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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Bug Report: python os.popen seems to have recently been broken
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 16:59:44 +0100
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----Original Message----
>From: Nick Burch
>Sent: 08 August 2005 15:13

> On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Dave Korn wrote:

>> I reckon you probably got bitten by the recent sh/ash/bash transition
>> problems.  You could post your cygcheck output as described at
>> http://cygwin.com/problems.html if you want us to take a looksee, or you
>> could just try re-runiong setup.exe and making sure you're up-to-date
>> with the latest shell packages.
> 
> The first thing I tried was running setup.exe. It didn't find any packages
> in need of being updated :(
> 
> The fact that you have the same version of python and it does work for you
> makes me think it must be related to my setup. I've included a copy of the
> output of cygcheck in case there's anything obvious in there

  Absolutely:

>Not Found: sh

  That'll be it.  All system (...) calls are critically dependent on sh
existing and being runnable!  Re-run setup and select 'Reinstall' for bash,
or manually run the postinstall script, or just "cp /bin/bash.exe
/bin/sh.exe", then have another go....


    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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