Re: ls not working on cygwin install on XP

["Matt Marnell" <matt at mattmarnell dot com>]

So I have uninstalled/reinstalled several times from several mirrors and
am still getting the same errors.  My condition appears identical to the
below.  I have attached my setup.log.full file and the bash.exe.stackdump
to help.

Any progress/aid?

Thanks
Matt

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From: Robert Peaslee
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:33:26 -0400
Subject: Re: ls not working on cygwin install on XP

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I actually had the same problem just this week, but thought it was Windows
Vista specific since I hadn't heard of it before.

For some reason the postinstall scripts aren't running correctly, but only
sometimes. I know that I got lucky on my third reinstall after a couple of
days of attempting to troubleshoot my installation. The packages are all
being retrieved, and the directory structure is being created with the
exception of /home. Attempting to run the postinstall scripts manually
failed for me.

I initially got things working by creating the environment by hand
(creating /home/<user>, populating it with another installation's .bashrc
and .bash_profile) and setting the path to include <install path>/bin.

That workaround felt dirty, so I deleted the local cygwin package cache
and used another mirror. Things worked fine this time. It is a weird
problem and I have no idea why that would fix it.

Hope that helps,

--Robert Peaslee

Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 03:44:24PM -0700, Archana wrote:

I installed using setup.exe and installed numerous additional packages
in the hopes of getting ls on Windows XP.
After double clicking on the Cygwin Icon, pwd works but ls does not.
I expected ls to work as it is the most basic command available.
When I run cygcheck or uname I get the following:
bash-3.2$ cygcheck
bash: cygcheck: command not found
bash: uname: command not found

...which would indicate that, for some reason, your PATH environment
variable does not contain "/usr/bin".

Save the PATH and save the world.

cgf


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