Bash initialization w/cygwin-1.7 on NT4

[Jerry DeLisle]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 12:32:16AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 05:20:41AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>> Jerry DeLisle wrote:
>>>> I am making the switch to 1.7.  I started with a clean windows (nt4)
>>>> environment and went through the usual run of setup-1.7 downloaded today.
>>>>
>>>> All appears fine, but bash does not get initialized.
>>>>
>>>> pwd is /usr/bin
>>>>
>>>> path is not set
>>>>
>>>> home directory is not created
>>>>
>>>> These are all taken care of nicely for the user with cygwin 1.5
>>>>
>>>> I think this is a bug unless I am missing something in the install process.
>>> This is symptomatic of a problem preventing the postinstall scripts
>> >from having run correctly, isn't it?  Have a look in your
>>> /var/log/setup.log* files, and see what happened to
>>> base-files-profile.sh.
>> I can actually duplicate this problem on my NT4 virtual machine.
>> Unfortunately, I won't have a lot of time to track this down next
>> week but I'll get to it if no one else beats me to it.
> 
> I just checked in a fix for this.  It was a pretty embarrassing bug.
> For some reason, I had decided that it was ok not to check the error
> return value from an Nt* system call.  At least it was an easy fix.
> 
> For the curious, I debugged it by doing this:
> 
> set CYWGIN=error_start:gdb
> 
> When gdb popped up, the stack trace led me straight to the problem.
> 
> I am generating a new snapshot now but, given the nature of the problem,
> I'm not entirely sure how to suggest using the snapshot to fix the
> problem.  I guess one thing you could do is just rerun all of the
> post-install scripts after installing the snapshot cygwin1.dll.
> 

Maybe this warrants a cygwin1.dll release.

I will try the manual process you suggested after I figure out how to get the 
snapshot and when it is available.

Jerry


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