After a reboot, I ran strace -o strace.txt c:\cygwin-1.7\bin\bash.exe --login
and observed the error in the shell that started. The strace output is at http://home.comcast.net/~aschulman2/cygwin-1.7/strace.txt.bz2 . Andrew. -- 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/