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Re: emacs won't run
- From: Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 11:26:18 -0500
- Subject: Re: emacs won't run
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On 12/6/2013 8:25 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 andrea mkgroup 23 11 set 12.22 /usr/bin/emacs ->
/etc/alternatives/emacs
$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/emacs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 andrea mkgroup 22 11 set 12.22 /etc/alternatives/emacs ->
/usr/bin/emacs-X11.exe
I don't know if this explains your emacs problem, but the group
"mkgroup" indicates that /etc/group (and possibly /etc/passwd) should be
rebuilt Don't you get a message about this when you start a shell?
Ken
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