Help. Cygwin corrupting files

[Chuck]

Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Chuck wrote:
>> At first I thought my recent problems with cygwin were limited to the
>> occasional "ls" command listing nothing. Run it again an it works
>> (usually). Now the problems are getting worse. I tried to "rm" a file
>> that I own and it didn't fully delete it. It corrupted it. An ls of the
>> file shows this (that is, when the ls command works).
>>
>> $ ls -l
>> ls: cannot access bin_dirs.txt: No such file or directory
>> total 14
>> drwxr-xr-x+ 2 CHamilto Domain Users 0 Feb 9 14:50 ./
>> drwxr-xr-x+ 19 CHamilto Domain Users 0 Feb 9 14:33 ../
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 CHamilto Domain Users 3196 Feb 9 14:48 all_bin_dirs.txt
>> ??????????? ? ? ? ? ? bin_dirs.txt
>> -rwx------ 1 CHamilto Domain Users 368 Feb 9 14:33 chuck.sh*
>> -rwxrwx--- 1 CHamilto Domain Users 3069 Feb 9 11:06 cleanup_rman.sh*
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 CHamilto Domain Users 1491 Feb 9 14:08 servers
>> -rwxrwx--- 1 CHamilto Domain Users 270 Feb 9 14:50 upload.sh*
>>
>>
>> What is up with that? I can't access or remove the bin_dirs.txt file now
>> with either cygwin or windows. I tried resetting the owner but chown
>> fails too.
>>
>> $ chown "CHamilto:Domain Users" bin_dirs.txt
>> chown: cannot access `bin_dirs.txt': No such file or directory
>>
>>
>> I have tried reinstalling cygwin and coreutils to no avail. Did
>> something happen in a recent release of cygwin to explain this bizarre
>> behavior? I've been using cygwin for years and never experienced
>> anything like this. Please help!
> When I've seen this problem before (ls complaining file doesn't exist)
> it is usually because some other process has the file handle still open.
> Go to sysinternals.com and download and run Process Explorer. It has a
> facility to search for "handles" by strings. Search for "bin_dirs.txt"
> and find which process has that file open and either close the file
> handle or kill the process. Return the bash shell and repeat the ls. You
> should see no problem anymore.

It's not just *a* file. I'm trying to "ls" entire directories. Sometimes
I get nothing listed. Sometimes I get all the files listed. Sometimes I
get some of them. One strange thing is that I never see the last line of
output showing a partially filled line. It's always a complete line
which makes me think that maybe its the writing to stdout that's failing.


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