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From: "Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn-cygwin@exposure.org.uk>
To: "cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>, "Val Schmidt" <vschmidt@ldeo.columbia.edu>
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Subject: Re: Re: upgrading broke cygwin?
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 17:20:16 -0000
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> I upgraded to the 1.3.20-1 version dll today and saw very similar and
> strange behavior.  Some things wouldn't execute due to permissions errors,
> and other would execute from commandline but not from a script.  What
causes
> this, I don't know.
>
> I ran setup.exe again, found the "base" cygwin install, cycled through the
> keep/uninstall/revert until 1.9-19 version came up, and installed the
older
> version.  Everything seems to be working fine now.
>
> I wish I could help with what's broke, but I don't have a clue.
>
> There's a recent remark in the list that's there's no way to uninstall -
the
> procedure above seems to work just fine.

What is the output of `ls -al /path/to/your/homedir' . I'm thinking that it
will contain eother mkpasswd or mkgroup.


Regards,

Elfyn McBratney
elfyn@exposure.org.uk
www.exposure.org.uk


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