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From: "Alex Vinokur" <alexvn AT connect DOT to>
Subject: Re: startup problem // no longer works // profile not called
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:30:31 +0200
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"Igor Pechtchanski" wrote in message news:Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 61 DOT 0410281021110 DOT 8902 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu...
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote:
[snip]
> > It seems that I got rid of problem "bash: kpsexpand: command not found".
>
> Great.  So it was simply a missing dependency problem.

I don't understand how the problem has been resolved.

>
> > However,
> > $ find /etc/postinstall -name \*.done | sed 's/\.done$//' | xargs cygcheck -f | uniq > postinstall.txt  // Attached
> > postinstall.txt  contains a lot of files. Is it correct?
>
> Sure it is.  The above command simply lists all the packages installed on
> your machine that have postinstall scripts -- nothing wrong with having
> them.  The reason I asked you to get this information initially was that
> because of your screwed up mounts the postinstall scripts may not have run
> properly, and reinstalling the packages was one way of getting them to
> re-run, so this showed which packages to reinstall.
[snip]

What do the postinstall scripts do?
Who (and when) invokes them?


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 Alex Vinokur
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