I have fixed it, after writing you, with: pacman -S --needed base
Ciao, Angelo. Il 31/01/2017 09:27, David Macek ha scritto: > On 30. 1. 2017 15:48, Angelo Graziosi wrote: >> Today there was a MSYS2 base upgrade. Now starting MinTTY prints: >> >> -bash: getent: comando non trovato >> >> beside this I notice that now the prompt is for "root" user >> >> foo@my_PC MSYS ~ >> # >> >> this is WRONG in principle! Even if 'foo' is the only, and so, >> administrator, user of PC, MinTTY, usually, is not started as administrator. >> If one wants this, one have to use right mouse button and choose 'Run as >> administrator'. On Windows works this way. Only if one uses 'Run as >> administrator' using '#' has meaning otherwise it is WRONG. Suppose one day >> it is found the way to use 'sudo' on MSYS2.. you would have to re-change to >> the old way using "$".. > > I know. The update was supposed to add a detection mechanism that chooses > between `$` and `#` based on the "Administrator" status of the process. > Unfortunately, we didn't solve how to get the required `getent` package to > users before pushing the `filesystem` package update. > > I pushed a fix (Alexey will have to build and upload) that will at least > disable the function when `getent` isn't available, but the goal should be to > improve our update process so that everyone gets new packages in `base`. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Msys2-users mailing list Msys2-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users
