upgrade to 1.7 experience ; Cygwin.bat doesn't find home directory

Thu Dec 24 07:56:00 GMT 2009

It appears that bash not finding the home directory is caused by a missing /etc/profile. I copied over this file from a 1.5 system and now bash finds my profile and .bashrc. 
Is this a bug or by design ? 
 imaging away / flick
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Sorry for the crappy formatting on my first post - this should be easier to read. 
I just upgraded my first XP Pro machine from 1.5 to 1.7 - a couple of minor issues
Part of the post-install failed with many popup dialogs - "The procedure entry point __ctype_ptr__ could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll". 
After a reboot bash wouldn't start - same error message. Reinstalling the base package cleared this issue up. 
Cygwin.bat doesn't find my home directory (which is a sym link) rathe it prints a message telling me that there
 isn't a ./.bashrc in /usr/bin. Looks like Cygwin.bat is identical between 1.5 and 1.7 but the behavior is 
different. I thought this might be related to the mount point changes - but running copy-user-registry-fstab
 didn't change anything. I did notice that this script uses $USER which isn't set for me. I set it and re-ran the
 script but I don't see any difference. I never did see a /etc/fstab.d/$USER directory - but I don't have user 
mount points on this machine. I also created a none sym link home directory but that didn't help either.

Are other folks seeing this behavior ? Any suggestions ?
imaging away / flick

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