X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4A1FFC47.1080606@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 11:16:23 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Upgrade to cygwin 1.7 seemed to trash bash profile, path References: <4A1C0ACB DOT 1030001 AT cygwin DOT com> <20090528230354 DOT GD25043 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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/