Re: New install of 1.5.10 replacing 1.5.6: many things not working

[Joe Landman <landman at scalableinformatics dot com>]

Brian Ford wrote:

> On Fri, 28 May 2004, Joe Landman wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Hi folks:
> >
> >  I have multiple machines with 1.5.6 installed.  I wanted to upgrade to
> > 1.5.10 (bug fixes, speed, etc).  Stuff worked (for the most part) in
> > 1.5.6. I was/am looking to using it for application development on windows.
> >    
>
> Are you trying to upgrade just the Cygwin package, or all Cygwin packages?
>
>  

All packages.  This happened with an upgrade.  Then I wiped cygwin, and 
did a full re-install.  Same issues.

> >  With 1.5.10 install, I get error messages about find.exe being given
> > bad arguments.
> >    
>
> This usually means you have a PATH problem and are getting the Windows
> version of find rather than the Cygwin one.
>
>  

I figured something strange like that. I might be able to work around it 
by renaming the other find.exe (at least temporarily).  I seem to 
remember having to do this in the 1.3.x days.

> > Many of the post-install scripts die with problems with grep (more in a
> > moment).  When I open the cygbash shell, it puts me into /usr/bin by
> > default,
> >    
>
> Check you /etc/passwd file and make sure your user home directory is set
> correctly.
>  

Its in there, and it still comes up in /usr/bin .

>  
>
> > and the moment I cd out of there, I lose any ability to run
> > basic commands such as ls.
> >    
>
> Sounds like . is in your PATH, but /usr/bin isn't.
>  

Some other things are missing too (not just grep).  I cannot seem to 
find cat.

>  
>
> > Anything that tries to use grep is rewarded with an error message about
> > /bin/grep not existing.  Quick ls'ing around (find does not work...
> > sigh) does not locate a grep.
> >
> > Ok, I may be thick, but I think that there might be a problem here.
> >
> > The machines with problems:
> >
> > 1) Windows XP Home laptop.  SP1 installed.   512 MB ram
> >
> > 2) Windows 2000 desktop.  SP_something_or_other installed.  768 MB ram
> >
> > Both had similar working copies of 1.5.6 installed.  Starting up the
> > cygbash shell resulted in being in the /home/landman directory (where I
> > thought I should be).  Everything properly pathed out in the older version.
> >
> > Any thoughts?  I don't have to re-install the OS... (I hope :( ).
> >    
>
> Try a Cygwin reinstall after checking out your PATH issues.
>  

I think I am going to retry a complete wipe and reload.

> Please read this:
>  
>
> > Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> >    

Did read some of it.

> and attach cygcheck output.  Maybe then someone will have a better idea.
>
>  

Thanks.  Will do.


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