Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

2007-02-14 Thread Chuck
Shankar Unni wrote: Chuck wrote: Any other ideas? Anyone? Have you followed the problem reporting guidelines at http://cygwin.com/problems.html ? Also, if you are familiar with strace, you may want to run strace /bin/ls in your /cygdrive directory, and see if anything obvious (to you)

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

2007-02-13 Thread Chuck
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

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

2007-02-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
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

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

2007-02-13 Thread Chuck
Christopher Faylor wrote: 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. Why on earth do

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

2007-02-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:06:29AM -0500, Chuck wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: 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

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

2007-02-13 Thread Chuck
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:06:29AM -0500, Chuck wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: 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

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

2007-02-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:37:43PM -0500, Chuck wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:06:29AM -0500, Chuck wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: 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

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

2007-02-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:47:05PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:37:43PM -0500, Chuck wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:06:29AM -0500, Chuck wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: You have no basis for jumping on every potential cockpit error

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

2007-02-13 Thread Chuck
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

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

2007-02-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 03:04:40PM -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

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

2007-02-13 Thread Chuck
Christopher Faylor wrote: I have apologized for my previous confusion and imprecise language but it seems like there might still be lingering confusion on your part as a result. There was. Apologies. I hope that the above clarification serves to put this issue to rest and that you will

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

2007-02-13 Thread Shankar Unni
Chuck wrote: Any other ideas? Anyone? Have you followed the problem reporting guidelines at http://cygwin.com/problems.html ? Also, if you are familiar with strace, you may want to run strace /bin/ls in your /cygdrive directory, and see if anything obvious (to you) pops up. Else, you

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

2007-02-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 03:05:35PM -0800, Shankar Unni wrote: Chuck wrote: Any other ideas? Anyone? Have you followed the problem reporting guidelines at http://cygwin.com/problems.html ? Also, if you are familiar with strace, you may want to run strace /bin/ls in your /cygdrive directory, and

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

2007-02-12 Thread Shankar Unni
Chuck wrote: $ cd /cygdrive $ ls $ ls -a . .. c g h k s $ ls -a $ ls -a Hmm. Can't replicate this on my system. Nor can I replicate your other report, about corrupted ls output. You should definitely report a problem in the format described by http://cygwin.com/problems.html.

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

2007-02-12 Thread Dennis Simpson
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

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

2007-02-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
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. For the problem with running

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

2007-02-12 Thread Chuck
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

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

2007-02-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
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

ls not showing anything - sometimes

2007-02-09 Thread Chuck
I started noticing a strange problem recently. When I am in the /cygdrive directory I can't ls anything most of the time. Same thing sometimes happens in my home directory too but it happens less often. Here's some sample output. As you can see the /cygdrive $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1