From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 93970 invoked by alias); 13 Apr 2017 13:29:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 93957 invoked by uid 89); 13 Apr 2017 13:29:33 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*MI:sk:_p75fX_, H*MI:sk:CAMZ6u3, dear, Dear X-HELO: mail-wm0-f52.google.com Received: from mail-wm0-f52.google.com (HELO mail-wm0-f52.google.com) (74.125.82.52) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 13 Apr 2017 13:29:32 +0000 Received: by mail-wm0-f52.google.com with SMTP id u2so46865199wmu.0 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2017 06:29:33 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=WRI7bVgPIM7dJI9iFVJtbCoJU40xbh8c3OoHC6Mjemk=; b=t4EAd08Qr9SHIeRio68T4eWAGmdFMyg4n8fBIfkHlqvSA6f+MLTNtWe8xVfWTyRcyj 9L0Ih0hyPPPwtutYU/2nMNJy4fVphlTnSGvDpqW7kzi54SD+AF3QqvveD0QG/bwfIgFf XDh4BbUcDukW8Hr6eFag0cZ25rBN/mgErl4zCM5/PgsbNIfd98pCTsMdc6Gyy5iAt0Xa BkEW/4Unrnrw3sHFw5LErm9fyN5szuN0VOSg8qeGA+ilWJrTFoQRrRLG6xJ7PNnuVQfD tUfQ+Y0yarPh/7nyts9480FonJejQatB2GutVq90Dx6zSoo2ogKaArEpiekvWNNRQdEK zKgg== X-Gm-Message-State: AN3rC/7nBPKBl+yYMhbYTuHNvFghM39NNanlGTIWE4Q7EEfLXulLXdZx NwnSGZEQDTOunSV+ X-Received: by 10.28.69.68 with SMTP id s65mr3447514wma.13.1492090171715; Thu, 13 Apr 2017 06:29:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.21.188.226] ([149.6.156.42]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id 3sm23424510wrv.33.2017.04.13.06.29.30 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 13 Apr 2017 06:29:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: /bin/ gets deleted on error To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: <2e414043-4f34-5de7-4274-4b2937944207@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:03:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-04/txt/msg00151.txt.bz2 On 13/04/2017 15:13, Felipe Vieira wrote: > Dear cygwin mailing list, > > For the second time this week my /bin/ folder gets obliterated on an > error during normal usage. It is equivalent of doing the infamous "rm > -rf /bin" . > > 1) I would like to know if there is a log for cygwin somewhere so I > can be more useful in specifying what happened. > > 2) My 'specs' are: windows 7 64 bits with cygwin64 . I wonder if > cygwin64 is considered 'stable'. extremely stable > From what I recall the terminal was spamming messages containing the > words "fork" , "-1" and some others which I don't recall. And what I > did was trying to run a normal zsh script. > > I am not able to tell exactly what I did on both occasions to trigger > this behavior. any history file on your home directory ? > > Nevertheless thanks for the great software. If it were not for you > guys I don't know how I could cope with Windows. > > Best, > > Felipe Vieira. > Regards Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple