more reliably >> reproduce the problem? > > Here's what I've been able to figure out about it: > > The error happens the first time I open a Cygwin 1.7 console after each > reboot. > On the 2nd and subsequent times after a reboot, bash starts without error > and finds my correct $HOME. I can log out and log back in, and the next > console will open without error. Reboot, start a console, and I get the > error again. > > Does that also happen to you? A clue for sure, though I have no idea > where it's pointing.
Agreed, it happens the first run, but, I just updated my OpenSsh package and *that* broke it once. Close the broken terminal and launch another and no problems... However reinstalling OpenSsh doesn't result in a broken terminal. :( J. PS, sorry Andrew for sending the first just to you! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
