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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:43:02 -0500
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Subject: Re: 1.7.1: Mintty/bash window start: -bash: regtool: command not   	found
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Andy Koppe wrote:
> 2009/12/23 Lee D. Rothstein:
>   
>> Just installed 1.7.1.  Bravo, again.
>>
>> Everything seems to be working okay, but every time I start up a Mintty/Bash
>> window I get the following
>> error message.
>>
>> -bash: regtool: command not found
>>
>> Shortcut is:
>>
>> C:\_0\bin\mintty.exe --icon=c:\_0\cygicons-hippo-vista-0.dll,10 -
>>
>> 'regtool' does not appear in my profile nor my bashrc.
>>
>> Huh?
>>     
>
> There's a regtool call in /etc/profile:
>
> PRINTER="`regtool -q get '\user\Software\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\Window\Device' | sed 's/,.*$//'`"
>
> I can reproduce this as follows:
>
> - Leave a Cygwin session open.
> - Run setup.exe
> - Select reinstall for cygwin-1.7.1-1.
> - Click next
> - "in-use files detected" appears
> - Click retry.
>
> Strangely, 'retry' is accepted even without closing all Cygwin
> processes. But it doesn't seem to make a difference to the outcome
> anyway: regtool and also mount and ps aren't installed.
>
> It can be fixed by reinstalling the cygwin package again, this time
> without any Cygwin processes running.
>
>   
Thanks, Andy, this fixed the sucker! And too, regtool did get installed.

Is this a setup bug?

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