Brian Wilson <wilson <at> ds.net> writes: > > > > While I can run the Cygwin terminal window, there appears to be a very serious > > > issue as I can't run commands like "cd", "ls", or "cygcheck" either. > > > > Can you tell us what this means? How did you determine that you can't run these commands? > > I opened the cygwin terminal and got the usual shell prompt. I entered the "cd" or "ls" commands and got a > command not found error. I echoed > $PATH and saw that the path didn't look correct (which is why I assume the commands couldn't be found). I > would have expected to see /usr/bin and > /usr/local/bin in the path somewhere. I didn't try giving the full path to these commands to see if the > commands would have worked (I assume they > would, but will confirm tonight). > > I opened an Explorer session and went to C:\cygwin\bin and I could see the ls.exe and cygcheck.exe files > were present so I presumed the issue was > with the $PATH not being set correctly. > > > > I can't run cygcheck or I would try to give the output as an attachment. > > > > So you're saying c:\cygwin\bin\cygcheck.exe doesn't run from cmd.exe? > > True for c:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe too? What feedback do you get? > > I got the command not found error when I tried to run cygcheck from the shell. Stupidly, I didn't try with the > full path to the file in the shell. > I did open a windoz cmd window and ran the cygcheck command. There were errors (which I didn't bother to > record of course). I will repeat this > attempt and send the results this evening. > > Sincerely, > > Brian S. Wilson > >
I just got this exact same thing and tried re-installing coreutils with no effect. Initially, I had been installing binutils, and was told to restart because I had left a cygwin console open during the install. Interested to hear what is known about this (recent) issue. -- 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
