Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/08/02/15:21:11
On 01 August 2006 00:02, Alex Eng wrote:
> On 7/31/06, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT PCYMTNQREAIYR> wrote:
Alex? http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR please.
>> On Jul 30 09:27, Alex Eng wrote:
>>> On 7/30/06, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT PCYMTNQREAIYR> wrote:
>>>> On Jul 29 19:29, Alex Eng wrote:
>>>>> After editing a file, the timestamp on the file (according to ls -l)
>>>>> is unchanged. However if stat <filename> is executed, the change
>>>>> timestamp given in the output differs from that given in ls -l:
>>>> I can't reproduce this problem at all. [...]
>>>
>>> I disabled Norton Antivirus 2005 and ZoneAlarm firewall, but the problem
>>> is still present.
>>>
>>> I did some further troubleshooting and found that this problem doesn't
>>> occur anymore if I'm running Cygwin while Windows XP is in safe mode.
>>> But it happens again if I start Windows using the "Safe Mode With
>>> Networking" option. I've been able to reproduce this consistently.
>>
>> This points to some bad interaction with another piece of software on
>> your machine. Probably something which installed a driver module.
>>
>
> Did some more investigation - the problem doesn't occur if I edit the
> file in CMD.EXE, using the EDIT text editor, nor does it occur if I
> edit the file using regular Windows apps like Notepad, WordPad, etc.
> A driver problem is definitely a possibility (I'm already suspecting
> the NVIDIA nForce chipset drivers), and will look into it.
Take a look into HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Control/SafeBoot in the
registry. Look at what's under the 'minimal' and 'network' subkeys and you
should be able to narrow it down to one of the drivers/services that's in
'network' but not in 'minimal'.
cheers,
DaveK
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