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Re: Profile not called


"Brian Dessent" <brian@dessent.net> wrote in message 417CA9E1.3691F59F@dessent.net">news:417CA9E1.3691F59F@dessent.net...
> Alex Vinokur wrote:
>
> > HOME = `c:\Documents and Settings\Administrator'
>
> Your home directory has spaces in it.  THat's going to break some
> things.  See the users guide / FAQ.

It worked for a long time (more than 2 years).

>
> > C:\cygwin\_download\001            /                         system  textmode
> > C:\cygwin\_download\001/bin        /usr/bin                  system  textmode
> > C:\cygwin\_download\001/lib        /usr/lib                  system  textmode
> > C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts  system  binmode
> > .                                  /cygdrive                 system  textmode,cygdrive
>
> Your mounts are messed up.  I don't know what that "_download\001" dir
> is but I suspect that your / should be c:/cygwin, your /usr/bin should
> be c:/cygwin/bin and /usr/lib should be c:/cygwin/lib.  Either fix your
> mounts using "mount" and "umount" commands or rerun setup and point it
> at c:\cygwin to install.  Most everything is going to be broken until
> you fix this.
>
> Brian
>
It also worked for a long time.

Yesterday I downloaded and installed Cygwin updates. After that I have the problem.
Before that I had no problem.


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 Alex Vinokur
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