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Date: | Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:41:05 -0500 |
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Subject: | Re: [1.7] Editing in /etc |
From: | Chris Sutcliffe <ir0nh34d AT gmail DOT com> |
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>> Perhaps I spoke to soon... =A0I'm still having the issue, this time with >> a domain based user. > > I can't reproduce that, neither from a console window, nor from a mintty > window. I've tried from both a console window and mintty and experience the same behaviour. >> I executed 'mkpasswd -l -c > /etc/passwd' which again acted as >> expected, and the /etc/passwd file was created. =A0I went to edit the >> file with 'vim -D /etc/passwd' to change the users' default group and >> vim again displayed the message about an error opening input. > > So this does not only occur in /etc? =A0What happens if you start vim > without the -D flag? This only occurs for any file in /etc. For simplicity, I tried: $ cd /etc $ echo "Some text" > test.txt $ cat test.txt Some text $ vim text.txt and all I get is a screen with nothing but "test.txt" in the lower left hand corner. >> Looking in /dev I have: > > The content of /dev shouldn't matter, in theory. > >> $ ls -ltr /proc/self/fd/0 >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 csutclif Users 0 Nov 30 =A02006 /proc/self/fd/0 -> /dev/tty0 >> >> however, there is no /dev/tty0. =A0Should there be? =A0If so, how do I c= reate it? > > http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-pos= ixdevices Ah, so the permissions on tty0 look correct: $ ls -l /dev/tty0 crw-rw-rw- 1 csutclif Users 136, 0 Nov 30 2006 /dev/tty0 >> I'm at a loss here, could anybody hazard an idea as to what could be >> happening, or how I could further debug the issue? > > Maybe something in /etc is making problems but I can't imagine what that > is. =A0This is a typical case where you just have to debug this. =A0Strace > might reveal a problem here. =A0Or maybe it's a BLODA problem. How do I capture the strace output to a file? I tried 'strace vim /etc/passwd > strace.out' but vim complained about stdout being redirected. Thanx! Chris --=20 Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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