RE: new install problems

["Denny Figuerres" <denny at figuerres dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]
> On Behalf Of Alexander Gottwald
> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 6:33 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; denny@figuerres.com
> Subject: RE: new install problems
> 
> Denny Figuerres wrote:
> 
> > Some further testing shows that many of the .tiff files seem to be
> corrupt!
> >
> > When looking at the files in
> > C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\share\WindowMaker\Icons
> > With paintshoppro
> > Version 8
> >
> > Most of the .tiff files are duplicated with .xpm and or .png versions
> that
> > look identical. But several of the .tiff files show up as junk looks
> like
> > some where the images were edited or saved with bad data or a bad header
> ...
> 
> This was reported a long time ago but since these reports vanished I
> always
> thought the windowmaker maintainer has meanwhile fixed this.
> 
Nope, corrupt files, at least the ones I got the other day are.


> > Also it looks like changing the /etc/passwd file to make my HOME a
> simple
> > /home/user/
> > Fixes many of the problems....
> > It's not just the username having a space.... I think any folder name
> with a
> > space is causing problems. And the default it picks of "Documents and
> > settings"  gets parsed as
> > Documents
> > And
> > Settings
> 
> The space in any part of the path will cause problems. But as far as I can
> tell cygwin uses /home/$USERNAME as homedir except you set the environment
> variable yourself. So the common problem is a space in the username. $TMP
> may be a problem too since it points too "Documents and settings".
> 
By default cygwin put my windows user folders into the /etc/password file as
the default home folder for each login.
This was on Windows 2000 Pro and on XP Pro.

That was the root of 90% of the problem.... 

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>     ago
> 
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