"Copying skeleton files." (redux?) & bash not exiting.

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

unsolicited wrote:
> Help with the below.
> 
> Please.
> 
> unsolicited wrote, On 1/07/08 1:20 AM:
>> No doubt these questions have been asked before. However I have not 
>> found the answer. If someone would kindly send me a link to the 
>> answers, I'd appreciate it.
>>
>> -----
>> <<<<<
>> C:\cygwin\bin> bash -l -i
>> Copying skeleton files.
>> These files are for the user to personalise
>> their cygwin experience.
>>
>> These will never be overwritten.
>>
>>
>> C:\cygwin\bin>
>> <<<<<
>>
>> What up?
>>
>> Background:
>>
>> I was using cygwin happily, but haven't for some time.
>>
>> Evidently, along the way, I set my XP HOME environment variable to 
>> I:\me, where I: is a mapped (non-local) network drive on all but 1 
>> computer. Local as in mapping to my own machine. Here 'net share 
>> Data=D:\Data', 'net use I: \\mymachine\data'.
>>
>> As per mailing list / google search, I have changed /etc/password 'me' 
>> line from /home/me to /cygdrive/i/me.
>>
>> But the above still happens.


Check out the bash man page, the INVOCATION section, for a list of
script files that are searched and invoked during bash start up.  Take
a look at what's in those.  If you have to, put 'set -x' in them to
see what's happening when they are invoked (or if they are invoked).
That might give you a clue.


>> (1) How do I have my home directory on a network share, so I get the 
>> same environment regardless of the machine I'm running cygwin on.
>>
>> [One list message indicates home directory in passwd is not paid 
>> attention to, so I tried deleting it, i.e. :: - same result.]
>>
>> If I 'set home=/home/me' before calling bash -l -i, things work as 
>> expected. If I only 'bash -i' things work as expected. Including the 
>> ability to cd /cygdrive/i/me. If I'm in that directory and call 'bash 
>> -i', my .bashrc runs.
>>
>>
>> (2) exit at $ hangs bash?
>>
>> bash-3.2$ exit {or Ctrl-D}
>> exit
>> _
>>
>> And that's it. bash hangs. I have to end process bash.
>>
>> Suggestions?


Did you start another process from this shell?  If not, perhaps
it's time we see your cygcheck output <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>
and a clear set of steps that reproduce the problem.


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