From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21639 invoked by alias); 29 Mar 2012 23:45:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 21629 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Mar 2012 23:45:19 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_YG,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from plane.gmane.org (HELO plane.gmane.org) (80.91.229.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:45:05 +0000 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SDP1b-0007i2-Ok for cygwin@cygwin.com; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:45:03 +0200 Received: from 170.35.224.65 ([170.35.224.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:45:03 +0200 Received: from aps_wrk by 170.35.224.65 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:45:03 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew Subject: Re: 1.7.11-1 Update returns non-zero exit codes for coreutils Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <20120328170130.M51882@ds.net> <4F7347D2.8050308@cygwin.com> <20120328172709.M58531@ds.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2012-03/txt/msg00800.txt.bz2 Brian Wilson ds.net> writes: > > > > While I can run the Cygwin terminal window, there appears to be a very serious > > > issue as I can't run commands like "cd", "ls", or "cygcheck" either. > > > > Can you tell us what this means? How did you determine that you can't run these commands? > > I opened the cygwin terminal and got the usual shell prompt. I entered the "cd" or "ls" commands and got a > command not found error. I echoed > $PATH and saw that the path didn't look correct (which is why I assume the commands couldn't be found). I > would have expected to see /usr/bin and > /usr/local/bin in the path somewhere. I didn't try giving the full path to these commands to see if the > commands would have worked (I assume they > would, but will confirm tonight). > > I opened an Explorer session and went to C:\cygwin\bin and I could see the ls.exe and cygcheck.exe files > were present so I presumed the issue was > with the $PATH not being set correctly. > > > > I can't run cygcheck or I would try to give the output as an attachment. > > > > So you're saying c:\cygwin\bin\cygcheck.exe doesn't run from cmd.exe? > > True for c:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe too? What feedback do you get? > > I got the command not found error when I tried to run cygcheck from the shell. Stupidly, I didn't try with the > full path to the file in the shell. > I did open a windoz cmd window and ran the cygcheck command. There were errors (which I didn't bother to > record of course). I will repeat this > attempt and send the results this evening. > > Sincerely, > > Brian S. Wilson > > I just got this exact same thing and tried re-installing coreutils with no effect. Initially, I had been installing binutils, and was told to restart because I had left a cygwin console open during the install. Interested to hear what is known about this (recent) issue. -- 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