X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 14:58:23 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [1.7] Editing in /etc Message-ID: <20090302135823.GA32160@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <2bf229d30902271645u74a7beb3n64b3312e2889e30b@mail.gmail.com> <2bf229d30902271853w1f4f8da5w5728fa179e2bdf30@mail.gmail.com> <2bf229d30902280210h7e39865bw7ff889c879c9f081@mail.gmail.com> <2bf229d30903020536h632e001dg6e1252d359993548@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <2bf229d30903020536h632e001dg6e1252d359993548@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Mar 2 08:36, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > >> Looks like it's related to some issue reading stdin... I executed vim > >> in debug mode ('vim -D passwd') and got the following: > > > > Fixed...  I messed up the permissions in my /dev directory. > > Perhaps I spoke to soon... I'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 executed 'mkpasswd -l -c > /etc/passwd' which again acted as > expected, and the /etc/passwd file was created. I 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? What happens if you start vim without the -D flag? > > 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 2006 /proc/self/fd/0 -> /dev/tty0 > > however, there is no /dev/tty0. Should there be? If so, how do I create it? http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-posixdevices > 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. This is a typical case where you just have to debug this. Strace might reveal a problem here. Or maybe it's a BLODA problem. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/