X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090528230354.GD25043@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> References: <4A1C0ACB.1030001@cygwin.com> <20090528230354.GD25043@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 22:59:02 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Upgrade to cygwin 1.7 seemed to trash bash profile, path From: Aaron Humphrey To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 So, in the end, reinstalling didn't do much. And I got a bunch of "Cannot open (null) for reading" (error not guaranteed to be accurate), usually when it was trying to install gzipped man pages or something. (Times like these I wonder why I persist in downloading every cygwin package on the mirror when I use only a fraction of them. Compulsive behaviour, I guess.) In any case, I was able to fix the problem by recreating /etc/profile from /etc/skel. Why /etc/profile got trashed by the upgrade to 1.7, I don't know, but apparently it did. So now I once again have PATH initialized properly and my bash prompt looks normal. -- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ ) Current Song--Buddy:Sugar Girl Current Book--Carol Berg:Transformation If this sentence were in Chinese, it would say something else. -- 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/