That fixed it. That was a really good idea. How did you guys know the problem was a permissions issue?
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Ken Brown <kbr...@cornell.edu> wrote: > [Please don't top post.] > > > On 2/18/2012 3:53 PM, Adrian Sandstrom wrote: >> >> I didn't have /etc/profile so I copied /etc/default/etc/profile to >> /etc/profile. >> >> Aside from /etc/profile, I don't have any of the other files that >> David mentions, but do have the profile.d directory. Here are the >> permissions of all related files mentioned: >> >> bash-4.1$ ls -l profile* >> -rw-r----- 1 adrian None 6.9K Feb 18 11:14 profile >> >> profile.d: >> total 4.0K >> -rw-r--r-- 1 adrian root 109 Jan 18 07:50 openssl.csh >> -rw-r--r-- 1 adrian root 41 Jan 18 07:50 openssl.sh >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 adrian root 74 Jan 29 19:13 xinit.csh* >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 adrian root 44 Jan 29 19:13 xinit.sh* >> >> >> I did see that both base-files postinstall scripts in >> /etc/postinstall/ were not executable: >> >> bash-4.1$ ls -l base* >> -rw-rw---- 1 adrian root 1.2K Feb 12 13:13 base-files-mketc.sh.done >> -rw-rw---- 1 adrian root 925 Feb 12 13:13 base-files-profile.sh.done >> >> So I changed them to be: >> >> bash-4.1$ ls -l base* >> -rwxrwx--- 1 adrian root 1.2K Feb 12 13:13 base-files-mketc.sh.done* >> -rwxrwx--- 1 adrian root 925 Feb 12 13:13 base-files-profile.sh.done* >> >> I ran setup again without installing anything --> no change to terminal >> I ran setup again selecting to reinstall hexedit --> no change to >> terminal >> >> I really appreciate your guys' help! Can't wait to find out what the issue >> is... > > > David already told you that the issue is probably the permissions on some of > the files in the base-files package. I would suggest that you use setup.exe > to reinstall the base-files package, and then manually change the > permissions as he suggested: > > >>> This is probably caused by incorrect permissions in the latest >>> base-files' >>> package contents. >>> A release fixing this will be available shortly. >>> For the time being, please check and correct perms in: >>> >>> /etc/bash.bash_logout >>> /etc/profile.d >>> /etc/profile.d/tzset.sh >>> /etc/profile.d/tzset.csh >>> /etc/profile.d/lang.csh >>> /etc/profile.d/lang.sh >>> /etc/bash.bashrc >>> /etc/skel/.inputrc >>> /etc/skel/.profile >>> /etc/skel/.bashrc >>> /etc/skel/.bash_profile >>> /etc/profile >>> >>> All of them should have owner/group root.root and 644 perms (rw-r--r--) > > > Ken > > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
