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RE: strange install problems
- From: Erik Weibust <eweibust at yahoo dot com>
- To: Dave Korn <dk at artimi dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 07:10:57 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: RE: strange install problems
Dave,
Where might those ENV settings be hiding? Any ideas?
I followed the uninstall instructions exactly.
Erik
--- Dave Korn <dk@artimi.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Erik Weibust
> > Sent: 01 April 2004 15:32
>
> > I'm not sure what or why it's trying to do with an
> h:
> > drive. I have a local c and d drive, and I have i
> and
> > s network drives, and a z samba mount. I did have
> an
> > h drive in the past, but with the "uninstall" I
> > performed I don't know why it would be a problem
> now.
> > Any ideas?
>
> Because it's still referred to in an environment
> variable somewhere?
>
> > Also, I didn't see a /home/$USER ? Could this be
> > because of the problems I listed above?
>
> It couldn't create the /etc/group or /etc/passwd
> files, because for some
> reason it was trying to do so on the non-existent H
> drive; this in turn
> means that cygwin's notion of what your username
> and/or group are must be in
> a mess; it also suggests that you've got an
> environment variable which
> cygwin is importing and trying to use to set as your
> home directory or
> something.
>
>
> cheers,
> DaveK
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