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From: ericblake AT comcast DOT net (Eric Blake)
To: Rolf Maier <maier AT crewes DOT org>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: man, info fail me in cygwin 1.5.18
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 14:12:55 +0000
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> Hello,
>     I upgraded cygwin to 1.5.18(0.132/4/2) 2005-07-02 20:30 i686.
> If I type 'man man' I get
> 
> Error executing formatting or display command.
> System command (cd "/usr/share/man" && (echo ".ll 7.2i"; echo ".nr LL 
> 7.2i"; echo ".pl 1100i"; /usr/bin/cat '/usr/share/man/man1/man.1'; echo 
> ".\\\""; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -c 
> -mandoc 2>/dev/null | /usr/bin/less -isrR) exited with status 127.
> No manual entry for man

Something in your installation failed, and you no longer have
a working /bin/sh (did it ask you to reboot, because in-use files
were replaced?)  At any rate, the solution is to rerun setup.exe,
and select bash for reinstallation, or to manually run
/etc/postinstall/00bash.sh.done.

> Not Found: sh

--
Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin bash maintainer



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