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Aaron Humphrey wrote: > So, in the end, reinstalling didn't do much. And I got a bunch of > "Cannot open (null) for reading" (error not guaranteed to be > accurate), usually when it was trying to install gzipped man pages or > something. (Times like these I wonder why I persist in downloading > every cygwin package on the mirror when I use only a fraction of them. > Compulsive behaviour, I guess.) Perhaps there is something interesting to be found in setup.log.full. My impression is that you were installing from the Internet rather than downloading and then installing. Is that right? > In any case, I was able to fix the problem by recreating /etc/profile > from /etc/skel. Why /etc/profile got trashed by the upgrade to 1.7, I > don't know, but apparently it did. So now I once again have PATH > initialized properly and my bash prompt looks normal. Was there an '/etc/profile' file in any form before you recreated it? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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