RE: Cygwin broken after update (PATH problem?)
> One thing to try would be temporarily adding a text mount for /etc and > seeing if it helps. Sorry, what exactly does it mean "to add a *text* mount"? Ronald -- Ronald Fischer (phone +49-89-63676431) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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/
RE: Cygwin broken after update (PATH problem?)
> >> Your /etc/profile has DOS-style CRLF line endings. > > > > Well, the problem is that there *is* no /etc/profile at all. > > Well, that tells us two things: > > 1) Setup must have failed part-way through. Normally > re-running it, with > "Install from local package directory", and clicking through > all the default > options, and letting it run to completion should fix any > problems, but I see > you tried that already. Hmm. No, I run setup again from the *website*. But I think this must be even more safer than just doing it locally. > >> You will, I'm sure, not have updated your version of > bash without reading > >> the relevant release announcement, > > > > What type of announcement? > > The release announcements, that are posted to the > cygwin-announce list as > well as to the main cygwin list, every time that a cygwin > package is updated. > Weren't you curious about what updates you were going to get > and in what way > they would be different from what you already had installed? Honestly, no, not at all. Yes, this makes me an ignorant, but the main reason I went to redo the setup, was that I wanted to install a new package, and when doing this I thought it might be a good idea to update everything, to get the most recent bug fixes and so on. So I wasn't that interested in new features. > This one: > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-09/msg6.html > > seems to explain at least part of your problem: self-overwriting error > messages are a sign of CRLF line-ends. I see. Indeed I did modify the profile, and although I normally take care about the line endings (the editor is set to keep line endings style), it might be that I also had used on one occasion a different editor which did not observe this policy. Not very likely, but I don't want to rule out this possibility. But this would not explain why the /etc/profile got *erased*. However, the announcement says that one should not have bash running while doing the setup. I think I did have a cygwin window open, running zsh on top of bash. > > I went to http://cygwin.com/ (on this > > page, there is definitely no "release announcement" to see), > > Not all the documentation at the cygwin.com website is on > the front page. > It wouldn't all fit. You're expected to have browsed the > docs, faq and > mailing-list summaries of your own accord. (The fact that you're here > suggests you /did/ read the mailing-list summary page...) Yes, I misunderstood you here. I thought you wanted to suggest that the announcements of the most recent release were supposed to be always published on the front page (or at least represented via a direct link, as it is the case on some other software homepages). > > So it seems that setup did > not overwrite, > > but delete it, which is really kind of strange. > > Yep, it's absolutely not meant to do that. Which means > that something went > badly wrong, but it's a bit hard to guess what. > > If setup.exe doesn't repair the system for you, you can get > a fresh copy of > /etc/profile out of /etc/defaults/etc. Thank you, I will try it. Ronald -- Ronald Fischer (phone +49-89-63676431) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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/
RE: Cygwin broken after update (PATH problem?)
> -Original Message- > From: Dave Korn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 11:36 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: Cygwin broken after update (PATH problem?) > > On 19 October 2006 09:13, Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3 wrote: > > >> No such file or directory > >> No such file or directory > >> command not found > >> command not found > > > > Your /etc/profile has DOS-style CRLF line endings. Well, the problem is that there *is* no /etc/profile at all. Here is the content of my etc: Volume in drive C is System Volume Serial Number is 84E7-BD21 Directory of C:\cygwin\etc 17.10.2006 12:22 . 17.10.2006 12:22 .. 22.08.2003 18:12 2.557 a2ps-site.cfg 22.08.2003 18:1215.071 a2ps.cfg 17.10.2006 12:18 alternatives 03.03.2006 06:08 215.739 bash_completion 17.10.2006 12:18 bash_completion.d 08.02.2003 12:36 1.356 csh.cshrc 09.10.2003 16:49 404 csh.login 17.10.2006 12:18 defaults 26.11.2005 08:07 4.839 enscript.cfg 17.10.2006 12:18 fonts 21.10.2005 10:05 770 group 21.10.2005 08:07 479 hosts.lnk 21.10.2005 10:36 139.967 lynx.cfg 22.05.2005 09:17 1.898 mime.types 22.05.2005 09:1787.414 Muttrc 21.10.2005 08:07 495 networks.lnk 21.10.2005 08:07 1.691 passwd 19.10.2006 09:33 postinstall 17.10.2006 12:24 preremove 17.10.2006 12:24 profile.d 21.10.2005 08:07 495 protocols.lnk 21.10.2005 08:07 495 services.lnk 19.10.2006 09:33 setup 17.10.2006 12:18 skel 17.10.2006 12:22 ssmtp 21.04.2005 22:3713.717 termcap 16.11.2005 20:56 4.224 wgetrc 17.10.2006 12:19 X11 17 File(s)491.611 bytes 13 Dir(s) 9.771.290.624 bytes free > You will, I'm sure, not have updated your version of bash > without reading > the relevant release announcement, What type of announcement? I went to http://cygwin.com/ (on this page, there is definitely no "release announcement" to see), then clicked on "install or update", which executed setup, then I got a list of possible packages (in which I added a few), and let it run. Isn't this the way an update is supposed to be done? > It won't overwrite a locally-modified /etc/profile, that's > deliberate. And it is a good thing to do. So it seems that setup did not overwrite, but delete it, which is really kind of strange. Ronald -- Ronald Fischer (phone +49-89-63676431) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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/
Cygwin broken after update (PATH problem?)
I had used Cygwin happily for many month. Now I wanted to update it and it does not work anymore. For example, when I click on the Cygwin Icon to start a bash shell, it first displays the error messages : No such file or directory : No such file or directory : command not found : command not found and then doesn't find any programs (i.e. I can't do a ls, cat, or whatsoever): bash-3.1$ ls bash: ls: command not found The programs *are* right there in C:\cygwin\bin, but an echo $PATH revealed that this directory is not in the PATH: bash-3.1$ echo $PATH /c/Program Files/CatPC/Bin:/c/Program Files/CatPC/Windows/System32:/c/WINNT/syst em32:/c/WINNT:/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem:/c/Program Files/Employee Services/:/c/Prog ram Files/IDM computer/UltraEdit10.10c:/c/Program Files/IXOS/bin:/c/SWS4/NTBIN bash-3.1$ I guess the PATH is supposed to be set in /etc/profile, but when I check C:\cygwin\etc, there is no profile. Interestingly, csh.cshrc and csh.login *are* there. Here is how I had performed the cygwin update: First I reloaded setup.exe from the Cygwin website, to get the most recent version of setup. Then I executed setup. When setup asked me where to put the cygwin directory etc., I always kept the default values. After I had observed that my bash doesn't work anymore, I repeated the setup, to give it a chance to cleanup any inconsistencies, but it didn't change anything. Ronald -- Ronald Fischer (phone +49-89-63676431) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cygcheck.out Description: cygcheck.out -- 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/
RE: zsh as login shell
> Use mkzsh to do this. For help, type 'mkzsh --help' Thank you, this is exactly what I was looking for. > > It works kind of, but I can't get zsh executed as login > shell. The BAT > > file invoking the bash login shell calls bash using > > > > bash --login -i > > See the '-l' option of zsh in the manpages. Thank you, this works equally well. I had searched the manpages for this option, but overlooked it... Ronald -- 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/
RE: zsh as login shell
> What about editing /etc/passwd? Pesonally, I use customized > cygwin.bat. How exactly would this work? After all, we are talking about Windows Batch skripts, don't we? And they are not aware of /etc/passwd. But maybe I didn't get your point. How do you suggest that I should modify my /etc/passwd? Ronald -- 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/
zsh as login shell
I would like to have on my Windoze desktop an Icon for zsh running under Cygwin, similar to the standard Cygwin Icon which runs a bash login shell, so that I can choose whether to get a window using bash or using zsh. It works kind of, but I can't get zsh executed as login shell. The BAT file invoking the bash login shell calls bash using bash --login -i but zsh has no equivalent to the --login option, so I just use zsh -i which makes the shell interactive, but not login. Zsh considers itself a login shell iff it is called under a name starting with a dash. Is there an elegant solution to this problem? Of course I could cp -- zsh -zsh and call -zsh, but I would have then to redo this everytime I update zsh to a newer version. Another possibility would be to execute a shell script using bash and in this script do an exec -a -zsh zsh -I But maybe someone knows a better way to do this? Ronald -- Ronald Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 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/
