Updated: cygwin-1.5.22-1
Larry Hall (Cygwin)
reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Mon Nov 20 21:29:00 GMT 2006
towo@computer.org wrote:
> After recent updates (including cygwin1.dll, bash), starting an rxvt
> showed the following message:
>
> : command not found
> : command not found
> : command not found
> : command not found
> : command not found
> ': not a valid identifier
> : command not found
> ': not a valid identifier
> : command not found
> ': not a valid identifier
> : command not found
> ': not a valid identifier
> : command not found
> : command not found
> bash: /etc/profile: line 63: syntax error near unexpected token `done'
> 'ash: /etc/profile: line 63: ` done <<- EOF
>
> So I looked into /etc/profile and it turned out to have DOS line-ends!
You must have had a '/etc/profile' that you edited to contain DOS line
endings. Perhaps you switched from DOS to UNIX mounts during this
upgrade? In any case, the change you made is correct.
> After fixing this manually, rxvt would start normally, except -
> I suddenly had a US keyboard layout! (On a German keyboard.)
Perhaps this is caused by DOS line endings in other config files you
have?
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