From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 88298 invoked by alias); 20 May 2018 03:26:30 -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 88241 invoked by uid 89); 20 May 2018 03:26:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,GIT_PATCH_2,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=HX-Google-DKIM-Signature:sender, displays X-HELO: mail-it0-f48.google.com Received: from mail-it0-f48.google.com (HELO mail-it0-f48.google.com) (209.85.214.48) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 20 May 2018 03:26:23 +0000 Received: by mail-it0-f48.google.com with SMTP id c3-v6so17639348itj.4 for ; Sat, 19 May 2018 20:26:20 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:from:date:message-id:subject :to; bh=druJ/54cjmboliU6y8c+iljc22Os9Ap/v437iFLzbdk=; b=GIGzsALOhPqHjQBJkWyVckUFNWKrcEtsS9t4hNFMptnydI2uJb91Qd7YApTkgbPgVe efdz3s/O9A4QwVQAlexzwwD4cp/Vrstw+LMMWKb1iYsgIXXrQ9/1FokNt+SxoF6eNwWQ iYT7dkmfiB9aPE2+hwuPC/3NmhgjmZSajh8AJRleOHQji8wAHxDtn14tCsohXKltAbkP y6BEsX/ooUmNlvMdZfHFhIPxTsoDXKJFlDld3WVJHCs/+c6SbNlOBjF0bJ6NHzH4OdOY BaiowVCBK5aWwDA7r0E5DBTA/QEFrDf1y38NRjDIIDJwe8DJFQcIxzTrQUdr6Stz2DXL dqRQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALKqPwcnhcDGxNa8BPd1jthWHfWJcDZc+QfcF7HrWJtb4tzOHLW9JJCB YvZ9cqQKfO2mSaZ6jUK5eV4FoJ+LgA7KkfzYY5ZBFg== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AB8JxZoniuNUfeWnS/LI+zmO27n7RLfA1PscvcRCI3hVedVs1xyLo/EJShEvDoP/8x2rCEnWuC9z7PWGgsRj67poeEI= X-Received: by 2002:a24:d38d:: with SMTP id n135-v6mr13555695itg.75.1526786777758; Sat, 19 May 2018 20:26:17 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.82.209 with HTTP; Sat, 19 May 2018 20:26:17 -0700 (PDT) From: David Conrad Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 11:37:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: normal to blue-screen windows when doing 'ls -CF' of /proc/sys/GLOBAL?? (bug? cygcheck attached) To: cygwin mailing list Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-SW-Source: 2018-05/txt/msg00237.txt.bz2 On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 01:54 PM, L A Walsh wrote: > Very wierd. It triggers so fast, and whatever is causing it, likely > happens on a probe by 'ls' before ls even displays any output. > > I 'can' go into the same directory and do a "echo *" (or better, > printf "%s\n" * --- and that doesn't trigger it. > > I think I also triggered it once with 'tree'. Very annoying. > You could try writing a small C program that does a readdir of that directory and lstat of each file in it, logging what it's about to do before each step. That would let you narrow down which entry is triggering it, if that is indeed the cause. I think Michel LaBarre's suggestion of running chkdsk and sfc is a good one; strace also might help. -- 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