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Re: ls displays nothing - 3/29 snapshot


On Sun 4/2/06 23:18 EDT cgf wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 09:07:28PM -0500, Tom Rodman wrote:
> >On Sun 4/2/06 15:59 CDT cygwin@cygwin.com wrote:
> >>On Sun 4/2/06 16:43 EDT cygwin@cygwin.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.
--snip
> >The problem happens immediately for me with the 3/29 snapshot:
> 
> What does "happens immediately" mean?  

If I run "ls" as the first command after loading the new
snapshot, "ls" sends nothing to STDOUT.  I had guessed that
the problem did not show up right away, but was wrong.

> 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?

no

> 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

Thanks for the help.  I rebooted this morning; the problem is still there.

Then, I ran:

  C:\>c:\aut\cyg\bin\strace -o/tmp/strace.out /bin/bash
  bash-3.00$ exec /bin/ls -l /etc/passwd

Attachment: strace.out
Description: strace bash session output

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