Re: trouble posting to cygwin-apps

2010-10-06 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 18:13 -0400, Bill Hoffman wrote: > Really this belongs on the CMake dev list. In so much as this affects a Cygwin packages, it is perfectly on topic here. > The new release I just posted is not really a new release of CMake, but > it is a new release for cygwin. The curren

Re: mintty postinstall failure - attn: cygutils maintainer

2010-10-06 Thread Andy Koppe
On 7 October 2010 04:12, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 10/6/2010 2:44 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> I can't see anything obviously wrong with mkshortcut. > > Nor can I. > >> It converts the >> link name with cygwin_conv_to_win32_path(), adds '.lnk', and prepends >> the start menu path. >> >> cygwin_conv_to

Re: mintty postinstall failure - attn: cygutils maintainer

2010-10-06 Thread Charles Wilson
On 10/6/2010 2:44 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: > I can't see anything obviously wrong with mkshortcut. Nor can I. > It converts the > link name with cygwin_conv_to_win32_path(), adds '.lnk', and prepends > the start menu path. > > cygwin_conv_to_win32_path() is ... Although, all of these instances of

Re: permission denied when using snmpwalk

2010-10-06 Thread Rance Hall
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Rogelio wrote: > I'm trying to snmpwalk a server using Cygwin, and when I type > "snmpwalk -c" like I am used to doing on a *nix box, I get a message > saying that permission is denied. > > What might I need to check here? > Larry is right this is likely off topic

Re: permission denied when using snmpwalk

2010-10-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/6/2010 8:32 PM, Rogelio wrote: I'm trying to snmpwalk a server using Cygwin, and when I type "snmpwalk -c" like I am used to doing on a *nix box, I get a message saying that permission is denied. What might I need to check here? Hard to say but since this isn't part of a Cygwin package,

permission denied when using snmpwalk

2010-10-06 Thread Rogelio
I'm trying to snmpwalk a server using Cygwin, and when I type "snmpwalk -c" like I am used to doing on a *nix box, I get a message saying that permission is denied. What might I need to check here? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/

Re: Slowdown after update on Win32 (XP Home)

2010-10-06 Thread Michael Ludwig
Michael Ludwig schrieb am 07.10.2010 um 00:27 (+0200): > SZABÓ Gergely schrieb am 06.10.2010 um 23:30 (+0200): > > > > please see this thread (test scripts included): > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-09/msg00871.html > > Thanks, Gabor - ... Thanks *Gergely*! Michael -- Problem reports:

Re: Slowdown after update on Win32 (XP Home)

2010-10-06 Thread Michael Ludwig
SZABÓ Gergely schrieb am 06.10.2010 um 23:30 (+0200): > > please see this thread (test scripts included): > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-09/msg00871.html Thanks, Gabor - I saw your thread, which reinforces my belief that it is a Cygwin issue. > I can only confirm this. Process creation is mu

Re: In what way is /cygdrive special WRT to permissions?

2010-10-06 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 10/6/2010 4:38 PM, Andy Hall wrote: > There is no doubt that this behavior changed from 1.5 to 1.7. The instant I > upgraded from 1.5 to 1.7.7, build scripts that test for the abilty to write > to the directories in F: instantly started reporting the directories were > not writeable using test

RE: In what way is /cygdrive special WRT to permissions?

2010-10-06 Thread Andy Hall
There is no doubt that this behavior changed from 1.5 to 1.7. The instant I upgraded from 1.5 to 1.7.7, build scripts that test for the abilty to write to the directories in F: instantly started reporting the directories were not writeable using test -w, yet you can still create and write files v

Re: In what way is /cygdrive special WRT to permissions?

2010-10-06 Thread Raman Gupta
On 10/06/2010 04:42 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 6 13:19, Andy Hall wrote: >> Notice that the test -w /cygdrive/f/builds reports that /cygdrive/f/builds >> is not writeable, yet you can create and write files in /cygdrive/f/builds! >> THIS IS INCONSTENT BEHAVIOR. Cygwin 1.5 did not have t

Re: Slowdown after update on Win32 (XP Home)

2010-10-06 Thread SZABÓ Gergely
Hello, please see this thread (test scripts included): http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-09/msg00871.html I can only confirm this. Process creation is much slower with 1.7.7 than it was with 1.5.25. The "fork" script runs 300% slower on my XP box. But on the other hand, Marco Atzeri could not con

Re: cygwin + xwin in win7 as unprivileged user?

2010-10-06 Thread davidstvz
It's a multiuser windows 7 lab environment where the only thing I can count on is that the individual users will do whatever they want to. I'm having to forcibly kill the x-windows process rather than just use a plain signal termination. It's ignoring a vanilla taskkill. I haven't tried kill fr

Re: cygwin + xwin in win7 as unprivileged user?

2010-10-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 06/10/2010 18:31, davidstvz wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: On 06/10/2010 16:10, davidstvz wrote: I have done additional testing on this problem and it seems that the first user to login and run 'startxwin' owns all of the log and lock files and this is what is causing the problem. The first user

Re: In what way is /cygdrive special WRT to permissions?

2010-10-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 6 13:19, Andy Hall wrote: > Notice that the test -w /cygdrive/f/builds reports that /cygdrive/f/builds > is not writeable, yet you can create and write files in /cygdrive/f/builds! > THIS IS INCONSTENT BEHAVIOR. Cygwin 1.5 did not have this behavior. I somehow doubt that. I'm just not su

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: xclip-0.12-1

2010-10-06 Thread rolandc
Version 0.12-1 of "xclip" has been uploaded. xclip is a command line utility that is designed to run on any system with an X11 implementation. It provides an interface to X selections ("the clipboard") from the command line. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to u

Re: Cygwin >= 1.7.6 open message queues - permission denied

2010-10-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 6 13:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 6 10:13, Manuel Wienand wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I noticed that I get a permission denied error when I try to open a message > > queue in the same process or > > in an other process. > > The problem can be reproduced using the code given at: > > h

RE: In what way is /cygdrive special WRT to permissions?

2010-10-06 Thread Andy Hall
Corinna - Thanks for the reply and clarification. I have made the obvious change in my mounts to get around this problem. However, there has been a change in behavior between 1.5 and 1.7. I have 1.7.7 installed on Windows Server 2003 SP2. The mount table shows $ mount //vega/repository on /

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: CMake 2.8.2-1

2010-10-06 Thread Bill Hoffman
CMake 2.8.2-1 is now available on Cygwin mirrors. Here are the changes for CMake 2.8.2: No changes in CMake 2.8.2 since 2.8.2-rc4. Changes in CMake 2.8.2-rc4 (since 2.8.2-rc3) Bill Hoffman (1): Fix for bug #10859, ctest exit exception incorrec

cygwin sshd priviledge problem on 2008

2010-10-06 Thread shubhada pugaonkar
Hi   I hope this is the right maling list for this issue. I have cygwin sshd service installed on windows 2008 server SP2. I setup the cygwin ssh server by answering yes to all questions asked by sshd-host-config and letting it create the cyg_server user etc.   If I do simple commands then ss

Re: ImageMagick: More insufficient package dependencies

2010-10-06 Thread Raul Miller
I did a fresh install of cygwin today. I ran into the problem described at http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-08/msg00502.html (that was almost two months ago) http://cygwin.com/faq/ does not mention this issue. http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#cygX11-6.dll-missing currently say

Re: Slowdown after update on Win32 (XP Home)

2010-10-06 Thread Michael Ludwig
Larry Hall (Cygwin) schrieb am 03.10.2010 um 20:50 (-0400): > On 10/1/2010 8:08 PM, Michael Ludwig wrote: > >Larry Hall (Cygwin) schrieb am 30.09.2010 um 20:38 (-0400): > >>My WAG is you're suffering from changes in the new version of > >>bash_completion. If you don't use this, uninstall it. > >

Re: emacs-23.2-3 and DBus

2010-10-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/6/2010 2:12 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/6/2010 1:51 PM, Michael Albinus wrote: Ken Brown writes: The binary has the following checksum: $ cksum /usr/bin/emacs 658187514 16254990 /usr/bin/emacs That's not actually the binary; it's a symlink that resolves to either /usr/bin/emacs-X11.exe

Re: mintty postinstall failure - attn: cygutils maintainer

2010-10-06 Thread Andy Koppe
On 6 October 2010 15:39, Eric Blake wrote: > On 10/06/2010 06:28 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> >> On 6 October 2010 12:54, Eric Blake wrote: >>> >>> Any reason why with my setup, mintty.sh exits with status 3 when run by >>> setup.exe, but with status 0 when I run it by hand? >>> /var/log/setup.log.full

Re: Unable to remap error

2010-10-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/6/2010 3:17 AM, Harie Ram wrote: Finally got rebaseall working with the normal user itself. Please find the result of successful rebaseall below . It was the case of permissions on C:\Cygwin folder for newly installed packages. # rebaseall # Even after a successful rebaseall , I am still

Re: emacs-23.2-3 and DBus

2010-10-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/6/2010 1:51 PM, Michael Albinus wrote: Ken Brown writes: The binary has the following checksum: $ cksum /usr/bin/emacs 658187514 16254990 /usr/bin/emacs That's not actually the binary; it's a symlink that resolves to either /usr/bin/emacs-X11.exe or /usr/bin/emacs-nox.exe, depending on

Re: emacs-23.2-3 and DBus

2010-10-06 Thread Michael Albinus
Ken Brown writes: >> The binary has the following checksum: >> >> $ cksum /usr/bin/emacs >> 658187514 16254990 /usr/bin/emacs > > That's not actually the binary; it's a symlink that resolves to either > /usr/bin/emacs-X11.exe or /usr/bin/emacs-nox.exe, depending on whether > or not you've install

Re: emacs-23.2-3 and DBus

2010-10-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/6/2010 10:41 AM, Michael Albinus wrote: Ken Brown writes: Maybe you could also try to send a notification: (notifications-notify :title "Hello world" :body "from Emacs") This results in the error "The name org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any .service files", as you p

Re: cygwin + xwin in win7 as unprivileged user?

2010-10-06 Thread davidstvz
Jon TURNEY wrote: > > On 06/10/2010 16:10, davidstvz wrote: >> I have done additional testing on this problem and it seems that the >> first >> user to login and run 'startxwin' owns all of the log and lock files and >> this is what is causing the problem. The first user can continue using >> x

Re: cygwin + xwin in win7 as unprivileged user?

2010-10-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 06/10/2010 16:10, davidstvz wrote: I have done additional testing on this problem and it seems that the first user to login and run 'startxwin' owns all of the log and lock files and this is what is causing the problem. The first user can continue using xwin without issues, but no other users

Re: Starting to bash

2010-10-06 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 10/6/2010 7:37 AM, Bryan Zimmer wrote: > Apologies to those who have heard this before: > > I can't seem to get working version of bash, after installation. I have > tried about 7 times. The "new" cygwin bash shell starts up a window, but > will not perform tasks. Each time I issue a command fr

Re: Starting to bash

2010-10-06 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Bryan Zimmer! > I can't seem to get working version of bash, after installation. Elaborate? > I have tried about 7 times. Tried exactly what? > The "new" cygwin bash shell starts up a window, but will not perform tasks. Erghm? > Each time I issue a command from the bash prompt. W

Re: Looking for experienced CygWin Users

2010-10-06 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, CygwinForums! > We just started a Cygwin based forum You mean web-forum? As in, http:... Bleh. Forum is probably the worst possible collaboration platform ever created. You spend hours effortlessly clicking links in a window for nothing, instead of just having a chat with people. --

Re: libpq: problem with shared library

2010-10-06 Thread Tomas Staig
Tomáš Hajas wrote: Hello, I'm trying to use PostgreSQL C API under Cygwin, but libpq attempts load a very strange shared library. On run-time it states: "error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" and yes, name of the missing shared librar

Re: cygwin + xwin in win7 as unprivileged user?

2010-10-06 Thread davidstvz
I have done additional testing on this problem and it seems that the first user to login and run 'startxwin' owns all of the log and lock files and this is what is causing the problem. The first user can continue using xwin without issues, but no other users can do it after that. If someone woul

Re: libpq: problem with shared library

2010-10-06 Thread Huang Bambo
Can you give the outpuoutput of 'ldd pqtest' ? 2010/10/6 Tomáš Hajas > > Hello, > > I'm trying to use PostgreSQL C API under Cygwin, but libpq attempts load a > very > strange shared library. On run-time it states: > "error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No >

Re: emacs-23.2-3 and DBus

2010-10-06 Thread Michael Albinus
Ken Brown writes: >> Maybe you could also try to send a notification: >> >> (notifications-notify :title "Hello world" :body "from Emacs") > > This results in the error "The name org.freedesktop.Notifications was > not provided by any .service files", as you predicted. So I don't > think it poin

Re: mintty postinstall failure - attn: cygutils maintainer

2010-10-06 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/06/2010 06:28 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 6 October 2010 12:54, Eric Blake wrote: Any reason why with my setup, mintty.sh exits with status 3 when run by setup.exe, but with status 0 when I run it by hand? /var/log/setup.log.full doesn't give any hints; what else can I try to debug the issue?

libpq: problem with shared library

2010-10-06 Thread Tomáš Hajas
Hello, I'm trying to use PostgreSQL C API under Cygwin, but libpq attempts load a very strange shared library. On run-time it states: "error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" and yes, name of the missing shared library is literally a ques

Re: bash bug?: nested "bash --login -i" doesn't run /etc/profile (still runs ~/.bash_profile)

2010-10-06 Thread Daniel Barclay
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 10/5/2010 10:12 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 10/4/2010 12:19 PM, Daniel Barclay wrote: ... Can anyone confirm (or "anti-confirm") this behavior?: ... When bash is started using the Cygwin shortcut (which runs cygwin.bat, which execute

Re: cygwin + xwin in win7 as unprivileged user?

2010-10-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 05/10/2010 18:22, davidstvz wrote: Is it possible to make Cygwin work with xwin as an unprivileged user. I'm even open to stupid hacks like making the entire Cygwin directory owned by the "Everyone" group. I tried that but then it couldn't create a socket needed after I ran 'startxwin'. Any

Re: Looking for experienced CygWin Users

2010-10-06 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I designed our forum to help users that are *NEW* to Cygwin, more for > discussion of the programs uses and empowering users, rather that direct > support of issues. OK. I can see that there would be a place for that. And no doubt many users are put off by the sometimes harsh tone of conversat

Re: emacs-23.2-3 and DBus

2010-10-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/6/2010 12:18 AM, Michael Albinus wrote: Ken Brown writes: It doesn't seem to be a problem under Cygwin either. I just tried loading notifications.el, and Emacs didn't freeze. So I guess we'll have to wait for a more detailed problem report from the OP saying exactly what he did. Mayb

Re: Looking for experienced CygWin Users

2010-10-06 Thread Charles Wilson
On 10/6/2010 8:49 AM, NightStrike wrote: >> We support Cygwin users here, on this list. What exactly does your forum >> provide that this list doesn't? > > Just a guess: courtesy and patience? :) :) NS, you are doing it again. Only this time, with the cygwin community rather than the mingw.org

Re: Looking for experienced CygWin Users

2010-10-06 Thread NightStrike
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> We just started a Cygwin based forum in an attempt to build the Cygwin users >> community support for newer users. We need some forum mods to assist in the >> everyday tasks, as well as provide support for our users. > > We support Cygwin u

Starting to bash

2010-10-06 Thread Bryan Zimmer
Apologies to those who have heard this before: I can't seem to get working version of bash, after installation. I have tried about 7 times. The "new" cygwin bash shell starts up a window, but will not perform tasks. Each time I issue a command from the bash prompt. I get the return prompt and a $?

Re: mintty postinstall failure

2010-10-06 Thread Andy Koppe
On 6 October 2010 12:54, Eric Blake wrote: > Any reason why with my setup, mintty.sh exits with status 3 when run by > setup.exe, but with status 0 when I run it by hand? /var/log/setup.log.full > doesn't give any hints; what else can I try to debug the issue? Assuming you were installing for All

mintty postinstall failure

2010-10-06 Thread Eric Blake
Any reason why with my setup, mintty.sh exits with status 3 when run by setup.exe, but with status 0 when I run it by hand? /var/log/setup.log.full doesn't give any hints; what else can I try to debug the issue? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization librar

Re: Looking for experienced CygWin Users

2010-10-06 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 06.10.2010 13:05, schrieb CygwinForums: > > I designed our forum to help users that are *NEW* to Cygwin, more for > discussion of the programs uses and empowering users, rather that direct > support of issues. > > I am very open to ideas, as this project was designed to aid the community, > no

Re: Cygwin >= 1.7.6 open message queues - permission denied

2010-10-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 6 10:13, Manuel Wienand wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that I get a permission denied error when I try to open a message > queue in the same process or > in an other process. > The problem can be reproduced using the code given at: > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-09/msg00629.html Con

Re: Looking for experienced CygWin Users

2010-10-06 Thread CygwinForums
I designed our forum to help users that are *NEW* to Cygwin, more for discussion of the programs uses and empowering users, rather that direct support of issues. I am very open to ideas, as this project was designed to aid the community, not distract it. Matthias Andree wrote: > > Am 06.10.201

Re: Looking for experienced CygWin Users

2010-10-06 Thread Andrew Schulman
> We just started a Cygwin based forum in an attempt to build the Cygwin users > community support for newer users. We need some forum mods to assist in the > everyday tasks, as well as provide support for our users. We support Cygwin users here, on this list. What exactly does your forum provide

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: tidy-20090325-1

2010-10-06 Thread Jonathon Merz
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Lapo Luchini wrote: > Version tidy-20090325-1 of HTML Tidy has been uploaded. It appears that the current/prev versions of tidy may be reversed in the setup.ini. On mirrors.xmission.com (and another one I checked at random), setup.ini reads: -

Re: In what way is /cygdrive special WRT to permissions?

2010-10-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 5 15:40, Andy Hall wrote: > If instead, I map F: to /cygdrive/c with the following entry in /etc/fstab > > F: /cygdrive/f smbfs binary,noacl 0 0 > > mount shows > > $ mount > C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto) > C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto) > C:/cygwin

Re: Looking for experienced CygWin Users

2010-10-06 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 06.10.2010 10:12, schrieb CygwinForums: > > We just started a Cygwin based forum in an attempt to build the Cygwin users > community support for newer users. We need some forum mods to assist in the > everyday tasks, as well as provide support for our users. Bad idea IMO. As though such fragme

Re: Looking for experienced CygWin Users

2010-10-06 Thread CygwinForums
Sorry about the extra capitalization, bad habbit :) About the email address, sorry, I don't know of a bit.ly for email addresses ;) mhoenicka wrote: > > CygwinForums was heard to say: > >> >> We just started a Cygwin based forum in an attempt to build the Cygwin >> users >> community support

Re: Looking for experienced CygWin Users

2010-10-06 Thread Markus Hoenicka
CygwinForums was heard to say: We just started a Cygwin based forum in an attempt to build the Cygwin users community support for newer users. We need some forum mods to assist in the everyday tasks, as well as provide support for our users. First forum post: Q: How do I spell CygWin? A: It

Re: tinyfugue with python won't compile under cygwin (1.7.7) on Windows XP

2010-10-06 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Gwen Morse wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 3:56 AM, Csaba Raduly wrote: http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR >> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Gwen Morse  wrote: >>> About a year ago I was able to get assistance compiling my MUD

Re: gdb 7 port for Cygwin?

2010-10-06 Thread Reini Urban
2010/10/6 Jim Reisert: > Has gdb 7.x been ported to Cygwin yet?  I can't use it to debug gcc > 4.5 programs (I usually get "line not found" when trying to set a > breakpoint): > >  http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/changes.html > > "GCC now generates unwind info also for epilogues. DWARF debuginfo > gener

Cygwin >= 1.7.6 open message queues - permission denied

2010-10-06 Thread Manuel Wienand
Hi, I noticed that I get a permission denied error when I try to open a message queue in the same process or in an other process. The problem can be reproduced using the code given at: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-09/msg00629.html I tried several versions: 1.7.7 (from the installer): per

Looking for experienced CygWin Users

2010-10-06 Thread CygwinForums
We just started a Cygwin based forum in an attempt to build the Cygwin users community support for newer users. We need some forum mods to assist in the everyday tasks, as well as provide support for our users. I don't want to post the url to the forums, as I'm not looking to advertise the forum

Re: Unable to remap error

2010-10-06 Thread Harie Ram
Finally got rebaseall working with the normal user itself. Please find the result of successful rebaseall below . It was the case of permissions on C:\Cygwin folder for newly installed packages. # rebaseall # Even after a successful rebaseall , I am still getting the unable to remap error intermi