On Dec 16 12:25, John Morrison wrote: > On Tue, December 16, 2008 12:09 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > So far I'm not able to reproduce this. Every time I reboot, the shell > > comes up just fine. > > > > For testing purposes I created an /etc/group file of >28000 entries. > > I also switched my home directory by adding a fstab entry along the lines > > of "D:/home/corinna --> /home/corinna", but to no avail. > > > > I tested this on a Vista machine which is domain member of a 2K8 domain > > with a domain admin account with UAC enabled. > > > > I'll try later again on an XP machine. > > XP sp2
No go either. I rebooted multiple times and every time it was fine passwd/group-wise. > > Is your account an admin account or a normal user account? I don't > > know but maybe that makes some difference. > > I have local admin rights (ie, only on this machine), but it's a domain > account (hope that makes sense). It does. I tried with an admin account which is also Domain Admin and I tried with a non-admin account which is just member of Domain Users and some other plain group. > > Maybe that goes without saying, but somebody actually debugging this > > who can reproduce this behaviour would be a great help... > > I've altered the cygwin.bat file changing > > bash --login -i > > to > > strace -o c:\strace.txt bash --login -i > > but I've yet to reproduce it since I made the modification :( (and even > if it did, I wouldn't know what to look for in the 11MB+ trace!) You don't have to. If it occurs under strace, I can take a look. Maybe we have to add additional debug output, though. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/