X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B3264B6.3010001@veritech.com> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:43:02 -0500 From: "Lee D. Rothstein" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.7.1: Mintty/bash window start: -bash: regtool: command not found References: <4B31DB5D.20501@veritech.com> <416096c60912230215m5ea84a07hc97fe225c8db3208@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <416096c60912230215m5ea84a07hc97fe225c8db3208@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/12/23 Lee D. Rothstein: > >> Just installed 1.7.1. Bravo, again. >> >> Everything seems to be working okay, but every time I start up a Mintty/Bash >> window I get the following >> error message. >> >> -bash: regtool: command not found >> >> Shortcut is: >> >> C:\_0\bin\mintty.exe --icon=c:\_0\cygicons-hippo-vista-0.dll,10 - >> >> 'regtool' does not appear in my profile nor my bashrc. >> >> Huh? >> > > There's a regtool call in /etc/profile: > > PRINTER="`regtool -q get '\user\Software\Microsoft\Windows > NT\CurrentVersion\Window\Device' | sed 's/,.*$//'`" > > I can reproduce this as follows: > > - Leave a Cygwin session open. > - Run setup.exe > - Select reinstall for cygwin-1.7.1-1. > - Click next > - "in-use files detected" appears > - Click retry. > > Strangely, 'retry' is accepted even without closing all Cygwin > processes. But it doesn't seem to make a difference to the outcome > anyway: regtool and also mount and ps aren't installed. > > It can be fixed by reinstalling the cygwin package again, this time > without any Cygwin processes running. > > Thanks, Andy, this fixed the sucker! And too, regtool did get installed. Is this a setup bug? -- 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