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Re: After installing 1.7.7 command ls is null --now with cygcheck.out
On 01/31/2011 03:00 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 1/31/2011 2:16 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
>> On 01/31/2011 01:55 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
>>> In my case, I installed cygwin a few months ago and yesterday I went to
>>> upgrade it and install several packages.
>>>
>>> As it was going along it said that cygwin1.dll was busy so I pressed
>>> Continue and at the end it said a reboot was required. And so I
>>> rebooted the machine.
>>>
>>> When I logged back in, cygwin was not behaving correctly. ls, find,
>>> cat, cp, maybe more commands were not functioning correctly.
>>>
>>> The was after upgrading to 1.7.7. When I check cygcheck output it
>>> shows
>>> cygwin1.dll as 1.7.5.
>>>
>>> If I try and run strace, it fails with an error about a missing symbol.
>>>
>>> There were also a number of errors showing for postinstall scripts.
>>>
>>> Where in this process did either I or the install go wrong?
>>
>> Also, we have cygrunsrv operating services if that could have any
>> bearing on this.
>
> This is why you got the complaint about cygwin1.dll being busy.
>
> When you did the upgrade, did you download the current 'setup.exe' from
> cygwin.com?
>
Yes.
Regards,
Gerry
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