Re: Updated: fish-2.2.0-1 (test release)

Re: Updated: fish-2.2.0-1 (test release)

[Kelley Cook]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Andrew Schulman
<schulman.andrew@epa.gov> wrote:
>
>
> 1. You may see errors when fish starts, saying that "Old versions of fish appear
> to be running."  This is because of architectural changes (removal of fishd)
> from fish 2.1 to 2.2.  If you see this, please try the following things:
>
> * Kill all running instances of fish and, especially, fishd (pkill fish, or
> killall fish).
>
> * Remove all directories /tmp/fishd.* (rm -rf /tmp/fishd.*)
>
> * If necessary, rm ~/.config/fish/fishd.* .  But this probably will remove all
> of your stored universal variables.
>
> Then restart fish.  If the error messages persist, please report that to the
> cygwin list.
>

Andrew,

I followed these instructions and it still told me there were old
version running.

However, the message went away after I also removed a
/tmp/fish.<username> directory [note this was fish not fishd]

Kelley

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Re: Updated: fish-2.2.0-1 (test release)

[Andrew Schulman]

> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Andrew Schulman
> <schulman.andrew@epa.gov> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 1. You may see errors when fish starts, saying that "Old versions of fish appear
> > to be running."  This is because of architectural changes (removal of fishd)
> > from fish 2.1 to 2.2.  If you see this, please try the following things:
> >
> > * Kill all running instances of fish and, especially, fishd (pkill fish, or
> > killall fish).
> >
> > * Remove all directories /tmp/fishd.* (rm -rf /tmp/fishd.*)
> >
> > * If necessary, rm ~/.config/fish/fishd.* .  But this probably will remove all
> > of your stored universal variables.
> >
> > Then restart fish.  If the error messages persist, please report that to the
> > cygwin list.
> >
> 
> Andrew,
> 
> I followed these instructions and it still told me there were old
> version running.
> 
> However, the message went away after I also removed a
> /tmp/fish.<username> directory [note this was fish not fishd]

Ugh - right.  Typo in my message and in the postinstall script, which tries to
do this for you.  Fixed for 2.2.0-2.  Thanks.

Andrew


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