hexedit install flub...now shell seems rudimentary

[Ken Brown]

On 2/18/2012 4:20 AM, Adrian Sandstrom wrote:
> Would love if someone could help me get me back to my cozy Cygwin terminal.
>
> Problem:
> When I use the cygwin shortcuts to cygwin.bat or mintty.exe I am
> getting a basic terminal.
> 1) The command prompt displays "-bash-4.1$" instead of
> "username@directory" like before.

It sounds like PS1 isn't being set.  This is normally done in 
/etc/profile.  You might start by comparing /etc/profile with 
/etc/defaults/etc/profile.  They should be identical unless you've 
customized /etc/profile at some point.

The postinstall script for the base-files package should have taken care 
of updating /etc/profile, so you could also check to make sure the 
script was executed.

Ken

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