Re: cygwin 1.7.8 + 3/18/11 snapshot + git = crash

2011-03-22 Thread marco atzeri
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Christopher Faylor > wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 05:24:10PM -0700, Kevin Layer wrote: >>This is on Windows 7 64-bit. >> >>The crash at the end left an index.lock file. >> >>Please let me know what I can do to help track down the problem. > > As always, the cygc

Re: cygwin 1.7.8 + 3/18/11 snapshot + git = crash

2011-03-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 05:24:10PM -0700, Kevin Layer wrote: >This is on Windows 7 64-bit. > >The crash at the end left an index.lock file. > >Please let me know what I can do to help track down the problem. As always, the cygcheck output requested at http://cygwin.com/problems.html would be usefu

Re: Cygwin fails autoconf mmap test under Win 7 (was: Broken autoconf mmap test)

2011-03-22 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/22/2011 5:53 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/22/2011 4:59 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 03/20/2011 02:51 PM, Ken Brown wrote: What's the status of the broken autoconf mmap test, which always fails on Cygwin even though Cygwin has a working mmap? Autoconf 2.65 and newer do not have the bug. But pac

Re: cygwin 1.7.8 + 3/18/11 snapshot + git = crash

2011-03-22 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
On 22 March 2011 21:33, Eric Blake wrote: > On 03/22/2011 06:24 PM, Kevin Layer wrote: >> This is on Windows 7 64-bit. >> >> The crash at the end left an index.lock file. >> >> Please let me know what I can do to help track down the problem. > > It's already tracked down - it's a bug in Microsoft's

Re: cygwin 1.7.8 + 3/18/11 snapshot + git = crash

2011-03-22 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/22/2011 06:24 PM, Kevin Layer wrote: > This is on Windows 7 64-bit. > > The crash at the end left an index.lock file. > > Please let me know what I can do to help track down the problem. It's already tracked down - it's a bug in Microsoft's winmm.dll, and the latest snapshot cygwin1.dll wo

cygwin 1.7.8 + 3/18/11 snapshot + git = crash

2011-03-22 Thread Kevin Layer
This is on Windows 7 64-bit. The crash at the end left an index.lock file. Please let me know what I can do to help track down the problem. Kevin + git rebase --whitespace=nowarn private/layer-scm First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it... Applying: add regression files Using in

Re: Drop pdksh?

2011-03-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:42:45PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 05:13:02PM +0100, David Sastre wrote: >>Maybe it should be considered to drop pdksh from the distro, being >>mksh a mantained replacement and pdksh orphaned and upstream >>unmantained. > >This sounds like a

Drop pdksh?

2011-03-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 05:13:02PM +0100, David Sastre wrote: >Maybe it should be considered to drop pdksh from the distro, being >mksh a mantained replacement and pdksh orphaned and upstream >unmantained. This sounds like a good idea to me. Should I make this happen? cgf -- Problem reports:

Re: python select() is limited to fds < 64

2011-03-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 08:53:34PM +0100, V??clav Haisman wrote: >Jon TURNEY wrote, On 22.3.2011 20:29: >> >> python seems to be built with the default value of FD_SETSIZE, which is only >> 64 on cygwin. >Is this not because of the inherent limitation of WaitForMultipleObjects() >call? Yep. Wit

Re: Question on Cygwin win32 487 error fix

2011-03-22 Thread Eric Blake
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE - redirecting to the list On 03/22/2011 05:25 PM, S B wrote: > Hi Eric, >I saw your reply on: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00453.html > > I am having a similar problem to the one that the original poster in that > thread had. > > I have Cygwin 1.

Re: Spurious "Connection reset by peer" problems anybody?

2011-03-22 Thread MS
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:43:52 Corinna Vinschen wrote: over the weekend I came across a description of a Windows socket problem which might affect some of us. Fortunately I also came across the potential solution. My question is, does anybody have a scenario in which he or she encounters weird "

Re: Broken autoconf mmap test

2011-03-22 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/22/2011 4:59 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 03/20/2011 02:51 PM, Ken Brown wrote: What's the status of the broken autoconf mmap test, which always fails on Cygwin even though Cygwin has a working mmap? Autoconf 2.65 and newer do not have the bug. But packages still exist where configure was ge

Re: git issues with 1.7.8 + 3/13/11 snapshot of cygwin1.dll

2011-03-22 Thread Kevin Layer
>> When I look in the .git directory, the file index.lock is *not* there. Nevermind. I was looking in the wrong .git directory. There is a lock file there, presumably from before I started using the snapshot that fixed the git crashes. Sorry for the noise. -- Problem reports: http://cygw

git issues with 1.7.8 + 3/13/11 snapshot of cygwin1.dll

2011-03-22 Thread Kevin Layer
I see this on my XP32 system: + git fetch Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. >From git:/repo/git/cl 75d375e..4ed5ea6 acl82 -> origin/acl82 a5421cc..f0ac11c master -> origin/master + git fetch --tags Warning: No xauth data; using fake authent

Re: Broken autoconf mmap test

2011-03-22 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/20/2011 02:51 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > What's the status of the broken autoconf mmap test, which always fails > on Cygwin even though Cygwin has a working mmap? Autoconf 2.65 and newer do not have the bug. But packages still exist where configure was generated with < 2.65, so these packages s

Re: python select() is limited to fds < 64

2011-03-22 Thread Václav Haisman
Jon TURNEY wrote, On 22.3.2011 20:29: > > python seems to be built with the default value of FD_SETSIZE, which is only > 64 on cygwin. Is this not because of the inherent limitation of WaitForMultipleObjects() call? > [...] -- VH -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

need help porting an open source project to Windows/Cygwin

2011-03-22 Thread bob 295
I am the facilitator for the SIMPL open source project (http://www.icanprogram.com/simpl). The SIMPL toolkit project started over 10 years ago as a way to bring Send/Receive/Reply (QNX style) messaging to Linux. A SIMPL application consists of two or more interacting SIMPL modules. Those modu

python select() is limited to fds < 64

2011-03-22 Thread Jon TURNEY
python seems to be built with the default value of FD_SETSIZE, which is only 64 on cygwin. I noticed this as it causes numerous tests in the twisted test suite to fail with "ValueError: filedescriptor out of range in select()" exceptions, but can also be demonstrated with a simple test case: $ c

Re: PATH environment variables failed to evaluate correctly

2011-03-22 Thread David Sastre
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 08:28:49PM +0530, chandan_c9 wrote: > I have installed Cygwin yesterday.I want to extract a .run file but I am > getting > error as PATH environment variables failed to evaluate correctly. > I am not getting clue by searching on google. Hello, Files with a *.run extensio

Re: O_ACCMODE is wrong

2011-03-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 22 11:40, Eric Blake wrote: > First, some background: POSIX 2008 introduced O_SEARCH and O_EXEC, and > states that they may (but not must) share the same bit, since the former > is for directories and the latter for non-directories (cygwin shares > these as 0x40). POSIX states that impl

Re: Slight issue in base-files-4.0-6

2011-03-22 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
On 22 March 2011 11:33, Bravery, Gavin S wrote: > BTW, I have a side issue which is when mksh installs it doesn't make a ksh > link, which means scripts with #!/usr > /bin/ksh stop working. Indeed, I should really fix that. I'll look into how to create a postinstall script to create the link. C

O_ACCMODE is wrong

2011-03-22 Thread Eric Blake
First, some background: POSIX 2008 introduced O_SEARCH and O_EXEC, and states that they may (but not must) share the same bit, since the former is for directories and the latter for non-directories (cygwin shares these as 0x40). POSIX states that implementations need not reject O_EXEC|O_RDONLY

Re: Slight issue in base-files-4.0-6

2011-03-22 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
On 22 March 2011 12:13, David Sastre wrote: > WJFFM with the PS1 setting included in 4.0-6 for mksh. Indeed it does, I guess I should have tested it. The previous (pre-4.0) /etc/profile did not set PS1 correctly for mksh. Sorry for the noise. Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org

Re: Slight issue in base-files-4.0-6

2011-03-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 22 17:13, David Sastre wrote: > Maybe it should be considered to drop pdksh from the distro, being > mksh a mantained replacement and pdksh orphaned and upstream > unmantained. Given that the latest pdksh package is from 2003, this sounds like a really good idea to me. Corinna -- Corinn

RE: Slight issue in base-files-4.0-6

2011-03-22 Thread Bravery, Gavin S
>>> If you want to use a ksh derivative, you are probably better >>> switching to mksh, which is actively mantained. >>> IOW, /etc/profile no longer supports pdksh. If you want to keep >>> using it, you'll need to explicitely add support for it (as you've >>> done already). >>Agreed, however, th

Re: Slight issue in base-files-4.0-6

2011-03-22 Thread David Sastre
2011/3/22, Bravery, Gavin S wrote: Basically, the escapes aren't working right (in XWindows at the very least). So I have now changed it to say: case "${KSH_VERSION}" in *MIRBSD*KSH* ) PS1=$(print '^[]0;${PWD}\n^[[32m${USER}@${HOSTNAME} ^[[33m${PWD/${

RE: Slight issue in base-files-4.0-6

2011-03-22 Thread Bravery, Gavin S
>>> Basically, the escapes aren't working right (in XWindows at the very least). >>> >>> So I have now changed it to say: >>>   case "${KSH_VERSION}" in >>>   *MIRBSD*KSH* ) >>>     PS1=$(print '^[]0;${PWD}\n^[[32m${USER}@${HOSTNAME} >>> ^[[33m${PWD/${HOME}/~}^[[0m\n$ ') >>>     ;; >>>   *PD*KSH* )

Re: PATH environment variables failed to evaluate correctly

2011-03-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:01:48AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 08:28:49PM +0530, chandan...@indiatimes.com wrote: >>Hello, >>I have installed Cygwin yesterday.I want to extract a .run file but I >>am getting error as PATH environment variables failed to evaluate >>corr

Re: PATH environment variables failed to evaluate correctly

2011-03-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 08:28:49PM +0530, chandan...@indiatimes.com wrote: >Hello, >I have installed Cygwin yesterday.I want to extract a .run file but I >am getting error as PATH environment variables failed to evaluate >correctly.I am not getting clue by searching on google. We're not getting a

PATH environment variables failed to evaluate correctly

2011-03-22 Thread chandan_c9
Hello, I have installed Cygwin yesterday.I want to extract a .run file but I am getting error as PATH environment variables failed to evaluate correctly.I am not getting clue by searching on google. Please help. Thyanks and regards, Chandan -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.

Re: Slight issue in base-files-4.0-6

2011-03-22 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
On 22 March 2011 10:34, David Sastre wrote: > 2011/3/22, Bravery, Gavin S wrote: >> Basically, the escapes aren't working right (in XWindows at the very least). >> >> So I have now changed it to say: >>   case "${KSH_VERSION}" in >>   *MIRBSD*KSH* ) >>     PS1=$(print '^[]0;${PWD}\n^[[32m${USER}@${

Re: Slight issue in base-files-4.0-6

2011-03-22 Thread David Sastre
2011/3/22, Bravery, Gavin S wrote: > I have a minor issue with the /etc/profile file in base files. > > I still use KSH (generally pdksh) and there is a problem with how this file > is setting PS1. > Basically, the escapes aren't working right (in XWindows at the very least). > > So I have now chan

RE: Migrating to windows 7

2011-03-22 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Tod sent the following at Tuesday, March 22, 2011 9:01 AM >I've migrated to Win7 and basically just copied over my existing cygwin >install over to the new drive. Things are working but my user account >has changed so I'm getting an error saying my homedir is owned by >someone else. I can still do

Slight issue in base-files-4.0-6

2011-03-22 Thread Bravery, Gavin S
Hi everyone, I have a minor issue with the /etc/profile file in base files. I fixed it a while back but the changes over the last few days broke it again (which made me remember I had done it, which then made me tell you :-). I still use KSH (generally pdksh) and there is a problem with how thi

Re: Volume Shadow Copy in SSHD connection

2011-03-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 22 09:37, Bruno Galindro da Costa wrote: > Ok Corinna, thanks for return, but I don´t understand how can I call > these methods. > Is there a bash functions? The methods are built into the Cygwin DLL. seteuid is a system API called by sshd. You don't have to call any function yourself nor

Migrating to windows 7

2011-03-22 Thread Tod
I've migrated to Win7 and basically just copied over my existing cygwin install over to the new drive. Things are working but my user account has changed so I'm getting an error saying my homedir is owned by someone else. I can still do work but I'd like to get this corrected. Can someone poi

Re: emacs 23.3 error

2011-03-22 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/22/2011 7:27 AM, Nick Parker wrote: Has anyone else seen this? I continue to get this error, it seems rather sporadic. On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Nick Parker wrote: Hello, I just installed the latest version of emacs 23.3 through cygwin and after restarting and launching emacs f

Re: SSH Authentication fails under Windows Server 2008 - Domain Controller

2011-03-22 Thread Bruno Galindro da Costa
Is there any other way to see or enable a ssh authentication error log? * 2011/3/21 Bruno Galindro da Costa: > Hi! > >   I´ve installed a cygwin sshd service under a Windows 2008 Server > Enterprise Service Pack 2. It is a Domain Controller. There are 2 more > domain controllers (Windows

Re: Volume Shadow Copy in SSHD connection

2011-03-22 Thread Bruno Galindro da Costa
Ok Corinna, thanks for return, but I don´t understand how can I call these methods. Is there a bash functions? bruno.galindro@SUNTECHDHFG1 ~ $ seteuid bash: seteuid: command not found As I understand, these are C / C++ methods available when I include these two libraries on my code header: #incl

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: quilt-0.48-2 -- Tool to work with series of patches

2011-03-22 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/quilt License : GPL Tool to work with series of patches Program manages a series of patches by keeping track of the changes each of them makes. They are logically organized as a stack, and you can apply, un-apply, r

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: GraphicsMagick-1.3.12-2

2011-03-22 Thread marco atzeri
Version 1.3.12-2 of GraphicsMagick libGraphicsMagick-devel libGraphicsMagick3 perl-Graphics-Magick have been uploaded for cygwin DESCRIPTION GraphicsMagick is the swiss army knife of image processing. It provides a robust and efficient collection of tools and libraries which support r

Re: emacs 23.3 error

2011-03-22 Thread Nick Parker
Has anyone else seen this?  I continue to get this error, it seems rather sporadic. On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Nick Parker wrote: > > Hello, > I just installed the latest version of emacs 23.3 through cygwin and after > restarting and launching emacs from within mintty I am getting an err

Re: Volume Shadow Copy in SSHD connection

2011-03-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 21 17:56, Bruno Galindro da Costa wrote: > Corinna, > >I´m need to build a small C++ program to exec the "vssadmin list > writers" with another user context at the remote host? Huh? No, of course not. As the document describes, all of the methods are implemented in the Cygwin DLL as

Re: How to setup cygwin to use always textmode, Conclusion

2011-03-22 Thread Ralf
Conclusion (please correct me if I'm not right): - There is no way to select 'always textmode' in the current release of cygwin - I've to make sure that filesystems are mounted correctly (see /etc/fstab) and that I name filenames correctly to get the right mode - When I use windows filenames the