Hi Marco, On Mar 11 21:55, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 10/03/2014 11:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >built from CVS. No crash either. > > > > > >Corinna > > Hi Corinna, > > I think it is due to the unusual history of my cygwin installation, > that is triggering a corner case. > > The system is installed on a USB disk and it migrated from > one computer to another, so some of old ACLs are not recognized from > one new system. > > On AD aware snapshots: > $ uname -svr > CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.29s(0.272/5/3) 20140310 03:20:19 > > > $ ls -l nco-4.*.gz > ls: cannot access nco-4.3.9.tar.gz: Bad address > -rw-r--r-- 1 marco root 5846624 Jan 29 2013 nco-4.2.5.tar.gz > -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrators None 4479960 Jan 30 00:07 nco-4.4.1.tar.gz > [...] > I am using the same /etc/passwd and /etc/group > and there is no /etc/nsswitch.conf file. > > > Using a old version of > SetACL by Helge Klein > Homepage: http://setacl.sourceforge.net > Version: 2.0.3.0 > > I catched the ACL for two of the files: > > "\\?\E:\cygwin\pub\devel\nco\nco-4.3.9.tar.gz",1,"O:S-1-5-21-531030479-1339336681-3415091201-1009G:S-1-5-21-1870173206-1308263284-2375963468-513D:P(A;;0x1f019f;;;S-1-5-21-531030479-1339336681-3415091201-1009)(A;;FR;;;S-1-5-21-1870173206-1308263284-2375963468-513)(A;;FR;;;WD)" > > SetACL finished successfully. > "\\?\E:\cygwin\pub\devel\nco\nco-4.2.5.tar.gz",1,"O:S-1-5-21-531030479-1339336681-3415091201-1009G:BAD:P(A;;0x1f019f;;;S-1-5-21-531030479-1339336681-3415091201-1009)(A;;FR;;;BA)(A;;FR;;;WD)" > > and looking on > > new system /etc/group: > None:S-1-5-21-531030479-1339336681-3415091201-513:513: > > old system /etc/group: > None:S-1-5-21-1870173206-1308263284-2375963468-513:513: > > the "bad address" error is coming from the the file with the > old ACL for "None" group. > > I suspect the Xwin crash was due to some files under /tmp or /var that > had similar files, as making extensive use of > chgrp.exe -R Administrators * > > I have not anymore the segfault.
thanks for tracking this down. Still, it shouldn't result in a "Bad address" error, only in a GID value -1. Pity that you fixed it, otherwise your machine would be a wonderful guinea pig :} Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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