Solution is to reinstall 'base-files' (see http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00222.html).
My PATH was appended with '.' because of a trailing ';' in my Windows PATH. Thank you. -- jt On 2/6/06, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I upgrade to 1.5.19-4 and my default PATH has changed: > > > > PATH is "inherited" from my WinXP environment as usual but it is not > > prepend with "/bin" like before the upgrade, and is now appended with > > ".". > > I cannot find where this happen (my .bashrc is unchanged). > > Try opening a cmd.com window in c:\cygwin\bin (or whatever > it is named), then running 'bash --login -xv' to see every command > executed by bash during startup. Maybe that will help you > pinpoint the culprit. > > > > > Also, when I start cygwin (shell in rxvt), it throws me in "/usr/bin" > > (which is a mount of "/bin") instead of my usual "~/". > > Sounds like it might be a problem with $HOME, such that > bash does not know where to find your ~/.bashrc. > > > > > I can fix all this by hand in my .bashrc but I want to have a clean > > fix (avoid cygwin to do the bad job at the first place). > > Can someone tell me where to look at? > > > > Note: the upgrade also updated coreutils, readline and other minor stuff. > > Perhaps you also upgraded base-files, and maybe something > in there was the culprit? > > Hint: following these directions is a great help to debugging: > > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > > -- > Eric Blake > volunteer cygwin bash maintainer > -- Julien
