From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 125912 invoked by alias); 17 Apr 2017 17:10:14 -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 125894 invoked by uid 89); 17 Apr 2017 17:10:13 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=infamous, spamming, recall, dear X-HELO: mail-lf0-f54.google.com Received: from mail-lf0-f54.google.com (HELO mail-lf0-f54.google.com) (209.85.215.54) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 17 Apr 2017 17:10:12 +0000 Received: by mail-lf0-f54.google.com with SMTP id c80so17840819lfh.3 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2017 10:10:13 -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:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=DJi/vxQxn1yxPLKZk05z/arGWhR9B1+Su3l5QWOFGUU=; b=DxqE0MqL9qD8EKPBr7k+dRlKxRD4McaQknIAuZ3LjF2JsahyN44Vc/bxOxaayA2fqG r0VBnKrHdiKQBmFgez7Q5Q7f/Yjsi6Mz2mpjfqTD+M+n7aR3OrCczT5MKfYXp5dE2w5N c87yENDLI7f+qLhOYJXftrB4eh1icFC3AJtS8vz7CD1+vObTT7H2I+1HS3SzFqjDSDn2 6mdchmgoftEWDyOnMvcZt04A4nIAMdAyvuKanhGli/vEol/FcXmeejaRziC84ih4da3V eYRRG45p/gP9UaYCASdJLHXC0KM4tc6ixDb293UBD80pbzrrdvlE3czeDMSQhYHh6/wg EzHw== X-Gm-Message-State: AN3rC/43Ka2ln+UA7cA/VF83tHhslGu7ABGJjoxhl4+Y59Pa6LaZU9de QW8Mc5L7aNYTmoRFyhh3R6sNtb61Tlhi X-Received: by 10.25.20.156 with SMTP id 28mr3651072lfu.23.1492449011719; Mon, 17 Apr 2017 10:10:11 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.46.74.1 with HTTP; Mon, 17 Apr 2017 10:10:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Felipe Vieira Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 12:37:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: /bin/ gets deleted on error To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-SW-Source: 2017-04/txt/msg00221.txt.bz2 On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 10:13 AM, 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'. > > 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. > > 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. Guys I am not able to provide more information on this issue. I'll be more cautious in copying the exact error message next time this happens. Thanks for all of your help! Best, Felipe Vieira. -- 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