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On 7/26/2012 9:33 AM, ping wrote:
> actually I tried...couldn't figure out how. the instruction from rebaseall
> is quite confusing...

You missed some important bits:

> [ping AT ping-new-laptop ~]$ rebaseall
> rebaseall: only ash or dash processes are allowed during rebasing
>      Exit all Cygwin processes and stop all Cygwin services.
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
i.e. You can't start ash or dash from a Cygwin shell or terminal.

>      Execute ash (or dash) from Start/Run... or a cmd or command window.
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Run ash from here _after_stopping_all_Cygwin_processes_and_services_.

>      Execute '/bin/rebaseall' from ash (or dash).



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