Re: Upgrade to cygwin 1.7 seemed to trash bash profile, path

2009-05-29 Thread Aaron Humphrey
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Larry Hall wrote: > 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.

RE: Upgrade to cygwin 1.7 seemed to trash bash profile, path

2009-05-29 Thread Karl M
> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 10:56:03 -0400 > From: kbrown > Subject: Re: Upgrade to cygwin 1.7 seemed to trash bash profile, path > > On 5/28/2009 7:03 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I'm not really following this discussion closely but there should not, >> by defa

Re: Upgrade to cygwin 1.7 seemed to trash bash profile, path

2009-05-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
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 cyg

Re: Upgrade to cygwin 1.7 seemed to trash bash profile, path

2009-05-29 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/28/2009 7:03 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'm not really following this discussion closely but there should not, by default, be any entries for /usr/lib or /usr/bin in your /etc/fstab file. I've actually come across one situation where things don't work right if those lines are missing.

Re: Upgrade to cygwin 1.7 seemed to trash bash profile, path

2009-05-28 Thread Aaron Humphrey
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 mirro

Re: Upgrade to cygwin 1.7 seemed to trash bash profile, path

2009-05-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 03:37:39PM -0600, Aaron Humphrey wrote: >On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Karl M wrote: >> >>> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 21:26:36 -0600 >>> Subject: Re: Upgrade to cygwin 1.7 seemed to trash bash profile, path >>> From: alfvaen >>>

Re: Upgrade to cygwin 1.7 seemed to trash bash profile, path

2009-05-28 Thread Aaron Humphrey
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Karl M wrote: > >> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 21:26:36 -0600 >> Subject: Re: Upgrade to cygwin 1.7 seemed to trash bash profile, path >> From: alfvaen >> >>>> You seem to be missing '/usr/bin' and '/usr/lib'

RE: Upgrade to cygwin 1.7 seemed to trash bash profile, path

2009-05-27 Thread Karl M
> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 21:26:36 -0600 > Subject: Re: Upgrade to cygwin 1.7 seemed to trash bash profile, path > From: alfvaen > >>> You seem to be missing '/usr/bin' and '/usr/lib'. There was talk about >>> some of this changing though in my up-

Re: Upgrade to cygwin 1.7 seemed to trash bash profile, path

2009-05-27 Thread Aaron Humphrey
>> You seem to be missing '/usr/bin' and '/usr/lib'. There was talk about >> some of this changing though in my up-to-date installation, I still have >> them so I'm not sure where this stands. In any case, it suggests that >> you may want to try add the following to your '/etc/fstab' file: >> >> c:

RE: Upgrade to cygwin 1.7 seemed to trash bash profile, path

2009-05-26 Thread Karl M
> Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 11:29:15 -0400 > From: lh > Subject: Re: Upgrade to cygwin 1.7 seemed to trash bash profile, path > > Aaron Humphrey wrote: >> I've been having some intermittent problems lately with screen >> hanging, when it hasn't before. This is on

Re: Upgrade to cygwin 1.7 seemed to trash bash profile, path

2009-05-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Aaron Humphrey wrote: I've been having some intermittent problems lately with screen hanging, when it hasn't before. This is on my home computer, which was still running 1.5.25, and I've been using screen on 1.7 without event on my work computer, so I decided to upgrade at home. I downloaded se