Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

[Frodak <frodak17 at yahoo dot com>]

--- Chuck wrote:

> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Have you checked if you can do similar operations
> with DOS commands?  I
> > believe what you're seeing here is a hardware
> (probably disk) problem.
> > Years ago I had a failing disk pick off files
> randomly for a while until
> > the whole thing finally went.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Everything works fine in windows both in the gui and
> at the dos prompt.
> I can create, edit, delete, and list files without
> issue. The problem
> seems to be confined entirely to cygwin and seems to
> be getting worse.
> Whereas at first it was just the ls command, not
> it's ls, rm, and
> sometimes my login .profile hangs. Not sure what
> command it's hanging
> on. Again it's all intermittent. Sometimes it works
> and sometimes it
> doesn't. It all does seem to be related to disk
> access though. For
> example ssh hasn't shown any problems yet.
> 
> I will scan the hd for errors but I don't expect to
> find any. This HD
> came with the my new laptop and is only about 6
> months old.
> 
> I think something either got corrupted in cygwin, or
> it's in conflict
> with something else that was recently installed. The
> only things I can
> remember installing recently are a few updates from
> MS, a new cygwin
> kernel (1.5.24-2), and DaemonTools for mounting CD
> image files as
> virtual drives. I uninstalled the latter but it made
> no difference. I
> also believe I saw the problem first occurring some
> time yesterday
> afternoon before installing DaemonTools.
> 
> 
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Back up your stuff.

This happened to me before days before ntfs.sys
deleted itself.  I then asked my boss for a new
hard-drive and then did a fresh windows install.

I had bizarre issues.

Amongst what you described that happened for a while,
the following occurred and increased in occurrence:

1) DR Watson kept on popping up sometimes when running
make.  Then it seemed to pop up randomly.  It never
did report what crashed, only that something had
crashed.
  
2) The environment would never be stable.  I'd open up
cmd.exe (10 times in a row) and sometimes the PATH
settings would be correct, otherwise it would be
truncated.

Good Luck,
Frodak


 
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