On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 06:06:06PM -0000, John Morrison wrote: >On Tue, December 16, 2008 4:06 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> 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. > >I'll keep trying it, but I've only seen it at work and I can't keep >rebooting! I've got to do *some* work ;) > >I'm *sure* I've seen it without having to reboot. Are you planning >another release of the dll soon(ish)? Does cygwin do anything if/when it >detects that the dll has changed? I've tried 'touch'ing it, that didn't >trigger anything.
If you want to update just the DLL you could always try a snapshot: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ cgf -- 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/
