Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

[Chuck <skilover at bluebottle dot com>]

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 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
> 

I have completely reinstalled every cygwin package I previously had. I
deleted my old packages directory, renamed my old cygwin home directory,
and reinstalled everything fresh from mirrors.kernel.org into a
completely new cygwin home. I still have the same problem. I really
don't think it's a missing package.


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