Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Sensitivity: Subject: WinNT/Cygwin.dll 1.3.2x-1 problem To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: From: "Arthur I Schwarz" Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 19:50:00 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I'm not sure that I'm a good enough observer to have captured my problems but let me tell you what I have. There are five issues: OS: WinNT 1.. We work in a networked environment with a 'floating' profile. The network stored profile is downloaded to any computer we are logged onto. Occassionally things go awry and the profile is not downloaded but a local profile is installed. When the local profile is deleted, the networked profile can again be downloaded. This happened and I had to create a new 'floating' profile. I have lost 'root' and the startup scripts do not execute in etc/ or in home/. Any way to fix this? 2.. In the same environment as above we run IBM (formerly Rational) Clear Case, roughly a CVT lookalike. It has been observed that when I execute Cygwin (Bash shell) on one of the Clear Case drives that at logoff there are some active Cygwin processes which never go away. When the process table gets full (for Clear Case I think), access to Clear Case becomes restricted for everyone. The workaround is to 'shutdown and restart'. This is only an issue in this environment. In networked environments with Clear Case installed this does not seem to be a problem. Are there any other solutions? 3.. In the same environment, "alias dir='ls -Al'" will occassionally stop? It seems to go into an infinite loop when it (sometimes) sees a directory entry. It just stops outputting directory information and the Bash shell prompt is never returned. But 'ls -Aln' works fine. This issue is not seen on networked computers without a 'floating profile' nor on any non-networked computers. 4.. In the same environment some UID's and GID's have a value of '65535' which is output as '?????' using 'ls -Al'. I've tried unsuccessfully to modify etc/passwd and etc/group to recognize these values. Any suggestions? 5.. In all environments I am unable to download my distribution to a CD-ROM and then use the CD to update existing Cygwin environments. Not all of the computers that I use are internet capable and the ability to update from a CD-ROM is necessary. This issue started with Cygwin.dll 1.3.21-1 which was distributed towards the end of March and has continued with the current version (1.3.22-1). thanks art -- 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/