Bug report for run.exe with patch

Several people have reported problems with run.exe complaining about being unable to execute programs. The typical symptoms of the problem are that the user clicks on a link in the Start menu that uses run.exe and gets back an error pop-up from run.exe that looks like this: Error could not start

Re: Cygwin 1.7.7 Entry point problems

On 12/31/2010 11:47 AM, Karl Stone Seigler wrote: > I keep getting an error message when I try to run bash.exe. The error > message is saying "The procedure entry point cygwin_create_path could > not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll." Why? Probably due to having the wrong dll ver

Cygwin 1.7.7 Entry point problems

I keep getting an error message when I try to run bash.exe. The error message is saying "The procedure entry point cygwin_create_path could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll." Why? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.c

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

On 12/31/2010 11:44 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 31 December 2010 13:33, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 12/31/2010 01:11 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: IMHO it's 100% better than just outputting 0's. Putting out 0's gives you no info at all! Bollocks. You'd be the first to complain that those stupid Cygwin de

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

On 31 December 2010 13:33, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >  On 12/31/2010 01:11 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: >>> >>> IMHO it's 100% better than just outputting 0's. Putting out 0's gives you >>> no >>> info at all! >> >> Bollocks. You'd be the first to complain that those stupid Cygwin devs >> don't even understa

Re: python: fix for locale.bind_textdomain_codeset

Yaakov, On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 08:45:33PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > Since _locale is already linked against libintl, an easy fix is to > just add ac_cv_func_bind_textdomain_codeset=yes to CYGCONF_ARGS. > When you updated Python to 2.6.6, could you include this as well? Yes. Thanks for t

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [experimental] Updated: readline-6.1.2-1, libreadline7-6.1.2-1

On 12/31/2010 1:23 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 31 December 2010 03:20, Charles Wilson wrote: >> Any chance you could build libreadline to use the wide version of the >> ncurses library? > > I don't mean to discourage that, but have you got a particular reason > for it? I think readline does its own

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

On 12/31/2010 01:11 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: IMHO it's 100% better than just outputting 0's. Putting out 0's gives you no info at all! Bollocks. You'd be the first to complain that those stupid Cygwin devs don't even understand what an average is. Hold on there Tonto! I said nothing of the sort. I

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

Le 31/12/2010 13:16, Cyrille Lefevre a écrit : > is that may help ? the gg keys where : windows avenrun :-) > > http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/X11apps/X11apps-13/xload/xload-X11R7.0-1.0.1/get_load.c well, humm, xload doesn't even launch under vista w/o any error ! strace and ldd attache

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

Le 30/12/2010 16:44, Eric Blake a écrit : > On 12/30/2010 05:32 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> Whenever I run uptime I see the load avgs all as 0.00: >> >> $ uptime >> 07:29:15 up 1 day, 20:22, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 >> >> Note that I'm running Cygwin 1.7.7 on Windows 7. Note th

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

* Andy Koppe (Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:11:22 +) > On 31 December 2010 02:49, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > IMHO it's 100% better than just outputting 0's. Putting out 0's > > gives you no info at all! > > Bollocks. You'd be the first to complain that those stupid Cygwin devs > don't even understand wha

Re: Owner/Group showing up as "??????????" on some Windows files despite mkpasswd/mkgroup

Hi there, On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 Larry Hall wrote: > See this link for more details: > > Thank you very much for that link. (It would have saved me much time if I'd seen it a couple of weeks ago... :) -- 73, Ged. -- Problem reports

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > IMHO it's 100% better than just outputting 0's. Putting out 0's gives you no > info at all! I disagree. No information is 100% better than bogus/wrong information. Implementing proper load information is only a Small Matter of Programmin