On 25 January 2007 18:03, Steve Rowley wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:23:19 -0000
>> From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
>>
>> Seems like you don't have a valid /etc/groups file. You should fix that
>> first.
>
> My /etc/group file was made by:
>
> >$ mkgroup -lc >/etc/group
>
> Here are its current contents; if you can spot anything wrong, I'd be
> pleased to hear it. Perhaps I suffer from myopia due to staring at
> this all too long:
>
> >SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18:
> >None:S-1-5-21-473916646-3257906905-3362627345-513:513:
> >Administrators:S-1-5-32-544:544:
> >Backup Operators:S-1-5-32-551:551:
> >Guests:S-1-5-32-546:546:
> >Network Configuration Operators:S-1-5-32-556:556:
> >Power Users:S-1-5-32-547:547:
> >Remote Desktop Users:S-1-5-32-555:555:
> >Replicator:S-1-5-32-552:552:
> >Users:S-1-5-32-545:545:
> >Debugger Users:S-1-5-21-473916646-3257906905-3362627345-1004:1004:
> >HelpServicesGroup:S-1-5-21-473916646-3257906905-3362627345-1001:1001:
> >mkgroup_l_d:S-1-5-32-545:10545:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You are in a domain and you didn't use the -d option, hence the following
output in your cygcheck:
> 10545(mkgroup_l_d)
This could perhaps lead to cygwin getting confused about permissions.
>> Got any/and/or/all of: Agnitum outpost firewall, Kerio personal firewall,
>> Logitech web camera, or anything by Norton/Mcaffee/Symantec?
>
> I have Symantec AntiVirus, but none of the others you mention.
> Symantec AntiVirus I can't mess with, since it's installed in a
> nonmodifiable way by an IT department.
Does it have any "anti-spyware" or "suspicious behaviour blocking" features?
> However, since you suggested it, I checked the Symantec logs and it
> hasn't fired on anything for several weeks, which is how old this
> computer is. So it seems unlikely to be Symantec, no?
Doesn't prove anything; it can easily mess up cygwin without thinking cygwin
is a virus, it's just that the checking mechanisms are so crude and disruptive
they can easily break applications.
> However, see previous reply to Pierre in which it turned out that
> Microsoft's Windows Defender was strangling cygrunsrv. That was a
> definite problem, but when I uninstalled Windows Defender the
> underlying problem still remained. Definitely looks to me like
> something is preventing cygrunsrv from forking a process...
Symantec could /also/ be causing it. Also, I notice you didn't mention any
firewall at all?
cheers,
DaveK
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