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Subject: Re: ls not working on cygwin install on XP
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I actually had the same problem just this week, but thought it was 
Windows Vista specific since I hadn't heard of it before.

For some reason the postinstall scripts aren't running correctly, but 
only sometimes. I know that I got lucky on my third reinstall after a 
couple of days of attempting to troubleshoot my installation. The 
packages are all being retrieved, and the directory structure is being 
created with the exception of /home. Attempting to run the postinstall 
scripts manually failed for me.

I initially got things working by creating the environment by hand 
(creating /home/<user>, populating it with another installation's 
.bashrc and .bash_profile) and setting the path to include <install 
path>/bin.

That workaround felt dirty, so I deleted the local cygwin package cache 
and used another mirror. Things worked fine this time. It is a weird 
problem and I have no idea why that would fix it.

Hope that helps,

--Robert Peaslee

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 03:44:24PM -0700, Archana  wrote:
>   
>> I installed using setup.exe and installed numerous additional packages
>> in the hopes of getting ls on Windows XP.
>> After double clicking on the Cygwin Icon, pwd works but ls does not.
>> I expected ls to work as it is the most basic command available.
>> When I run cygcheck or uname I get the following:
>> bash-3.2$ cygcheck
>> bash: cygcheck: command not found
>> bash: uname: command not found
>>     
>
> ...which would indicate that, for some reason, your PATH environment
> variable does not contain "/usr/bin".
>
> Save the PATH and save the world.
>
> cgf
>
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