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Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit


On 10/1/2012 1:32 PM, Adam Kessel wrote:
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:
In a standard Cygwin install, the script
/etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh runs 'mkpasswd -l -c >
/etc/passwd', which sets the home directory for each user.  Normally this is
/home/username, but you can check it by looking at /etc/passwd.  Then the
first time you start a shell, /etc/profile creates the home directory (as
specified in /etc/passwd) if it doesn't exist.  This assumes that HOME is
not set in the Windows environment.  Are you seeing something different?

Yes. I just installed from scratch -- download setup.exe and specify a new directory for install; then installed only bash and its prerequisites. When I run the default cygwin.bat in the new directory, I get:

bash-4.1$ pwd
/usr/bin
bash-4.1$ echo $HOME
/home/avk
bash-4.1$ cd
bash: cd: /home/avk: No such file or directory

So it appears that /etc/profile is not being run, since it would give you the message "/home/avk could not be created" if it tried and failed to create /home/avk. Also, it would set PS1, giving you a different prompt than the one above. I don't know what might cause /etc/profile to fail to run.


BTW, cygwin.bat is no longer the recommended way to start a Cygwin shell. If you ask setup.exe to create a shortcut, it will create one that starts mintty. But I doubt if this is related to your problem.

Two people in this thread have suggested that you check for BLODA, but you haven't responded to that. Also, you haven't yet attached cygcheck output as requested at

http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Ken

Ken


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