Re: Git Cygwin - unable to create any repository - help!

From: Paul Umbers <paul.umbers@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 17, 2008, 20:13 UTC
Message-ID: <a5eb9c330801171213l2c06c4e4s718324f5b66f0db6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801171046040.14959@woody.linux-foundation.org>

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 <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

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> 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
>

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Paul Umbers MSc MBCS MIAP
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