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bash 3.1.18 seems seriously broken
- From: Larry Breyer <lbreyer at cs dot ucsd dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:22:54 -0700
- Subject: bash 3.1.18 seems seriously broken
What changed from bash 3.1.17 to 3.1.18 ?
I blindly performed a cygwin update, rebooted, and attempted startx.
X came up OK but the terminals would not respond to keyboard input.
Looking at the output of startx it became apparent something was
seriously wrong with /bin/sh (/bin/bash).
I got syntax errors on blank lines.
I also found, by adding little debugging stuff, like 'ls $XAPPLRESDIR',
that the shell was quoting env variables. I was getting "no such file
or directory" on valid paths because the shell was including single
quotes around the path. At least that's what it looked like.
Really odd. I solved the problem by reverting to bash 3.1.17.
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Larry Breyer
UCSD Computer Science
(858) 822-4990
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