On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:43:00PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: >Michael Kwong wrote: >> I wonder if anyone else has seen this issue, but after installing 1.7 >> from setup.exe, starting up cygwin causes it to complain about not >> being able to find /usr/bin/sed, and the shell also doesn't seem to be >> fully functional either (delete key doesn't work, less is not working >> properly ... etc). > >I have no mkpasswd or group, no mount. Don't know what else is missing. >I do have 'sed', but it might have been there from before (I didn't reinstall >it).
Please don't spread misinformation. There is no reason for sed to be a prerequisite since it is in the Base category and should be installed unless it is explicitly disabled. >I've done a cygcheck -c to see if any packages had missing files. > >cygwin-doc and gcc4-<something> -- I reinstalled them but it changed nothing. > >I didn't really expect it to, since package 'cygwin' is supposed to contain >mkpasswd, and it was listed as complete. So, you were looking specifically for "mkpasswd" and tried reinstalling "cygwin-doc" and "gcc4-<something>"? That doesn't make a lot of sense. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
