1.7.1: Mintty/bash window start: -bash: regtool: command not found

[Warren Young]

On 12/23/2009 3:15 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
>
> I can reproduce this as follows:
>
> - Leave a Cygwin session open.
> - Run setup.exe
> - Select reinstall for cygwin-1.7.1-1.
> - Click next
> - "in-use files detected" appears
> - Click retry.

I saw the same symptom, but by a slightly different path.

On updating from 1.7.0.68 to 1.7.1 this morning, I ran into the 
files-in-use case because sometime last week, Xwin.exe died horribly and 
left a UI-less process running in the background.  When setup.exe 
complained, I investigated with Task Manager, found Xwin.exe still 
hanging around, killed it, and told setup.exe to move along.  It 
completed without complaint, but I still didn't end up with a regtool.

I didn't check for ps or mount, just retried setup with a forced Cygwin 
package reinstall, and that worked.

Point being, it isn't necessary to lie to setup.exe, telling it it's 
okay to try again.  It *was* okay in my case, and it still did the wrong 
thing.

> It can be fixed by reinstalling the cygwin package again, this time
> without any Cygwin processes running.

Confirmed.

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