Re: Updated: cygwin-1.5.22-1

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

towo@computer.org wrote:
> After recent updates (including cygwin1.dll, bash), starting an rxvt 
> showed the following message:
>
> : command not found
> : command not found
> : command not found
> : command not found
> : command not found
> ': not a valid identifier
> : command not found
> ': not a valid identifier
> : command not found
> ': not a valid identifier
> : command not found
> ': not a valid identifier
> : command not found
> : command not found
> bash: /etc/profile: line 63: syntax error near unexpected token `done'
> 'ash: /etc/profile: line 63: `  done <<- EOF
>
> So I looked into /etc/profile and it turned out to have DOS line-ends!


You must have had a '/etc/profile' that you edited to contain DOS line
endings.  Perhaps you switched from DOS to UNIX mounts during this
upgrade?  In any case, the change you made is correct.


> After fixing this manually, rxvt would start normally, except - 
> I suddenly had a US keyboard layout! (On a German keyboard.)


Perhaps this is caused by DOS line endings in other config files you
have?



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