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Re: install bash-login problem
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael A Chase" <mchase@ix.netcom.com>
To: "Joel Bushart" <jdbushart@hotmail.com>; "Cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: install bash-login problem
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel Bushart" <jdbushart@hotmail.com>
> To: "Cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 08:29
> Subject: install bash-login problem
>
>
> > I stripped cygwin completely off my system, including registrary
systems.
> > Then reinstalled it from a fresh version of setup.exe
> >
> > get this error when I try login from cmd prompt.
> >
> > C:\>.\cygwin\bin\login
> > login: joel
> > Password:
> > No directory /home/Joel!
> > Logging in with home = "/".
> > Fanfare!!!
> > You are successfully logged in to this server!!!
> > 14 [main] -bash 2936 sync_with_child: child 3980(0x628) died before
> > initial
> > ization with status code 0x0
> > 35279 [main] -bash 2936 sync_with_child: *** child state waiting for
> > longjmp
> > bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
> > bash-2.05a$
>
> The correct way to get a bash prompt is the same as shown in
> c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat, start bash: bash --login -i
>
> You are not logging into UNIX, you are starting an alternate shell in
> Windows.
> --
My apologies I forgot to mention that that login error also occurs from the
cygwin.bat file when I double click it. :(
anywho, I thought that some greater minds than I may make some sense out of
it as bash seems to work fine but login fails. I'm not sure if cygwin or
login is in error.
thanks again,
Joel
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