From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13873 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2013 16:26:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 13860 invoked by uid 89); 6 Dec 2013 16:26:29 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: limerock04.mail.cornell.edu Received: from Unknown (HELO limerock04.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.12.60) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 06 Dec 2013 16:26:29 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite3.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.8]) by limerock04.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id rB6GQLHt022515 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2013 11:26:21 -0500 Received: from [128.84.234.244] (dhcp244.math.cornell.edu [128.84.234.244]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id rB6GQIhx010296 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2013 11:26:21 -0500 Message-ID: <52A1FAAA.9090708@cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 16:26:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: emacs won't run References: <529EF3CA.2050108@netfence.it> <529F0A4B.4060901@gmail.com> <52A076A5.5050207@netfence.it> <52A1D04E.7000309@netfence.it> In-Reply-To: <52A1D04E.7000309@netfence.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2013-12/txt/msg00126.txt.bz2 On 12/6/2013 8:25 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 andrea mkgroup 23 11 set 12.22 /usr/bin/emacs -> >> /etc/alternatives/emacs >> $ ls -l /etc/alternatives/emacs >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 andrea mkgroup 22 11 set 12.22 /etc/alternatives/emacs -> >> /usr/bin/emacs-X11.exe I don't know if this explains your emacs problem, but the group "mkgroup" indicates that /etc/group (and possibly /etc/passwd) should be rebuilt Don't you get a message about this when you start a shell? 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