X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:25:11 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes Message-ID: <20070213152511.GA15916@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <021d01c74ef6$b40c1300$8532a8c0 AT M6> <20070213004722 DOT GB29270 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 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. -- 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/