Re: Cygwin 1.7 domains and home directories

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:26:03AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>OK, so for us domain users, the first time we start a login shell after a
>reboot, the shell can't set our $HOME correctly and we get an error message. The
>second and subsequent times, there's no error.  Other events such as installing
>openssh may also cause the problem one time.
>
>The way I figure it, since the error happens in the first login shell but not
>the second, the first shell must be changing something in a file somewhere that
>fixes the problem for later shells.  To find out what file that might be, here's
>what I did:
>
>1. Rebooted.
>2. Started a Cygwin 1.5 shell, and ran 'touch /tmp/timestamp'.
>3. Started a Cygwin 1.7 login shell, and got the error message.
>4. Went back to Cygwin 1.5, and ran
>
>$ find /win/c/cygwin-1.7 -newer /tmp/timestamp
>/win/c/cygwin-1.7/tmp
>/win/c/cygwin-1.7/var/log/wtmp
>/win/c/cygwin-1.7/var/run/utmp
>
>So, it seems that the first login shell is updating one or more of /tmp,
>/var/log/wtmp, and/or /var/run/utmp in a way that fixes the problem for later
>shells.  And so the cause of the problem would seem to lie in one of those
>files.
>
>Not rock solid, but maybe useful?

I don't think anything should rely on any of those but couldn't you
backup the files before starting a 1.7 shell and then restore them to
see if you can reproduce the problem at will?

cgf

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