Re: hexedit install flub...now shell seems rudimentary

[Adrian Sandstrom <adrians at gmail dot com>]

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 <kbrown@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