Larry Hall (Cygwin <reply-to-list-only-lh <at> cygwin.com> writes:
>>> > >> > >> Cygwin 1.5.25 seems like a good option. So I downloaded setup- legacy.exe > >> from fruitbat and ran it on an XP machine which has not previously seen > >> Cygwin. Initially I installed just the base Cygwin files. The process ran > >> as expected, and installed 4,263 files in 472 folders. > >> > >> However the bash shell appears non-functional as far as external commands > >> go. It presents a prompt bash-3.2$, if I type something like ls, it > >> responds command not found. Any ideas? > > > > $PATH? > > Indeed. And if your path under bash doesn't include /usr/bin, then I'll > wager your postinstall scripts didn't run or at least completely/correctly. > See /etc/postinstall for the scripts. If you aren't able to figure out > what didn't run properly, you can either try rerunning everything manually > and looking for faults (if any) or just rerun setup.exe and hope that it > has better luck with the scripts the second time around. > Spot on, Larry. $PATH is empty. I 'Reinstall'ed Cygwin, but the result is the same. I did take note of setup complaining that there is a more recent version available according to the ini file (2.774 vs 2.674) but I'm picking that isn't the problem. /etc/postinstall contains the following "done" script files: base-files-mketc.sh.done base-files-profile.sh.done bash.sh.done coreutils.sh.done cygwin-doc.sh.done man.sh.done passwd-grp.sh.done terminfo.sh.done terminfo0.sh.done update-info-dir.sh.done Is there something missing from that list? What's my next step? I haven't yet tried running them manually, that will have to wait until tonight (gmt + 12). Thanks, Colin -- 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
