X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,SPF_NEUTRAL,TW_CG,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4BE01161.10509@cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 08:21:53 -0400 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrey Repin Subject: Re: [PMX:#] Re: "Error opening terminal: cygwin." when attempting to start lynx References: <545472025.20100501114001@mtu-net.ru> <20100501080821.GA3809@ghost.local.lan> <20100501160824.GA21508@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <925535189.20100501203918@mtu-net.ru> <20100501165357.GA21753@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4BDC64A1.2000003@cornell.edu> <811213036.20100501232358@mtu-net.ru> <4BDEBDF7.4000903@cornell.edu> <15179_1272972917_1272972917_158170194.20100504153134@mtu-net.ru> In-Reply-To: <15179_1272972917_1272972917_158170194.20100504153134@mtu-net.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 On 5/4/2010 7:31 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Ken Brown! > >>> But I've tried to move Cygwin folders earlier in Path... >>> >>> [C:\]$set PATH&& lynx >>> C:/bin;C:/usr/sbin;C:\WINDOWS/system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS/System32/Wbem;C:/usr/4nt;C:/usr/Delphi/vbroker/bin;C:/usr/Delphi7/Bin >>> ;C:/usr/Delphi7/Projects/Bpl;C:/usr/sbin/svn-win32/bin;C:/PROGRA~1/WINRAR;C:/usr/ARH/7ZIP;C:/Program Files/Java/jre6/bin;C:/usr/ut >>> il;C:/DRWEB;C:/USR/BP/BIN;C:/d/REINST/ROOT/DOOM;C:/d/REINST/ROOT/UTIL;C:/usr/ARH;C:/USR/VP21/BIN.W32 > >> Your path indicates that you have a lot of non-cygwin software inside >> your cygwin installation (under C:/usr). That seems like a bad idea to me. > > Wasn't an issue to now, not to mention, it's not installed in cygwin folders, > rather, in their own places. It's just easier for me to keep track of all > tools I need to migrate when reinstalling system. > >>> Error opening terminal: cygwin. >>> >>> [C:\]$ >>> >>> And the same when trying to start it from bash command prompt: >>> >>> bash-3.2$ lynx >>> Error opening terminal: cygwin. >>> bash-3.2$ >>> >>> Meh... Any good idea what to delete in attempt to fix this? > >> As cgf said, maybe you aren't running cygwin's lynx. Did you install >> cygwin's lynx package? What does 'cygcheck -c lynx' show? What does >> 'which lynx' show? > > Surprized... It show nothing, although the setup.exe states that lynx 2.8.5-4 > is installed. > And only lynx that could be installed is a Cygwin one, i'm not using any other > unix tools packages. > I think it's the time to reinstall it all... yet again... > I just did it when 1.7 came out, but seems it wasn't enough. Since you're having problems, wouldn't it make sense to do a standard installation in C:/cygwin? Ken -- 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