Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/10/28/09:34:22
>David Picton wrote:
>> I'd like to know whether other people have seen this problem. I did
a
>> new installation on a C disk and found that files were missing.
The
>> cause was a missing link - no /bin/sh. I did 'ln -s ash.exe sh.exe'
and
>> reinstalled the packages, and all was well.
> sh is meant to be bash these days. Check in /etc/postinstall and see
if
> it has 00bash.sh or 00bash.sh.done, and in either case, remove the
link > and (re-)run the script. (Make sure no other cygwin processes or
> services are running except for the one bash shell you're using to
> do this).
This worked - thanks! It's all very mysterious, though. 00ash.sh.done
and 00bash.sh.done are both there, and work OK when called from a
cygwin session - but they seem not to have worked during the install.
Could the cause be a problem with cygcheck?
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