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* RE: Trouble with fresh install of Cygwin
@ 2002-10-31  9:15 Joshua Daniel Franklin
  2002-10-31  9:37 ` Pierre A. Humblet
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Joshua Daniel Franklin @ 2002-10-31  9:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kaspar.pflugshaupt, cygwin

> But the other problem persists. Could it be something about permissions? I 
> have 
> installed cygwin as a non-admin user (I don't have admin rights on my working

> PC... it's a sad world).

It certainly sounds like a strange problem. I suspect that:

1. It is not your Cygwin (Unix) permissions since you can execute /usr/bin/tbl
manually (and /usr/bin/man, but man cannot execute other things)

2. You are running NT/2000/XP and there is something wrong with the ACLs. I'm
afraid I'm not much of an expert at troubleshooting ACLs. You might read the
Cygwin User's Guide section about NT permissions. 

I see an interim solution, though... you can just read man pages with pinfo or
info. You also might try reinstalling the 'man' package to make sure the 
config files weren't hosed.

HTH.

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* Re: Trouble with fresh install of Cygwin
  2002-10-31  9:15 Trouble with fresh install of Cygwin Joshua Daniel Franklin
@ 2002-10-31  9:37 ` Pierre A. Humblet
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Pierre A. Humblet @ 2002-10-31  9:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 08:31:41AM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> > But the other problem persists. Could it be something about permissions? I 
> > have 
> > installed cygwin as a non-admin user (I don't have admin rights on my working
> 
Try running "man -d xxxx"
It will output line(s) such as

not executing command:
  (cd /usr/man ; (echo -e ".pl 1100i"; cat /usr/man/man1/ln.1; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/tbl |
/usr/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc | gzip > /usr/man/cat1/ln.1.gz)

Now try executing the command(s) from the shell (cut & paste)

Pierre

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* RE: Trouble with fresh install of Cygwin
@ 2002-10-31  3:21 Pflugshaupt Kaspar (KPMR)
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From: Pflugshaupt Kaspar (KPMR) @ 2002-10-31  3:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'

Thanks to Joshua D. Franklin and Mark A. Harig for their prompt responses! Alas, not all is well:

> I can think of a couple of possibilities.
> What does the output of "mount" say? (/usr/bin should be mapped to /bin)
> Can you actually execute /usr/bin/groff.exe? (Permissions problem?)

"mount" gives:
Y:\bin\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type user (binmode)
C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type user (binmode)
C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type user (binmode)
C:\cygwin on / type user (binmode)
c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)
g: on /cygdrive/g type user (binmode,noumount)
m: on /cygdrive/m type user (binmode,noumount)
t: on /cygdrive/t type user (binmode,noumount)
w: on /cygdrive/w type user (binmode,noumount)
x: on /cygdrive/x type user (binmode,noumount)
y: on /cygdrive/y type user (binmode,noumount)

I can call both groff and tbl from the command line, e.g.

"groff -h" or "tbl -h" give the respective usage info

> "info: dir: No such file or directory"

> This sounds like the /etc/postinstall/ stuff did not run correctly. 
> Try 'sh /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh" (that may not be the exact
> name of the script) and see if there are any errors. 

The script was named "update-info-dir.sh.done", probably indicating it had been run. When I started it, it completed without any problems. info now works. Thanks!

But the other problem persists. Could it be something about permissions? I have installed cygwin as a non-admin user (I don't have admin rights on my working PC... it's a sad world).

Thanks & cheers

Kaspar Pflugshaupt

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* Re: Trouble with fresh install of Cygwin
@ 2002-10-30  9:25 Joshua Daniel Franklin
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From: Joshua Daniel Franklin @ 2002-10-30  9:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kaspar.pflugshaupt, cygwin

> I've just installed Cygwin from the Web onto a Windows NT 4.0 machine. I
chose 
> the defaults plus the "man" package. On logging in, some things do not work:
> 
> "man cmd" gives (for cmd = anything)
> "/usr/bin/tbl: not found
>  /usr/bin/groff: not found"
> 
> Both programs are installed, though, and can be called from the command line 
> just fine. They are within the $PATH, too.

I can think of a couple of possibilities.
What does the output of "mount" say? (/usr/bin should be mapped to /bin)
Can you actually execute /usr/bin/groff.exe? (Permissions problem?)

> "info: dir: No such file or directory"

This sounds like the /etc/postinstall/ stuff did not run correctly. 
Try 'sh /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh" (that may not be the exact
name of the script) and see if there are any errors. 



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* RE: Trouble with fresh install of Cygwin
@ 2002-10-30  9:10 Harig, Mark A.
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From: Harig, Mark A. @ 2002-10-30  9:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Pflugshaupt Kaspar (KPMR), cygwin

> 
> I've just installed Cygwin from the Web onto a Windows NT 4.0 
> machine. I chose the defaults plus the "man" package. On 
> logging in, some things do not work:
> 
> "man cmd" gives (for cmd = anything)
> "/usr/bin/tbl: not found
>  /usr/bin/groff: not found"
> 
> Both programs are installed, though, and can be called from 
> the command line just fine. They are within the $PATH, too.
> 
> "info" gives
> "info: dir: No such file or directory"
> 
> although /usr/info is present and well populated.

'info' relies on a file named 'dir' (typically, in /usr/info).
The _update-info-dir package attempts to generate this.  You
should find a script in /etc/postinstall/ named
'update-info-dir.sh.done.'  Try re-running that script.  It
might provide clues about what is wrong with your system
configuration.

> 
> Does anybody have an idea what's going on?
> 
> 
> > I've attached the output of "cygcheck -c" below.

As requested at http://cygwin.com/bugs.html,
please include the output of 'cygcheck -s -v -r'
(as an attachment).

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* Trouble with fresh install of Cygwin
@ 2002-10-30  6:56 Pflugshaupt Kaspar (KPMR)
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From: Pflugshaupt Kaspar (KPMR) @ 2002-10-30  6:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'

Hello,

I've just installed Cygwin from the Web onto a Windows NT 4.0 machine. I chose the defaults plus the "man" package. On logging in, some things do not work:

"man cmd" gives (for cmd = anything)
"/usr/bin/tbl: not found
 /usr/bin/groff: not found"

Both programs are installed, though, and can be called from the command line just fine. They are within the $PATH, too.

"info" gives
"info: dir: No such file or directory"

although /usr/info is present and well populated.

Does anybody have an idea what's going on?


> I've attached the output of "cygcheck -c" below.
> 
Cheers

Kaspar Pflugshaupt


Cygwin Package Information
Package             Version             
_update-info-dir    00077-1             
ash                 20020731-1          
base-files          1.0-1               
base-passwd         1.0-1               
bash                2.05b-5             
cygutils            1.1.2-1             
cygwin              1.3.14-1            
cygwin-doc          1.2-1               
diff                1.0-1               
diffutils           2.8.1-1             
fileutils           4.1-1               
findutils           4.1.7-4             
gawk                3.1.1-5             
gdbm                1.8.0-4             
grep                2.5-1               
groff               1.17.2-1            
gzip                1.3.3-4             
less                374-1               
libiconv2           1.8-2               
libintl1            0.10.40-1           
libintl2            0.11.5-1            
libncurses5         5.2-1               
libncurses6         5.2-8               
libpopt0            1.6.4-4             
libreadline4        4.1-2               
libreadline5        4.3-2               
login               1.4-4               
man                 1.5g-2              
ncurses             5.2-8               
newlib-man          20020801            
pcre                3.7-1               
pinfo               0.6.6p1-1           
readline            4.3-2               
sed                 3.02-1              
sh-utils            2.0-2               
tar                 1.13.25-1           
termcap             20020930-1          
terminfo            5.2-3               
texinfo             4.2-4               
textutils           2.0.21-1            
which               1.5-1               
zlib                1.1.4-1             


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