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Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 10:55:40AM -0700, Jerry DeLisle wrote: >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >> --- snip --- >>>> I will try the manual process you suggested after I figure out how to get the >>>> snapshot and when it is available. >> Bare in mind that I am using the broken environment to do this. > > The fact that I could duplicate the problem means that I'm in the same > state as you. > >> I managed to extract the snapshot and replace the cygwin1.dll while not >> running any cygwin apps. Restarting a shell seems to function as >> before, uninitialized. >> >> I then go to /etc/postinstall to find the scripts. They are all >> suffixed with .done. Are these the scripts I should attempt to run? > > Yes. > > You need to do something like: > > c: > cd \cygwin\etc > for %f in (*.done) do sh ./%f > OK, I have it fixed as follows: 1. Do clean install of cygwin-1.7 selecting bash one revision back. 2. Replace cygwin1.dll with the snapshot of today. 3. Start cygwin shell from desktop icon. 4. cd /etc/postinstall 5. PATH=/bin 6. for filename in ./*.done; do /bin/sh $filename; done; 7. exit 8. restart cygwin shell from desktop icon, all appears well. Thanks Christopher and Dave for your help. Best regards, Jerry -- 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
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