On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 16:33, Ken Brown via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > On 7/14/2021 5:08 PM, Doug Henderson via Cygwin wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 13:03, Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> wrote: > >> > >> Doug Henderson via Cygwin writes: > >>> The first error message occurred when I installed all pending packages > >>> this morning. I hoped to heal the problem by reinstalling the > >>> installed gnuplot packages. Now I get both the messages. > >> > >> If you look in /var7Log/setup.log.full you should be able to see what > >> error messages, if any, were recorded. > >> > >> The gnuplot related script should just set up the current alternative > >> for "gnuplot" to use, but something on your system seems to prevent > >> that from happening. You can also run the script in sh (you must tell > >> the shell to source it) and should get the same error (most likely). > > > > When I do that in an elevated shell: > > > > $ cd /etc/postinstall/ > > > > $ cat gnuplot-base.dash > > /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/gnuplot gnuplot > > /usr/bin/gnuplot-base.exe 10 > > > > $ . gnuplot-base.dash > > failed to read link /usr/bin/gnuplot: No such file or directory > > failed to link /usr/bin/gnuplot -> /etc/alternatives/gnuplot: No such > > file or directory > > Something seems to be confusing 'alternatives'. Can you show a listing of > /etc/alternatives?
$ cd /etc/alternatives/ $ ls -l total 2.0K lrwxrwxrwx 1 Admin None 35 Oct 3 2017 automake-doc -> /usr/share/info/automake1.9.info.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 Admin None 19 Jun 16 17:48 lua -> /usr/bin/lua5.3.exe* lrwxrwxrwx 1 Admin None 31 Jun 16 17:48 lua.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/lua5.3.1.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 Admin None 20 Jun 16 17:48 luac -> /usr/bin/luac5.3.exe* lrwxrwxrwx 1 Admin None 32 Jun 16 17:48 luac.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/luac5.3.1.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 Admin None 15 Jun 5 08:46 pip3 -> /usr/bin/pip3.8* lrwxrwxrwx 1 Admin None 22 Jun 16 07:34 python -> /usr/bin/python3.8.exe* -rw-r--r-- 1 Admin None 163 Apr 4 2013 README $ ls -ld . drwxr-xr-x+ 1 Admin None 0 Jun 16 17:48 ./ $ lsacl /etc/alternatives [u::rwx,g::r-x,o::r-x/u::rwx,g::r-x,o::r-x] /etc/alternatives $ icacls /etc/alternatives/ drwxr-xr-x+ 1 Admin None 0 Jun 16 17:48 /etc/alternatives/ C:\cygwin64\etc\alternatives xxxx\Admin:(F) xxxx\None:(RX) Everyone:(RX) CREATOR OWNER:(OI)(CI)(IO)(F) CREATOR GROUP:(OI)(CI)(IO)(RX) Everyone:(OI)(CI)(IO)(RX) BTW: $ where icacls icacls is a function icacls () { local target; ls -hF --color=auto --color=none --indicator-style=none -dl $( cygpath -a "$1" ); target="$( cygpath -aw "$1" )"; $( cygpath -u 'C:\Windows\System32\icacls.exe' ) "$target" /Q | sed -e '/^Succ/d' } Hope this helps with the diagnosis. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple