Re: autorebase.bat stalls during setup-x86.exe

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Aug 23 18:39, Fritz, Jason wrote:
> Hi Corinna,
> 
> My environment seems to have been seriously damaged by the upgrade.  I started a bash (not dash) shell and immediately saw these errors:
> 
> -bash: id: command not found
> -bash: id: command not found
> -bash: cut: command not found
> 
> I tried running 'ls' and also got "command not found".  My Cygwin/bin dir is missing ls.exe.
> 
> I tried running 'rebaseall' but got strange errors:
> 
> jfritz@JFRITZ-W7 ~
> $ /usr/bin/rebaseall
> -bash: /usr/bin/rebaseall: /bin/ash: bad interpreter: Permission denied

Don't run rebaseall from bash.  Running it from ash/dash is advisable
to make sure no process blocks a DLL.

> Running "cygcheck -c" shows lots of incomplete packages (output below).
> 
> BTW, I wasn't clear in my last email.  The 7 min stall ended when I cancelled the installer because the autorebase.bat was stuck again.
> 
> I guess I'll reinstall.  Thank you for your help.

Yeah, that sounds best.  I'm sorry what happened to your installation
but it's kind of hard to see what caused it.


Corinna

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