Re: Package Maintainer List

2010-01-21 Thread Gary .
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 21 13:43, Gary . wrote: > > Is the list at http://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint current? [...] > > links-1.00pre20-1-cygwin.patch file: > > +- version 1.00pre20-1 - > > +- New maintainer, 2007-08-12 Jari Aalto. > > +- New upstream release. > > Oh, right, I fix

Abnormal exit in setup.log

2010-01-21 Thread Stephen Grant Brown
Hi All, In using setup version 2.677 I get the following comments in the /var/log/setup.log 2010/01/18 16:30:13 running: E:\cygwin-1p7\bi

ls command crashed

2010-01-21 Thread Huang Bambo
[ba...@bambo-pc /cygdrive/c/Sandbox/Bambo/DefaultBox] $ ls 6 [main] -bash 1104 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0xC10A, errno 11 1628483 [main] -bash 1104 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before initialization, retry 0, exit code

RE: SOLVED 1.7.1 ssh-agent hangs with 100% cpu

2010-01-21 Thread E
Having trouble with ssh-agent since upgrading cygwin to 1.7.x. I start the ssh-agent, which is fine, but then if I try and to a "ssh-add" or "ssh", that process hangs and ssh-agent starts using 100% of a cpu. I've managed to track down what was causing this problem (as well as the rsync hang

RE: SOLVED 1.7.1 rsync handing with "Failed to dup/close" error message

2010-01-21 Thread E
Since updating from cygwin 1.5 to 1.7, I've found rsync does not work for me. Even when just trying to do a simple sync of two folders on the same file system I get the error: rsync: Failed to dup/close: Socket operation on non-socket (108) rsync error: error in IPC code (code 14) at /home/lap

Re: Why require ps -W and kill -f

2010-01-21 Thread Andy Koppe
2010/1/22 Don Beusee: > ps -e on Unix displays “every process running on the system”.  This command > doesn't do that under cygwin.  Why should it be necessary to supply -W to > see all processes running on the system? Because those processes are not Cygwin/Unix processes. In particular, they do n

Re: Problems starting sshd as a service on cygwin 1.7.1

2010-01-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/21/2010 11:15 PM, Myron Flickner wrote: On one of my upgraded 1.7.1 system sshd quit running as a service and would not restart. I tried a few things but never could make it work so I decided to reinstall. I uninstalled cygwin per the FAQ and a posting on removing sshd http://www.cygwin

Problems starting sshd as a service on cygwin 1.7.1

2010-01-21 Thread Myron Flickner
On one of my upgraded 1.7.1 system sshd quit running as a service and would not restart. I tried a few things but never could make it work so I decided to reinstall. I uninstalled cygwin per the FAQ and a posting on removing sshd http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstal

Re: Why require ps -W and kill -f

2010-01-21 Thread Warren Young
On 1/21/2010 7:09 PM, Don Beusee wrote: ps -e on Unix displays “every process running on the system”. Not on every *ix. On FreeBSD, if you give -a (the BSD equivalent of -e) as an unprivileged user, you can't see other people's processes, for security reasons. It would be nice if every *ix

Re: setup-legacy.exe version 2.677 does not create default mount points

2010-01-21 Thread Jeremy Bopp
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 06:00:00PM -0600, Jeremy Bopp wrote: >> When using setup-legacy.exe version 2.677 to install Cygwin 1.5, the >> installation process appears to complete successfully, but the mount >> points for /, /usr/bin, and /usr/lib are not created. This lea

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: dash-0.5.5.1-2; Obsolete: ash

2010-01-21 Thread Eric Blake
According to Edward Lam on 1/21/2010 7:12 AM: > DOS file paths and dash seems to NOT support them Huh? Give an example. dash supports DOS paths the same as bash. That is, if the : doesn't already cause other problems (as in tar), then the DOS path is handed on to native windows (and you get the

Re: help with error?

2010-01-21 Thread Tim Prince
Afflictedd2 wrote: It complains on this line of code: while ( context->holder != '' ) { /usr/bin/g++ -c-g -o "Debug/prodcon.o" "prodcon.c" prodcon.c:129:32: error: empty character constant prodcon.c: In function ‘void* producer(void*)’: prodcon.c:103: error: expected `;' before

RE: Why require ps -W and kill -f

2010-01-21 Thread Karl M
> From: don > To: cygwin > Subject: Why require ps -W and kill -f > Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:09:03 -0800 > > ps -e on Unix displays “every process running on the system”. This command > doesn't do that under cygwin. Why should it be necessary to supply -W to > see all processes running on the s

Why require ps -W and kill -f

2010-01-21 Thread Don Beusee
ps -e on Unix displays “every process running on the system”.  This command doesn't do that under cygwin.  Why should it be necessary to supply -W to see all processes running on the system?  This makes it incompatible with Linux/Unix, and such scripts that rely on -e doing this will not work the s

help with error?

2010-01-21 Thread Afflictedd2
Hi everyone, I am having the following errors when compiling with cygwin. It complains on this line of code: while ( context->holder != '' ) { /usr/bin/g++ -c-g -o "Debug/prodcon.o" "prodcon.c" prodcon.c:129:32: error: empty character constant prodcon.c: In function ‘void* producer(

Re: setup-legacy.exe version 2.677 does not create default mount points

2010-01-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 06:00:00PM -0600, Jeremy Bopp wrote: >When using setup-legacy.exe version 2.677 to install Cygwin 1.5, the >installation process appears to complete successfully, but the mount >points for /, /usr/bin, and /usr/lib are not created. This leads to >postinstall script failing

Re: flex package requires m4

2010-01-21 Thread Jeff Jones
Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 06:36:12PM -0700, Karl M wrote: > >My point was that flex needs a dependency on m4 for setup so that m4 is > >installed automatically. Unless, of course, there is some reason not > >to make the dependancy explicit. > > The depe

Re: Best way to backup 1.5 to go to 1.7

2010-01-21 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 1/21/2010 4:55 PM, Brian Keener wrote: > I want to upgrade to 1.7 but would like to get a backup of the full 1.5 > install before hand. I know in the past just doing copies some files > didn't or couldn't get copied. Also in the unix world seems as though > I recall tar and cpio have differ

Best way to backup 1.5 to go to 1.7

2010-01-21 Thread Brian Keener
I want to upgrade to 1.7 but would like to get a backup of the full 1.5 install before hand. I know in the past just doing copies some files didn't or couldn't get copied. Also in the unix world seems as though I recall tar and cpio have difference in terms of what they will and won't backup.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {rxvt-unicode-X/rxvt-unicode-common}-9.07-1

2010-01-21 Thread A.R. Burgers
Thanks very much for the explanation, works fine now. Teun Charles Wilson schreef: A.R. Burgers wrote: I installed rxvt-unicode-X and rxvt-unicode-common. The postinstall script has run, /etc/termcap has been updated. /usr/share/terminfo as well: $ find /usr/share/terminfo -mtime -1 /usr/sha

Re: Strange SSH disconnect problem

2010-01-21 Thread david sastre
2010/1/21, Rene Caspari : > Hello, > > I have a strange problem using openssh (client) with cygwin and > Windows7. After starting Windows I start a SSH connection from within > mintty and bash to Server A, afterwards Server B, C and so on. > If the SSH to B and C is idle for some time, the connecti

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: help2man-1.36.4-11

2010-01-21 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** help2man-1.36.4-11 help2man is a Perl script which creates a man page based on a program's --help and --version output. This release removes the version from the Perl shebang, so it should work with 5.10.1 and future rel

Strange SSH disconnect problem

2010-01-21 Thread Rene Caspari
Hello, I have a strange problem using openssh (client) with cygwin and Windows7. After starting Windows I start a SSH connection from within mintty and bash to Server A, afterwards Server B, C and so on. If the SSH to B and C is idle for some time, the connection is interrupted and after a few sec

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: screen-4.0.3-5

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of screen is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a Cygwin-only update. The package has been rebuilt for Cygwin 1.7, and it depends on the newer libncurses10 instead of libncurses9. It's a minor update that might help resolve a few problems people are having with screen.

Re: help2man broken

2010-01-21 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 21/01/2010 08:52, Charles Wilson wrote: Don't forget, you also typically need this: --- help2man.PL +++ help2man.PL @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ my $have_gettext; BEGIN { eval { require Locale::gettext; - Locale::gettext->import; + Locale::gettext->import (qw(gettext textdom

Re: units: update, FHS compliance

2010-01-21 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 21/01/2010 05:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Interesting. Especially the part about cmake. Did you try to convince Bill that WIN32 is not a good idea for the Cygwin distro package? Yes, among other things: http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=10122 Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://

Re: units: update, FHS compliance

2010-01-21 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Mer 20/1/10, Corinna Vinschen  ha scritto: > > >   ping > > > > I will look at this, but it seems a bit tricky... in reality there was just a typo in the "ancient" predecessor of cygport used to compile and package it. It build fine, just need now the change of directory for the documentati

Re: path not found - fstab problem?

2010-01-21 Thread Russ
Doh!Thanks Andy! I really over-thought that one. I did in fact have an "oh" instead of the zero.2 hrs :( -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] orpie no longer requires lapack

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Schulman
orpie's installation dependencies have been relaxed. Instead of requiring lapack, which in turn requires liblapack, liblapack0, and liblapack-devel, orpie now only requires liblapack0. Thanks to David Rothenberger for pointing out that this could be done. If you've previously installed orpie, yo

Re: Cygwin/OpenSSH V.5.3: Command output is not complete during direct executing...

2010-01-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/21/2010 11:37 AM, carsten.porz...@spb.de wrote: Dear Cygwin community, thanks for your answer to my "key authentication problem"! Nevertheless, I wonder, if it works under Windows 2003 with the SYSTEM account... You could have added the required permissions to SYSTEM. That's not recomme

Cygwin/OpenSSH V.5.3: Command output is not complete during direct executing...

2010-01-21 Thread Carsten . Porzler
Dear Cygwin community, thanks for your answer to my "key authentication problem"! Nevertheless, I wonder, if it works under Windows 2003 with the SYSTEM account... Now, I got a problem, which solved the developers about one and a half year ago on an early cygwin 1.7.0 version: If I run an comm

Re: Cygwin/OpenSSH V.5.3: Key authentication does not work under Windows 2008: Problem is solved now!!!

2010-01-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/21/2010 11:10 AM, carsten.porz...@spb.de wrote: Dear Cygwin Community, my problem described is solved now. The change to Windows Server 2003 is the fact, that the OpenSSHd Server service must run under a user account, SYSTEM account is not enough! The choosen user account must have the f

Re: Cygwin/OpenSSH V.5.3: Key authentication does not work under Windows 2008: Problem is solved now!!!

2010-01-21 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 1/21/2010 10:10 AM, carsten.porz...@spb.de wrote: > Dear Cygwin Community, > > my problem described is solved now. > > The change to Windows Server 2003 is the fact, that the OpenSSHd Server > service must run under a user account, SYSTEM account is not enough! > > The choosen user account

Re: Cygwin/OpenSSH V.5.3: Key authentication does not work under Windows 2008...

2010-01-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/21/2010 10:01 AM, carsten.porz...@spb.de wrote: Dear Cygwin experts, we installed Cygwin/OpenSSH V.5.3 CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 d00atq49 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07 11:48 i686 Cygwin OpenSSH_5.3p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8l 5 Nov 2009 on a Windows 2008 64-bit system. Unfortunetly the key authentication

Cygwin/OpenSSH V.5.3: Key authentication does not work under Windows 2008: Problem is solved now!!!

2010-01-21 Thread Carsten . Porzler
Dear Cygwin Community, my problem described is solved now. The change to Windows Server 2003 is the fact, that the OpenSSHd Server service must run under a user account, SYSTEM account is not enough! The choosen user account must have the following privileges: Create a token object Lo

Re: Japanese/Chinese language question

2010-01-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 21 16:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 21 10:04, Mark J. Reed wrote: [Intersting stuff] > > Thanks for the info. However... > > > linux$ cat jp.c > #include > #include > #include > > int > main (int argc, char **argv) > { > setlocale (LC_ALL, "ja_JP.UTF-8"); >

Re: Japanese/Chinese language question

2010-01-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 21 10:04, Mark J. Reed wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > would somebody with Japanese and/or Chinese language background be so > > When comparing strings linguistically (strcoll/wcscoll), > > - are Hiragana and Katakana forms of the same character to be >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: dash-0.5.5.1-2; Obsolete: ash

2010-01-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 09:12:25AM -0500, Edward Lam wrote: >Eric Blake wrote: >> The package dash has been upgraded to 0.5.5.1-2 for those using cygwin >> 1.7, simultaneously replacing dash-0.5.5.1-1 and ash-20040127-4. The ash >> package is now obsolete; ash.exe is provided by the dash package.

Re: units: update, FHS compliance

2010-01-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:11:15PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >Interesting. Especially the part about cmake. Did you try to convince >Bill that WIN32 is not a good idea for the Cygwin distro package? Given the previous acrimonious discussion on this matter wrt GNU make, I would say that is a

RE: ATTN: perl-Tk maintainer RE: perl-Tk is broken

2010-01-21 Thread Thrall, Bryan
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote on 2010-01-20: > On 20/01/2010 15:39, Reini Urban wrote: >> Do you need Win32 native Tk or just x Tk? >> My patch was just to support Win32 Tk. I have no time for this in the >> next month. > > Nor should you need to. I maintain the perl-Tk package, and we use the > X11 i

Re: Japanese/Chinese language question

2010-01-21 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > would somebody with Japanese and/or Chinese language background be so > kind to answer the below two questions? I have some (outdated) background in I18N and Japanese L10N, though I'm not a native speaker of either Japanese or any Chinese

Cygwin/OpenSSH V.5.3: Key authentication does not work under Windows 2008...

2010-01-21 Thread Carsten . Porzler
Dear Cygwin experts, we installed Cygwin/OpenSSH V.5.3 CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 d00atq49 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07 11:48 i686 Cygwin OpenSSH_5.3p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8l 5 Nov 2009 on a Windows 2008 64-bit system. Unfortunetly the key authentication does not work. The connection initiation interrupts on

Re: help2man broken

2010-01-21 Thread Charles Wilson
Eric Blake wrote: > Can we get a package refresh of help2man? Since /bin/help2man is > hardcoded to try the #!/usr/bin/perl5.10.0 interpreter, but perl is now at > 5.10.1, it requires manually tweaking the installed script to get anything > to happen. In general, depending on that specific of an

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: dash-0.5.5.1-2; Obsolete: ash

2010-01-21 Thread Edward Lam
Eric Blake wrote: The package dash has been upgraded to 0.5.5.1-2 for those using cygwin 1.7, simultaneously replacing dash-0.5.5.1-1 and ash-20040127-4. The ash package is now obsolete; ash.exe is provided by the dash package. I know I'm slow but I just updated to this cygwin change and runni

Japanese/Chinese language question

2010-01-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi, would somebody with Japanese and/or Chinese language background be so kind to answer the below two questions? When comparing strings linguistically (strcoll/wcscoll), - are Hiragana and Katakana forms of the same character to be treated as equal or as different? - are half-width and full-

Re: Package Maintainer List

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Schulman
> The file is maintained by mere human beings... There was discussion a while back about adding a maintainer field to setup.hint. It seems like a good idea. Is there any intention to implement that any time soon? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

help2man broken

2010-01-21 Thread Eric Blake
Can we get a package refresh of help2man? Since /bin/help2man is hardcoded to try the #!/usr/bin/perl5.10.0 interpreter, but perl is now at 5.10.1, it requires manually tweaking the installed script to get anything to happen. In general, depending on that specific of an interpreter is a bad idea;

Re: Package Maintainer List

2010-01-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 21 13:43, Gary . wrote: > Is the list at http://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint current? Because I > downloaded the source to the allegedly orphaned "links" ["ORPHANED > (Harold L Hunt II)"] and found the following comment in the > links-1.00pre20-1-cygwin.patch file: > +- version 1.00pre20-

Package Maintainer List

2010-01-21 Thread Gary .
Is the list at http://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint current? Because I downloaded the source to the allegedly orphaned "links" ["ORPHANED (Harold L Hunt II)"] and found the following comment in the links-1.00pre20-1-cygwin.patch file: +- version 1.00pre20-1 - +- New maintainer, 2007-08-12 Jar

Re: Gtk+ & cygwin problem

2010-01-21 Thread Richard Dickinson
Yaakov (Cygwin/X users.sourceforge.net> writes: > > On 20/01/2010 16:36, Richard Dickinson wrote: > > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > > Some googling would have shown you what this means. You need to be > running an X server and set the DISPLAY variable in order to use GTK+ > (or any

1.7.1-1 - forward slash UNC names to use 'noacl'

2010-01-21 Thread na na
Listing the contents of a directory on our file server (a Samba share) by t= he following command: =A0=A0 $ ls -l or explicitly =A0=A0 $ ls -l ./ the output is =A0=A0 --+ 1 600 2009-09-09 11:12 README.txt =A0=A0 d-+ 1 =A0=A0 0 2009-09-09 11:03 conf wh

Re: units: update, FHS compliance

2010-01-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 20 14:30, Yaakov S wrote: > On 20/01/2010 10:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >It would be nice if people who are interested in becoming package > >maintainer would pick up the occasional package. Here's the current > >list of orphaned packages: > > >docbook-xml > >docbook-xsl > >

Re: units: update, FHS compliance

2010-01-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 20 20:25, John Morrison wrote: > On Wed, January 20, 2010 4:52 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jan 20 16:00, Marco Atzeri wrote: > >> I think we should start a package adoption campaign, to > >> avoid additional workload to Yaakov. > > > > *P*ackage *A*doption *C*ampain? So a guy, who ad

Re: 1.7.1: /usr/bin/more.exe

2010-01-21 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > Peter Koch a ?rit : > > > Running 1.7.1 on Windows 2008 R2 i experience problems with more.exe > > (which is a copy of less.exe). > > > > historically, less isn't more, but more than more, but not more ! You could try most: http://www.jedso