From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Paul Umbers" Subject: Re: Git Cygwin - unable to create any repository - help! Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:13:56 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20080114202932.GA25130@steel.home> <20080116071832.GA2896@steel.home> <20080116183124.GA3181@steel.home> <20080116191737.GD3181@steel.home> <20080116234527.GA3499@steel.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Alex Riesen" , git@vger.kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" To: "Linus Torvalds" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 17 21:14:49 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JFb87-0006qc-1e for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:14:27 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752869AbYAQUN6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:13:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751711AbYAQUN6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:13:58 -0500 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.180]:63006 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752833AbYAQUN5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:13:57 -0500 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so1270437wah.23 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:13:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=X5gCK3GbkG01bqZwOsVxxFiFqVMa+TlJF5vzAzMXN50=; b=Z273UVN7eXLNGPdBMzIBqzweKKwcSRc1OqsARfmqom5XBWZGK4oxGEi8ISDCTa75PLfezn1RwhDu/6YoqlgDcdJQJ0DRufpHoItm8APIdwqqvzKVL8qDp8+eTXsP8ySMw5NmlfTlyc9/GH3hhMXoQqvsVbT9tVjWHnE41ajGC4s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=WazdHlIMHVG05as7LqojLoZIgHh0cBau0LLvwz7Nqs65tWgz8q23DqOU2KqovtGo3IMRz7Yn6mcT3VKtE7TrosmDQrzPP8hipmP3rFKw11josXxW/hIcWJsyQVWDg/QIM+xfTeKwanh/WlLGm0Feb+ILoTHRpm5NMT1IaZ6G4JA= Received: by 10.114.124.1 with SMTP id w1mr2852983wac.131.1200600836177; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:13:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.133.7 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:13:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Quite possibly. We have Embassy Trust Suite and Symantec Endpoint Security installed on all our work machines, while I use ClamWin at home and don't have this problem. The symptoms would indicate that it is an environmental difference and this is certainly a candidate. I've disabled as many of the Symantec features as I can without uninstalling it (which I don't have permissions to do), and I still get the same problem. So, if it is Symantec then it's at a level deeper than I can go. Not sure about the Embassy suite, I'll have a play and see what I can find but it's tricky as the sysadmins here don't like us developer-types playing with security settings on our machines. Go figure. I've also tried a complete (including registry keys) reinstall of cygwin (as per Nicholas' email) and still have the problem. I'll try a summary posting to the cygwin group as suggested to see if they know of anything over there. If there's anything else I can do in the meantime, please let me know. I'll be closing my eyes real tight and hoping that next time I open them I have a Linux desktop in front of me :-) Thanks for all your help guys, Paul On Jan 17, 2008 11:51 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Paul Umbers wrote: > > > > Incidentally, I've tried this on two other machines at work with the > > same results. The steps to reproduce are annoyingly simple: download > > cygwin installer & execute (accept all defaults), select the packages > > specified for the binary windows install on the git wiki, try to > > create a git repository and add files. Frustrating - especially since > > my desktop at my last job worked just fine. > > Is there perhaps some odd virus scanner or something that interferes with > filesystem operations? It sounds like you have consistent problems on > *some* machines, but others cannot reproduce them, which makes me wonder > if there is some setup issue. Maybe your company machines have some DLL or > something that interferes subtly with cygwin. > > (Eg there might be another cygwin install hidden off somewhere?) > > The "virus scanner" thing was just a random thought, but under windows > it's not unheard of to have things that intercept filesystem accesses for > things like that. Virus scanners, "security features", rootkits from Sony > or other sources of trouble etc - you name it. > > That kind of environmental difference would explain why you didn't see it > on another machine, and why others seem to not be able to reproduce it > either. > > Linus > -- Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --- Edsger W. Dijkstra Paul Umbers MSc MBCS MIAP paul.umbers@gmail.com