On 01 August 2006 00:02, Alex Eng wrote: > On 7/31/06, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Alex? http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR please. >> On Jul 30 09:27, Alex Eng wrote: >>> On 7/30/06, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> On Jul 29 19:29, Alex Eng wrote: >>>>> After editing a file, the timestamp on the file (according to ls -l) >>>>> is unchanged. However if stat <filename> is executed, the change >>>>> timestamp given in the output differs from that given in ls -l: >>>> I can't reproduce this problem at all. [...] >>> >>> I disabled Norton Antivirus 2005 and ZoneAlarm firewall, but the problem >>> is still present. >>> >>> I did some further troubleshooting and found that this problem doesn't >>> occur anymore if I'm running Cygwin while Windows XP is in safe mode. >>> But it happens again if I start Windows using the "Safe Mode With >>> Networking" option. I've been able to reproduce this consistently. >> >> This points to some bad interaction with another piece of software on >> your machine. Probably something which installed a driver module. >> > > Did some more investigation - the problem doesn't occur if I edit the > file in CMD.EXE, using the EDIT text editor, nor does it occur if I > edit the file using regular Windows apps like Notepad, WordPad, etc. > A driver problem is definitely a possibility (I'm already suspecting > the NVIDIA nForce chipset drivers), and will look into it. Take a look into HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Control/SafeBoot in the registry. Look at what's under the 'minimal' and 'network' subkeys and you should be able to narrow it down to one of the drivers/services that's in 'network' but not in 'minimal'. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/
