X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 23:18:12 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: ls displays nothing - 3/29 snapshot Message-ID: <20060403031812.GA11935@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <200604021937 DOT k32JbMHL000678 AT tigris DOT pounder DOT sol DOT net> <20060402204331 DOT GA8710 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <200604022059 DOT k32KxqtK001046 AT tigris DOT pounder DOT sol DOT net> <200604030207 DOT k3327TdA002266 AT tigris DOT pounder DOT sol DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200604030207.k3327TdA002266@tigris.pounder.sol.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 09:07:28PM -0500, Tom Rodman wrote: >On Sun 4/2/06 15:59 CDT cygwin AT cygwin DOT com wrote: >>On Sun 4/2/06 16:43 EDT cygwin AT cygwin DOT com wrote: >>>On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 02:37:22PM -0500, Tom Rodman wrote: >>>>I installed the 3/29 cygwin1.dll snapshot yesterday on a test windows >>>>2000 box. Many (all?) of our cron jobs ran normally Sunday morning. >>>>Today, though, the output of 'ls' or 'ls -l' from an interactive bash >>>>session was always nothing. I've reverted back to the released >>>>cygwin1.dll, and ls is working again. >>>> >>>>Sorry for lack of details; not sure at what point the problem started >>>>showing up. >>> >>>That's ok. Minus any details, we'll just assume that you've done >>>something wrong and ignore the problem. >> >>I have a scroll log of all the shell commands I did on Sat/Sun, and >>logs from the cron jobs. Will post if I find anything helpful - so far >>nothing out of the ordinary shows up in STDERR; I'll go over the logs >>again .. > >The problem happens immediately for me with the 3/29 snapshot: What does "happens immediately" mean? It didn't happen with the 2006-03-26 snapshot? It happens more quickly than you'd expect? Did you reboot after installing the snapshot? If rebooting doesn't fix the problem then please send strace output from the following command to the list. c:\>strace -o/tmp/strace.out /bin/bash exec /bin/ls -l /etc/passwd cgf -- 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/