Re: Win7 system update hosed something in Cygwin

2019-08-19 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, L A Walsh! > On 2019/08/15 18:28, David Karr wrote: >> I logged into my Win7 laptop and I saw it was having some connection >> problems, so I decided to reboot. >> >> After the reboot I found that Cygwin had some basic problems. I brought up >> a mintty window

Re: Win7 system update hosed something in Cygwin

2019-08-17 Thread L A Walsh
On 2019/08/16 18:44, David Karr wrote: > > > I would most like to understand what changed to make this suddenly > start happening. You really need to read the cygwin section on nt-security. in the user manual @ https://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html. If

Re: Win7 system update hosed something in Cygwin

2019-08-17 Thread Achim Gratz
L A Walsh writes: > If you don't have /etc/passwd or /etc/group, cygwin will generate > DOMAIN+USER entries dynamically each time you start cygwin (or per-boot) > if you have cygwin processes started at boot. This is wrong. Cygwin never "generates" those nor do they change, they are coming from

Re: Win7 system update hosed something in Cygwin

2019-08-16 Thread David Karr
On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 3:33 PM David Karr wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 2:17 PM L A Walsh wrote: > >> On 2019/08/15 18:28, David Karr wrote: >> > I logged into my Win7 laptop and I saw it was having some connection >> > problems, so I decided to reboot. >> > >> > After the reboot I found that

Re: Win7 system update hosed something in Cygwin

2019-08-16 Thread David Karr
On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 2:17 PM L A Walsh wrote: > On 2019/08/15 18:28, David Karr wrote: > > I logged into my Win7 laptop and I saw it was having some connection > > problems, so I decided to reboot. > > > > After the reboot I found that Cygwin had some basic problems. I brought > up > > a

Re: Win7 system update hosed something in Cygwin

2019-08-16 Thread David Karr
On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 2:20 PM Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, David Karr! > > >> > So, before this reboot, my Cygwin home directory has always been > >> > "/home/", which has always resided at > "c:\cygwin64\home\". > >> > After the reboot, my Cygwin home directory is "/", which appears to >

Re: Win7 system update hosed something in Cygwin

2019-08-16 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, David Karr! >> > So, before this reboot, my Cygwin home directory has always been >> > "/home/", which has always resided at "c:\cygwin64\home\". >> > After the reboot, my Cygwin home directory is "/", which appears to >> > translate to "c:\cygwin64" (from "cygpath -w /"). However,

Re: Win7 system update hosed something in Cygwin

2019-08-16 Thread L A Walsh
On 2019/08/15 18:28, David Karr wrote: > I logged into my Win7 laptop and I saw it was having some connection > problems, so I decided to reboot. > > After the reboot I found that Cygwin had some basic problems. I brought up > a mintty window (C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -e /bin/bash --login) and

Re: Win7 system update hosed something in Cygwin

2019-08-16 Thread Houder
On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 11:43:22, David Karr wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 7:58 AM Houder wrote: > > > On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 06:40:28, David Karr wrote: [snip] > > > Any other ideas? > > > > 1. cygcheck -srv? (include the compressed output to your reply) > > > > 2. getent passwd? (what home

Re: Win7 system update hosed something in Cygwin

2019-08-16 Thread David Karr
On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 11:22 AM Houder wrote: > On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 16:58:09, Houder wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 06:40:28, David Karr wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 2:01 AM Houder wrote: > > .. > > > > > > Please study /etc/profile where it says "here is how HOME is set" ... > > > > >

Re: Win7 system update hosed something in Cygwin

2019-08-16 Thread David Karr
On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 7:58 AM Houder wrote: > On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 06:40:28, David Karr wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 2:01 AM Houder wrote: > .. > > > > Please study /etc/profile where it says "here is how HOME is set" ... > > > > > > > Ok. This says: > > > > # 1) From existing HOME in

Re: Win7 system update hosed something in Cygwin

2019-08-16 Thread Houder
On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 16:58:09, Houder wrote: > On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 06:40:28, David Karr wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 2:01 AM Houder wrote: > .. > > > > Please study /etc/profile where it says "here is how HOME is set" ... > > > > > > > Ok. This says: > > > > # 1) From existing HOME in

Re: Win7 system update hosed something in Cygwin

2019-08-16 Thread Houder
On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 06:40:28, David Karr wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 2:01 AM Houder wrote: .. > > Please study /etc/profile where it says "here is how HOME is set" ... > > > > Ok. This says: > > # 1) From existing HOME in the Windows environment, translated to a > Posix path > # 2)

Re: Win7 system update hosed something in Cygwin

2019-08-16 Thread David Karr
On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 2:01 AM Houder wrote: > On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 18:28:09, David Karr wrote: > > I logged into my Win7 laptop and I saw it was having some connection > > problems, so I decided to reboot. > > > > After the reboot I found that Cygwin had some basic problems. I brought > up > >

Re: Win7 system update hosed something in Cygwin

2019-08-16 Thread Houder
On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 18:28:09, David Karr wrote: > I logged into my Win7 laptop and I saw it was having some connection > problems, so I decided to reboot. > > After the reboot I found that Cygwin had some basic problems. I brought up > a mintty window (C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -e /bin/bash

Win7 system update hosed something in Cygwin

2019-08-15 Thread David Karr
I logged into my Win7 laptop and I saw it was having some connection problems, so I decided to reboot. After the reboot I found that Cygwin had some basic problems. I brought up a mintty window (C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -e /bin/bash --login) and the prompt looked odd. It wasn't the PS1 value