Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/11/30/14:16:07
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:14:51PM -0800, David Hinds wrote:
>A couple days ago, I tried to update a quite old cygwin installation
>on a Windows XP SP2 box to the latest (1.5.12-1). After the update,
>all Cygwin programs exit immediately and silently. I've tried
>scrubbing the Windows registry of anything with a "Cyg" in it,
>deleting the Cygwin tree, and reinstalling from scratch, with the same
>result. Running "strace" on any Cygwin program shows apparently
>normal output (as far as I can tell) up to a point; and then zippo.
>
>For example, here's the end of 'strace ls':
>
> 149 42033 [main] ls 4072 pwdgrp::load: /etc/group
> 140 42173 [main] ls 4072 pwdgrp::load: strange path_conv problem
> 140 42313 [main] ls 4072 pwdgrp::load: /etc/group load failed
> 152 42465 [main] ls 4072 __cygwin_lock_lock: threadcount 1. not locking
> 151 42616 [main] ls 4072 __cygwin_lock_unlock: threadcount 1. not unlocking
> 148 42764 [main] ls 4072 pwdgrp::read_group: Completing /etc/group: mkpasswd:S-1-5-21-1844237615-725345543-682003330-513:401:dhinds
> 442 43206 [main] ls 4072 cygheap_user::ontherange: what 2, pw 0x10011018
> 147 43353 [main] ls 4072 cygheap_user::ontherange: HOME is already in the environment /cygdrive/h
> 684 44037 [main] ls 4072 sigproc_init: process/signal handling enabled(1)
> 176 44213 [main] ls 4072 __cygwin_lock_lock: threadcount 1. not locking
> 167 44380 [main] ls 4072 __cygwin_lock_unlock: threadcount 1. not unlocking
>
>Some commands get as far as executing build_argv(). I'm not sure what
>to do next: has anyone seen anything like this before? Or, can anyone
>suggest how to go about debugging this?
Since this strace is bound to be pretty small, please send the complete strace
here for perusal.
cgf
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