Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

[Chuck <skilover at bluebottle dot com>]

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 thread is likely
>>> to have been caused by exactly what I said.
>>>
>> Why on earth do you think I'm jumping on every problem as being my
>> problem?  I have limited this discussion to one problem - my problem -
>> all along.  Another poster mentioned having the same symptom.  The
>> *exact* same symptomn - no output from ls.  How is that jumping on
>> every other error and claiming it's mine?
> 
> I apologize for my hyperbole.  What I am trying to get across is that
> doesn't benefit anyone to have you respond to messages from anyone who
> maintains that they are getting no output as if they had your problem.
> 
>> How can it be caused by a missing package when I have used cygwin
>> successfully for years,
> 
> Once again, I am not saying that the problem that the OP had is the same
> as yours.  We have seen the problem shown by the OP before and it has
> been caused by a missing package.  Specifically, it has been caused by
> a missing cygintl* package.
> 
> There is no reason for you to react to this as if I am trying to debug your
> problem when I am not.  I don't know why you are not getting this but it
> is, IMO, likely that the problem that the OP had is not the same as yours.
> Even if it is the same as yours, we need to do some basic sanity checks before
> we come to that conclusion.
> 
>> You're jumping on me like I haven't followed "the rules". I have
>> followed all the directions, read the FAQs, searched the archives,
>> posted cygcheck and strace output, and described *my* problem in detail.
>> What else am I supposed to do?
> 
> I am asking you to let the volunteers in this mailing list debug
> problems without your interjecting comments which confuse the issue.
> Feel free to try to debug the problem in your own message threads but
> please don't confuse other people reporting problems until we've done
> some basic narrowing down of root causes and shown that you have similar
> problems.
> 
> cgf
> 

I am the OP.


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