Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

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
>> scripts any more, either.  
>>  
>> The other two of us that upgraded last week to the latest Windows cygwin do
>> NOT have this "ls" problem.  "ls" works fine.
>
>I thought it might be a problem with cygwin too so I rolled back the
>cygwin kernel to version 1.5.23-1, and coreutils to 6.4-1. That didn't help.
>
>I'm glad someone else is reporting this. Maybe there's a real problem here.
>
>What hw/os is your colleague working on? Mine is a Dell D610 laptop,
>Windows XP SP2 with all latest patches.

I doubt that this particular problem is anything other than a missing
package, actually.

The details listed at http://cygwin.com/problems.html would probably be
helpful.

cgf

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