Re: install bash-login problem

["Michael A Chase" <mchase at ix dot netcom dot com>]

----- 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.
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