On Dec 12 15:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 12 10:20, John Morrison wrote: > > 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. > > > [...] > > > 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. > > > [...] > > I don't think that has to do with the size of the /etc/passwd and > /etc/group files. Not sure if I can work on that before the christmas > break, though...
So far I'm not able to reproduce this. Every time I reboot, the shell comes up just fine. For testing purposes I created an /etc/group file of >28000 entries. I also switched my home directory by adding a fstab entry along the lines of "D:/home/corinna --> /home/corinna", but to no avail. I tested this on a Vista machine which is domain member of a 2K8 domain with a domain admin account with UAC enabled. I'll try later again on an XP machine. Is your account an admin account or a normal user account? I don't know but maybe that makes some difference. Maybe that goes without saying, but somebody actually debugging this who can reproduce this behaviour would be a great help... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
