X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: mwoehlke Subject: Re: bash 3.1.18 seems seriously broken Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:40:11 -0500 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <451AEBAE.6000703@cs.ucsd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: <451AEBAE.6000703@cs.ucsd.edu> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Larry Breyer wrote: > What changed from bash 3.1.17 to 3.1.18 ? Did you bother reading the ANNOUNCEMENT? > I blindly performed a cygwin update, rebooted, and attempted startx. > X came up OK but the terminals would not respond to keyboard input. > Looking at the output of startx it became apparent something was > seriously wrong with /bin/sh (/bin/bash). > > I got syntax errors on blank lines. > > I also found, by adding little debugging stuff, like 'ls $XAPPLRESDIR', > that the shell was quoting env variables. I was getting "no such file > or directory" on valid paths because the shell was including single > quotes around the path. At least that's what it looked like. > > Really odd. I solved the problem by reverting to bash 3.1.17. -- Matthew The hippo made me do it! What? What do you mean you can't see the hippo? -- 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/