A couple days ago, I tried to update a quite old cygwin installation on a Windows XP SP2 box to the latest (1.5.12-1). After the update, all Cygwin programs exit immediately and silently. I've tried scrubbing the Windows registry of anything with a "Cyg" in it, deleting the Cygwin tree, and reinstalling from scratch, with the same result. Running "strace" on any Cygwin program shows apparently normal output (as far as I can tell) up to a point; and then zippo.
For example, here's the end of 'strace ls': 149 42033 [main] ls 4072 pwdgrp::load: /etc/group 140 42173 [main] ls 4072 pwdgrp::load: strange path_conv problem 140 42313 [main] ls 4072 pwdgrp::load: /etc/group load failed 152 42465 [main] ls 4072 __cygwin_lock_lock: threadcount 1. not locking 151 42616 [main] ls 4072 __cygwin_lock_unlock: threadcount 1. not unlocking 148 42764 [main] ls 4072 pwdgrp::read_group: Completing /etc/group: mkpasswd:S-1-5-21-1844237615-725345543-682003330-513:401:dhinds 442 43206 [main] ls 4072 cygheap_user::ontherange: what 2, pw 0x10011018 147 43353 [main] ls 4072 cygheap_user::ontherange: HOME is already in the environment /cygdrive/h 684 44037 [main] ls 4072 sigproc_init: process/signal handling enabled(1) 176 44213 [main] ls 4072 __cygwin_lock_lock: threadcount 1. not locking 167 44380 [main] ls 4072 __cygwin_lock_unlock: threadcount 1. not unlocking Some commands get as far as executing build_argv(). I'm not sure what to do next: has anyone seen anything like this before? Or, can anyone suggest how to go about debugging this? -- Dave -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
