OK, so for us domain users, the first time we start a login shell after a reboot, the shell can't set our $HOME correctly and we get an error message. The second and subsequent times, there's no error. Other events such as installing openssh may also cause the problem one time.
The way I figure it, since the error happens in the first login shell but not the second, the first shell must be changing something in a file somewhere that fixes the problem for later shells. To find out what file that might be, here's what I did: 1. Rebooted. 2. Started a Cygwin 1.5 shell, and ran 'touch /tmp/timestamp'. 3. Started a Cygwin 1.7 login shell, and got the error message. 4. Went back to Cygwin 1.5, and ran $ find /win/c/cygwin-1.7 -newer /tmp/timestamp /win/c/cygwin-1.7/tmp /win/c/cygwin-1.7/var/log/wtmp /win/c/cygwin-1.7/var/run/utmp So, it seems that the first login shell is updating one or more of /tmp, /var/log/wtmp, and/or /var/run/utmp in a way that fixes the problem for later shells. And so the cause of the problem would seem to lie in one of those files. Not rock solid, but maybe useful? A. -- 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/
