On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Larry Hall wrote: > Aaron Humphrey wrote: >> >> 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.) > > Perhaps there is something interesting to be found in setup.log.full.
Could be; I didn't have to a chance to look at it. > My impression is that you were installing from the Internet rather > than downloading and then installing. Is that right? I was, and I had chosen a different mirror last time I installed so it had to re-download more than it really needed to. I did also get the message that the download had not completed properly, but when I asked it to rerun it only downloaded two packages and then got the same error. >> 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. I think I meant /etc/defaults here, not /etc/skel. > Was there an '/etc/profile' file in any form before you recreated it? No, there wasn't. I don't remember if I had ever modified it before it got trashed, either. -- --Alfvaen (Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ ) Song In My Head--Kid Creole & The Coconuts:The Love We Have Current Book--Carol Berg:Transformation Constant change is here to stay. -- 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/
