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Re: No go after update to 1.7.1
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Bernd Bartmann wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Christopher Faylor
> <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
>> I'd suggest at this point that you run sysinternals procmon to see if
>> you can figure out why bash isn't starting. ?You might also try running
>> with a trimmed down PATH.
>
> Setting the PATH to C:\cygwin\bin only doesn't help either. So I tried
> procmon to monitor what bash is actually doing. As it seems it stops
> because it can't find /etc/passwd and /etc/fstab which indeed are
> missing. Shouldn't they have been created during the setup process?
> Also, /etc does not contain any files just some sub-directories:
>
> alternatives
> defaults
> fonts
> postinstall
> preremove
> profile.d
> setup
> terminfo
>
> I've attached the procmon log for the bash start test in .csv format
> for your inspection. Maybe also of interest is /var/log/setup.log.
No one? No more ideas?
Best regards,
Bernd.
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