Open the Cygwin Terminal properties (by right click on the icon and go to properties) check the path of ‘mintty’. If everything looks right and it is still giving error, change the ‘mintty’ to ‘mintty.exe’. This solved my problem.
Starting with Cygwin 1.7.34, the recommended way to do this is to add a custom db_home setting to /etc/nsswitch.conf. A common wish when doing this is to make your Cygwin home directory equal to your Windows user profile directory. This setting will do that: Or, equivalently: You need to use the latter form if you … Read more