Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Sensitivity: Subject: Re: Cygwin Reinstall Failiure To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: From: "Arthur I Schwarz" Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:56:24 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii And here I thought that I was helping you. Just goes to show that 'pride goeth before the fall' and all that rot. You hit it. During my last install my setup.ini file shows that sh-util was installed and my setup.log file shows it was downloaded, but, it was never installed. The old sh-util's in /usr/bin were removed and nothing took it's place. I noticed that there was a weather change between the last time that sh-utils were installed and the current time, the compression used changed from gzip to bzip2. And I notice that I can't find sh-utils in my package list output from setup.exe. So (I need help) I've got some questions. [1] How do I know what I should have and should not have listed in the setup.exe package list? Is there any documentation on the required packages? [2] In what category should sh-utils be located (base?)? thanks art PS: I installed by hand - clever people these cygwin developers. elfyn-cygwin on 12/09/2002 06:39:19 PM Please respond to cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Arthur_I_Schwarz AT raytheon DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com cc: Subject: Re: Cygwin Reinstall Failiure Hi, I haven't noticed any problems apart from a small glitch when I installed the latest OpenSSL dist., which just needed a reboot to get ssh working. It's weird that something has deleted your id binary. Do you have the other sh-utils binaries? eg. pwd,sleep,stty,tee,uname,uptime? If you re-install your sh-utils package via the installer (http://cygwin.com/setup.exe) your problem shoud be fixed. Elfyn elfyn AT exposure DOT org DOT uk Original Message: ----------------- From: Arthur I Schwarz Arthur_I_Schwarz AT raytheon DOT com Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 17:00:48 -0800 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin Reinstall Failiure Apparently the latest code has some problems. I just did a 'passwd' and got a: 'passwd: unrecoverable error 1722' As reported, 'more' failed. I reinstalled a version of 'more' titled: more --version => 'less 374' from the March, 2002 release, and it worked. Previously at shell start, I was reported as 'Administrator'. I am now reported as 'unknown'. My /etc/profile script has: USER="`id -un`" The script is unchanged (by me). 'id' can not be found. Since I haven't ever changed this script then either profile was changed as part of the initial distribution or 'id' was removed? Any idea what happened? ('id' is described in 'Linux in a Nutshell', pub. O'Reilly.) Hard-coded: USER="" removes the 'id' error Hard-coded: HOME="" executes my ./bashrc (I am me) So the removal of 'id' seems to be my problem. Before I back up to the previous version, has anyone experienced problems with the current software (circa cygwin 1.3.17-1)? art -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/