Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:42:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Alex Vinokur cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: startup problem // no longer works // profile not called In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1098655354.9421.ezmlm@cygwin.com> <200410250937.34058.d_baron@012.net.il> <417CBF56.E5BD31C0@dessent.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote: > "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote: > [snip] > > > It seems that I got rid of problem "bash: kpsexpand: command not found". > > > > Great. So it was simply a missing dependency problem. > > I don't understand how the problem has been resolved. Some script inserted by lilypond into the login script path (presumably /etc/profile.d/lilypond-profile.sh) contained an invocation of kpsexpand. Since kpsexpand is part of the tetex-bin package, installing tetex-bin got rid of the "not found" message. > > > However, > > > $ find /etc/postinstall -name \*.done | sed 's/\.done$//' | xargs cygcheck -f | uniq > postinstall.txt // Attached > > > postinstall.txt contains a lot of files. Is it correct? > > > > Sure it is. The above command simply lists all the packages installed on > > your machine that have postinstall scripts -- nothing wrong with having > > them. The reason I asked you to get this information initially was that > > because of your screwed up mounts the postinstall scripts may not have run > > properly, and reinstalling the packages was one way of getting them to > > re-run, so this showed which packages to reinstall. > [snip] > > What do the postinstall scripts do? They do post-installation fix-up of package files (generate configuration, conditionally add symlinks, do installation-specific stuff). > Who (and when) invokes them? setup.exe, after installing all the packages. There are also preremove scripts that are run before the corresponding packages are removed. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- 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/