Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/02/13/10:25:34
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:36:44AM -0500, Chuck wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 06:04:57PM -0500, Chuck wrote:
>>> Dennis Simpson wrote:
>>>> One co-worker downloaded the latest Windows cygwin last week. His "ls"
>>>> command now consistently does not return anything, regardless of what
>>>> directory he is in. This is in addition to not being able to run shell
>>>> scripts any more, either.
>>>>
>>>> The other two of us that upgraded last week to the latest Windows cygwin do
>>>> NOT have this "ls" problem. "ls" works fine.
>>> I thought it might be a problem with cygwin too so I rolled back the
>>> cygwin kernel to version 1.5.23-1, and coreutils to 6.4-1. That didn't help.
>>>
>>> I'm glad someone else is reporting this. Maybe there's a real problem here.
>>>
>>> What hw/os is your colleague working on? Mine is a Dell D610 laptop,
>>> Windows XP SP2 with all latest patches.
>>
>> I doubt that this particular problem is anything other than a missing
>> package, actually.
>>
>> The details listed at http://cygwin.com/problems.html would probably be
>> helpful.
>
>I don't think it's a missing package. I've been using cygwin succesfully
> for years and suddenly last week the "ls" command stopped working. I
>haven't uninstalled or installed anything . All I've done recently is
>apply the latest kernel package (1.5.24-2). I will repost the problem
>along with cygcheck output
"this particular problem" == "the problem reported in this thread"
You have no basis for jumping on every potential cockpit error and claim
it is YA occurrence of your problem. I don't know what is causing your
problem but the problem reported in this thread is likely to have been
caused by exactly what I said.
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