Re: /usr vanished

2013-04-23 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Septimus Stevens! > If I can complain a little, I found the download defaults to be > faulty. Tiny standard packages like 'bc', 'more' and some others > should be loaded by default. Cygwin keep a copy of all downloaded packages. I don't see a reason to redownload everything, if you ju

Re: /usr vanished

2013-04-23 Thread Septimus Stevens
I think I now know how /usr vanished. While doing something with /cygwin via Windows, a faulty mouse motion moved /cygwin/usr to another directory under /cywin/c . /usr was still there but invisible to me. (I should have run a giant 'find' or such to locate it, but didn't.) I f

Re: /usr vanished

2013-04-22 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:47 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Septimus Stevens gmail.com> writes: >> But my /usr suddenly disappeared, as though I'd done a 'rm -r /usr' >> but it seems VERY unlikely I typed that. ( /bin and /lib are still >> there) >> >> Any idea how this could happen? > > You might hav

Re: /usr vanished

2013-04-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Septimus Stevens gmail.com> writes: > But my /usr suddenly disappeared, as though I'd done a 'rm -r /usr' > but it seems VERY unlikely I typed that. ( /bin and /lib are still > there) > > Any idea how this could happen? You might have had it marked in Explorer when deleting something else, or y

Re: /usr vanished

2013-04-21 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Septimus Stevens! > (This is my first post to cygwin. Kudos to cygwin dvelopers -- I've > been using it for 9 months and am amazed how well it works.) > But my /usr suddenly disappeared, as though I'd done a 'rm -r /usr' > but it seems VERY unlikely I typed that. ( /bin and /lib are

/usr vanished

2013-04-20 Thread Septimus Stevens
(This is my first post to cygwin. Kudos to cygwin dvelopers -- I've been using it for 9 months and am amazed how well it works.) But my /usr suddenly disappeared, as though I'd done a 'rm -r /usr' but it seems VERY unlikely I typed that. ( /bin and /lib are still there) Any idea how this could