>> Looks like it's related to some issue reading stdin... I executed vim >> in debug mode ('vim -D passwd') and got the following: > > Fixed... I messed up the permissions in my /dev directory.
Perhaps I spoke to soon... I'm still having the issue, this time with a domain based user. I executed 'mkpasswd -l -c > /etc/passwd' which again acted as expected, and the /etc/passwd file was created. I went to edit the file with 'vim -D /etc/passwd' to change the users' default group and vim again displayed the message about an error opening input. Looking in /dev I have: drwxrwxrwt+ 1 ironhead Users 0 Dec 5 08:22 shm/ drwxrwxrwt+ 1 ironhead Users 0 Dec 5 08:22 mqueue/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 ironhead Users 15 Dec 5 08:22 stdin -> /proc/self/fd/0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 ironhead Users 15 Dec 5 08:22 stdout -> /proc/self/fd/1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 ironhead Users 15 Dec 5 08:22 stderr -> /proc/self/fd/2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 ironhead Users 13 Dec 5 08:22 fd -> /proc/self/fd/ (note that the domain user ID is 'csutclif' and 'ironhead' is the local user ID that was giving me problems before). Further checking on stdin reveals: $ ls -ltr /proc/self/fd/0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 csutclif Users 0 Nov 30 2006 /proc/self/fd/0 -> /dev/tty0 however, there is no /dev/tty0. Should there be? If so, how do I create it? I'm at a loss here, could anybody hazard an idea as to what could be happening, or how I could further debug the issue? Thanx! Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/