Home directory not accessible but really there...

Tue Aug 27 20:37:00 GMT 2019

In summary:
1. Home directory is not accessible via: 'cd <return>' or 'cd ~' (it
 takes me to /tmp) and 'ls -al /home' shows my home directory as
 having corrupted permissions, UID and GID (all are ???)
2. Home directory is accessible and shows proper perms/UID/GID when I
 go there with the full path from /cygdrive/c
Specifically, 
After installing cygwin (using --noadmin flag), rebooting, and
launching a cygwin shell, I get the message:
 mkdir: cannot create directory '/home/myname': No such file or directory
 /home/myname could not be created.
 Setting HOME to /tmp
Then, if I go to /home and type:
 #ls -al
 ls: cannot access 'myname': No such file or directory
 total 4
 drwxrwxrwt+ 1 myname somegroup(513) 0 Aug 27 15:35 .
 drwx------+ 1 myname somegroup(513) 0 Aug 25 17:55 ..
 d?????????? ? ? ? ? ? myname
And, indeed from there, I can't ls/cd into the 'myname' home directory
- nor can I change the perms or uid/gid.
HOWEVER, if I go manually to the home directory using the full path
relative to C:, everything seems fine.
#cd /cygdrive/c/Users/myname/Desktop/cygwin/home
#ls -al
drwxrwxrwt+ 1 myname somegroup(513) 0 Aug 27 15:35 .
drwx------+ 1 myname somegroup(513) 0 Aug 25 17:55 ..
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 myname somegroup(513) 0 Aug 27 14:55 myname
And I can then ls/cd into the intact 'myname' home directory.
Note I don't have admin permission on this machine so I used
'cygwin-setup --no-admin' to install Cygwin.
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