X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 19:03:54 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Upgrade to cygwin 1.7 seemed to trash bash profile, path Message-ID: <20090528230354.GD25043@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4A1C0ACB DOT 1030001 AT cygwin DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 03:37:39PM -0600, Aaron Humphrey wrote: >On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Karl M wrote: >> >>> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 21:26:36 -0600 >>> Subject: Re: Upgrade to cygwin 1.7 seemed to trash bash profile, path >>> From: alfvaen >>> >>>>> You seem to be missing '/usr/bin' and '/usr/lib'. There was talk about >>>>> some of this changing though in my up-to-date installation, I still have >>>>> them so I'm not sure where this stands. In any case, it suggests that >>>>> you may want to try add the following to your '/etc/fstab' file: >>>>> >>>>> c:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib some_fs binary 0 0 >>>>> c:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin some_fs binary 0 0 >>> >> Hi... >> >> You have to stop all cygwin processes after editing fstab to see a change. >> >> ...Karl > >I'm aware of that. And I exited out of my cygwin window (the only >thing I had running, since I run no Cygwin services) and went back in >after making the edit. However, considering that I could already see >/usr/bin before I made the change, and my bash prompt was still >screwed up, I don't think that was the problem, somehow. Though there >was only one line in my fstab...is it still looking at the 1.5-era >registry entries, perhaps? I'm not really following this discussion closely but there should not, by default, be any entries for /usr/lib or /usr/bin in your /etc/fstab file. Don't know if that clarifies anything or not... cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/