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Date:  Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:02:17 -0500
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Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> Chuck wrote:
>> Folks I could really use some help here. I still cannot get the ls
>> command to work reliably. It worked for years and about two weeks ago
>> started sputtering.  I have completely unstalled all cygwin packages,
>> deleted the directories, and reinstalled from scratch. Even just
>> installing the bare mimimum packages and running a bash shell without X
>> or even a .profile, ls still fails to output anything 50% of the time.
>>
>> One other observation I've made is there's a similar program named
>> "dir.exe" in the /usr/bin directory. It seems to do pretty much the same
>> thing as ls. In fact the file sizes and timestamps are even the same. It
>> works every time. I could just alias ls=/usr/bin/dir but that seems more
>> like a work-around rather than fixing the real problem. Can anyone help
>> with this? TIA
> 
> Can you trim it down to a simple directory with a file or two?  If not,
> can you determine what is key to making it happen?  You may have mentioned
> these before but I don't recall and didn't see them in my review of the
> thread:
> 
>   - Do you see this when running locally?  From ssh?
>   - Does it reproduce in bash?  In bash run from cmd.exe?
>   - Is CYGWIN environment variable still unset?
> 

Most of the info was in a thread from last week but in answer to the
immediate questions...

Nothing seems to be key to making it happen. It *usually* happens the
first 3 or 4 times I try to ls a directory, then it works 90% of the
time for that directory. The /cygdrive directory

I see it running locally. Local is the only way I run. I do not have
sshd installed.

It reproduces in bash and pdksh whether I run from cmd.exe or xterm.

If run from cmd.exe using the batch file, CYGWIN=tty. If run via an
xterm it's not set.

I can reproduce the problem even on a directory with only one file.

Thanks for looking into this.


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