On Sun, July 5, 2009 13:49, Jerry DeLisle wrote: > Fresh install still broken with backing down one rev on bash and using > libreadline6.
I ran into this Friday as others have noted. The thing that caught me was that the postinstall scripts in the installer rely on a working bash. Once I had a broken fresh cygwin install, simply backing down one rev of bash didn't help because the postinstall scripts of the OTHER packages that are already installed need to be re-run since they didn't run in the first place. Here's what I did (roughly) in order to get a working cygwin 1.7 installation: - Backup any data I wanted to keep under c:/cygwin/home/username - Removed c:/cygwin and all previously downloaded files by setup-1.7.exe - Launched setup-1.7.exe - Specify additional packages that I wanted to install - Changed the version of bash down to 3.2.49-22 - Added libreadline6 package - Now install the changes Regards, -Edward -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple