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RE: upgrading broke cygwin?

From: "Val Schmidt" <vschmidt at ldeo dot columbia dot edu>
To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Cc: "'Elfyn McBratney'" <elfyn-cygwin at exposure dot org dot uk>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:56:05 -0500
Subject: RE: upgrading broke cygwin?
This was 1.3.19.

However I've got two systems running cygwin and the other still has 1.3.20.
My home directory on the 1.3.20 system is below, with some errors I also get
with the 1.3.20 when my bash prompt cranks up:

[And yes, I have a two word username here (dumb), is that really likely to
be the cause of the problem?]

-Val

BEGIN INFO:

/usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf: Permission denied
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf: Permission denied
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf: Permission denied
/usr/share/texmf/ls-R: Permission denied
/usr/share/texmf/aliases: Permission denied

Val Schmidt at hobbs ~
$ ls -l
total 7
lrwxrwxrwx    1 Val Schm None          101 Dec 13 14:41 Val ->
/cygdrive/f/Val/
-rw-rw-rw-    1 Val Schm None           58 Feb 13 14:19 WxDataISAPI.dll
-rwxrwx---+   1 Administ Administ      146 Sep 17 09:56 datawriter.pl*
drwxrwx---+   2 Administ Administ        0 Nov 19 19:27 docbook-xml-4.2/
drwxrwx---+   2 Administ Administ        0 Nov 19 19:27 ent/
-rwx------+   1 Val Schm None         3189 Feb 13 13:44 httpget1.txt*
drwxrwx---+   7 Administ Administ        0 Nov 19 18:37 mb-cookbook/
-rw-rw-rw-    1 Val Schm None          372 Jan 27 12:13 or1-securitynotes
drwx------+   3 Val Schm None            0 Feb 19 17:52 tmp/
drwxrwxrwx+   2 Val Schm None            0 Jan  2 11:19 tunnel_scripts/


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu]
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 9:48 AM
> To: Val Schmidt
> Cc: 'Elfyn McBratney'; cygwin at cygwin dot com
> Subject: Re: upgrading broke cygwin?
> 
> Val,
> 
> Is the below ls output with Cygwin-1.3.19 or 1.3.20?  Also, what's the
> value of your CYGWIN environment variable?
> 
> You might also want to change your username in /etc/passwd to something
> with no space.  It probably isn't related to your current problem, but
> some tools, especially shell scripts, cannot handle usernames with spaces
> properly.  Same goes for your home directory - just rename it to, say,
> /home/Val_Schmidt and change the appropriate /etc/passwd entry.  You don't
> need to change your Windows user name, just the /etc/passwd entry.  Be
> careful to leave the SID part of the entry intact.  Note that this change
> *will* affect inetd and sshd if you use them.
> 	Igor
> 
> On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Val Schmidt wrote:
> 
> > I appreciate the help.
> >
> > It's not clear to me why either mkpasswd or mkgroup in my home directory
> > would cause the effects I and others have been seeing with the latest
> > version of cygwin.
> >
> > At any rate, here's the results of my ls -al on my home directory.  No
> > mkpasswd or mkgroup.
> >
> > -Val
> >
> > $ ls -al
> > total 11492
> > drwxrwxr-x+  15 Administ Administ        0 Feb 23 14:33 ./
> > drwxrwxr-x+   3 Administ Administ        0 Jan 28 15:40 ../
> > -rw-rw----    1 Administ Administ     4518 Feb 21 16:57 .bash_history
> > -rw-r--r--    1 Val Schm None          596 Feb 20 15:54 .bash_profile
> > -rw-rw-rw-    1 Val Schm None          587 Feb 23 14:33 .bashrc
> > drwxrwxrwx+   3 Val Schm None            0 Nov 22 13:37 .emacs.d/
> > -rw-rw-rw-    1 Val Schm None            0 Feb 20 14:39 .gmtcommands
> > -rw-rw-rw-    1 Val Schm None          356 Feb 19 16:27 .inputrc
> > drwxr-xr-x+   2 Val Schm None            0 Jan 30 10:13 .ncftp/
> > -rw-------    1 Val Schm None         6061 Feb 23 17:45 .octave_hist
> > -rw-r--r--    1 Val Schm None          216 Nov 22 13:30 .profile
> > drwxrwx---+   2 Administ Administ        0 Jan 14 11:10 .ssh/
> > -rwxrw-rw-    1 Val Schm None           43 Dec 13 11:59 .tunnel*
> > -rw-rw-r--    1 Val Schm None          664 Jan 20 10:13 .xinitrc
> > drwxrwxrwx+   4 Val Schm None            0 Jan 20 17:15 hiro/
> > drwxr-xr-x+   2 Val Schm None            0 Nov 21 17:42 kermit/
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 Val Schm None          191 Dec 13 14:44 mydocs ->
> /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Val Schmidt/My Documents//
> > drwxrwxrwx+   6 Val Schm None            0 Feb 23 15:26 octave/
> > -rwxrwx---+   2 Administ SYSTEM    4194372 Feb 17 13:26 pfirewall.log*
> > drwxrwxrwx+   2 Val Schm None            0 Dec 19 15:41 plotscripts/
> > drwxrwxrwx+   3 Val Schm None            0 Jan 20 16:26 projects/
> > drwxrwxr-x+   6 Administ Administ        0 Jan 28 15:13 rsync-scripts/
> > -rwxrwxr-x    1 Administ Administ      504 Oct 15 10:55
> ssh.exe.stackdump*
> > -rw-rw-rw-    1 Val Schm None         2202 Dec 12 13:31 sshd-cygwin
> > -rw-rw-rw-    1 Val Schm None         1982 Dec 12 13:18 sshd-cygwin~
> > drwxrwsr-x+   4 Val Schm None            0 Feb 17 11:24 testing/
> > drwxrwxrwx+   2 Val Schm None            0 Feb 23 18:03 tmp/
> > drwxrwxrwx+   2 Val Schm None            0 Feb  3 17:09 tunnel_scripts/
> > drwxrwxrwx+   2 Val Schm None            0 Feb  3 16:34 unison-scripts/
> > -rw-rw-rw-    1 Val Schm None          102 Feb  5 13:48 unison.cmd
> > -rw-r--r--    1 Val Schm None      7546969 Feb 17 15:20 waas.d226
> >
> > ________________________________________________
> > Val Schmidt
> > Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
> > 61 Route 9W
> > Palisades, NY 10964
> > m: 614 286 3726
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Elfyn McBratney [mailto:elfyn-cygwin at exposure dot org dot uk]
> > > Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 12:20 PM
> > > To: cygwin; Val Schmidt
> > > Subject: Re: Re: upgrading broke cygwin?
> > >
> > > > I upgraded to the 1.3.20-1 version dll today and saw very similar
> > > > and strange behavior.  Some things wouldn't execute due to
> > > > permissions errors, and other would execute from commandline but not
> > > > from a script.  What causes this, I don't know.
> > > >
> > > > I ran setup.exe again, found the "base" cygwin install, cycled
> > > > through the keep/uninstall/revert until 1.9-19 version came up, and
> > > > installed the older version.  Everything seems to be working fine
> > > > now.
> > > >
> > > > I wish I could help with what's broke, but I don't have a clue.
> > > >
> > > > There's a recent remark in the list that's there's no way to
> > > > uninstall - the procedure above seems to work just fine.
> > >
> > > What is the output of `ls -al /path/to/your/homedir' . I'm thinking
> > > that it will contain eother mkpasswd or mkgroup.
> > >
> > > Elfyn McBratney
> 
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