So, in the end, reinstalling didn't do much. And I got a bunch of "Cannot open (null) for reading" (error not guaranteed to be accurate), usually when it was trying to install gzipped man pages or something. (Times like these I wonder why I persist in downloading every cygwin package on the mirror when I use only a fraction of them. Compulsive behaviour, I guess.)
In any case, I was able to fix the problem by recreating /etc/profile from /etc/skel. Why /etc/profile got trashed by the upgrade to 1.7, I don't know, but apparently it did. So now I once again have PATH initialized properly and my bash prompt looks normal. -- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ ) Current Song--Buddy:Sugar Girl Current Book--Carol Berg:Transformation If this sentence were in Chinese, it would say something else. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
