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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:26:53 +0100
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On 1/17/2012 1:52 PM, Tom Chiverton wrote:
> And here is a report of the message. Let's see if that works OK now
> the attachment is in the archive :
>
> ls on my Windows XP box recently stopped working. Running an update
> from the latest setup.exe hasn't helped.

your cygwin dll is 1.7.7 while last one is 1.7.9,
so your update did not work.

>
> If I type just 'ls', not output. Same for 'ls bin' when I know that
> folder has stuff in. 'ls bin[tab][tab]' shows the files as expected:
> tchiverton AT EV34:~$ ls

so you are in your own home directory, that was not clear from
your description.
How are you running the shell and which is ?

> tchiverton AT EV34:~$ ls bin
> tchiverton AT EV34:~$ ls bin/
 > findEmptySvnDirs.sh  sync-mp3.sh
 > tchiverton AT EV34:~$ ls bin/

what is the output of "ls -la ." ?

>
> Attached is cygcheck output run from a bash prompt, it moaned a little when run:
> tchiverton AT EV34:~$ cygcheck -s -v -r>  /cygdrive/c/cygcheck.txt
> garbled output from 'id' command - no uid= found

that is likely the issue.
On the cygcheck output, after the PATH and before

SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\system32
WinDir: C:\WINDOWS

you should have something like

Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe
UID: 1008(marco)    GID: 513(None)
513(None)           0(root)             544(Administrators) 545(Users)

Have you problems or messed with the files:
/etc/passwd
/etc/group

Regards
Marco

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