Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

2012-06-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 06:21:13PM -0700, richw wrote: > > >Warren Young wrote: >> >> On 6/13/2012 5:32 PM, richw wrote: >>> >>> What was I doing? I rebooted the computer. >> >> You're being pedantic. I mean, what program(s) did you run before you >> noticed Cygwin stopped working, causing you

Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

2012-06-13 Thread richw
Warren Young wrote: > > On 6/13/2012 5:32 PM, richw wrote: >> >> What was I doing? I rebooted the computer. > > You're being pedantic. I mean, what program(s) did you run before you > noticed Cygwin stopped working, causing you to reboot to fix it? > > I rebooted my computer because it was

Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

2012-06-13 Thread Warren Young
On 6/13/2012 5:32 PM, richw wrote: What was I doing? I rebooted the computer. You're being pedantic. I mean, what program(s) did you run before you noticed Cygwin stopped working, causing you to reboot to fix it? I believe you are running something that fights with Cygwin somehow, and thi

Re: Performance problems with emacs-X11 in current cygwin

2012-06-13 Thread K Stahl
Thank you Ken for first providing a useable patch and then finding the problem! -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

2012-06-13 Thread richw
Warren Young wrote: > > On 6/13/2012 11:19 AM, richw wrote: >> >> I occasionally find that cygwin is broken, and I find that /usr/bin and >> /usr/lib no longer are useful. > > It would help if you could pin down what you were doing before Cygwin > breaks each time. > > Can you please search y

Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

2012-06-13 Thread Warren Young
On 6/13/2012 11:19 AM, richw wrote: I occasionally find that cygwin is broken, and I find that /usr/bin and /usr/lib no longer are useful. It would help if you could pin down what you were doing before Cygwin breaks each time. Can you please search your entire hard drive for a second copy o

Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

2012-06-13 Thread richw
marco atzeri-4 wrote: > > On 6/13/2012 9:47 PM, richw wrote: >> >> >> Christopher Faylor-8 wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:19:42AM -0700, richw wrote: I occasionally find that cygwin is broken, and I find that /usr/bin and /usr/lib no longer are useful. The mount command (fo

Re: Performance problems with emacs-X11 in current cygwin

2012-06-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 05:07:17PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: >On 6/13/2012 2:40 PM, Ken Brown wrote: >> On 6/10/2012 8:45 PM, Ken Brown wrote: >>> The bisection shows that the first problematic commit is this one: >>> >>> http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?h=glib-2-32&id=7eae486179e2799c369ed9f

Re: Performance problems with emacs-X11 in current cygwin

2012-06-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/13/2012 2:40 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 6/10/2012 8:45 PM, Ken Brown wrote: The bisection shows that the first problematic commit is this one: http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?h=glib-2-32&id=7eae486179e2799c369ed9ffcea663bf9161ce79 Author: Ryan Lortie Date: Wed Aug 31 22:07:02 201

Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

2012-06-13 Thread marco atzeri
On 6/13/2012 9:47 PM, richw wrote: Christopher Faylor-8 wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:19:42AM -0700, richw wrote: I occasionally find that cygwin is broken, and I find that /usr/bin and /usr/lib no longer are useful. The mount command (for which I need to type /bin/mount) shows nothing

Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

2012-06-13 Thread richw
Christopher Faylor-8 wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:19:42AM -0700, richw wrote: >>I occasionally find that cygwin is broken, and I find that /usr/bin and >>/usr/lib no longer are useful. The mount command (for which I need to >>type /bin/mount) shows nothing mounted there. I type the fo

Re: Performance problems with emacs-X11 in current cygwin

2012-06-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/10/2012 8:45 PM, Ken Brown wrote: The bisection shows that the first problematic commit is this one: http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?h=glib-2-32&id=7eae486179e2799c369ed9ffcea663bf9161ce79 Author: Ryan Lortie Date: Wed Aug 31 22:07:02 2011 -0400 GMain: simplify logic for g_wake

Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

2012-06-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:19:42AM -0700, richw wrote: >I occasionally find that cygwin is broken, and I find that /usr/bin and >/usr/lib no longer are useful. The mount command (for which I need to >type /bin/mount) shows nothing mounted there. I type the following two >commands: >mount c:/cygwi

/bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

2012-06-13 Thread richw
I occasionally find that cygwin is broken, and I find that /usr/bin and /usr/lib no longer are useful. The mount command (for which I need to type /bin/mount) shows nothing mounted there. I type the following two commands: mount c:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin mount c:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib and things work (

Re: Expand stack in Cygwin

2012-06-13 Thread Robert Lewis
Thanks to all who wrote. Yes, the problem was that it should be Wl, not W1. (el not one) That makes the compiler happy, and actually solves the odd crashing I was getting. Robert H. Lewis Fordham University http://home.bway.net/lewis/ --- On Tue, 6/12/12, R Berber wrote: > > Subject: Re: E

FW: GetLogicallProcessorInformation(Ex) is missing?

2012-06-13 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
Thanks, but it seems like it's already there: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3490471&group_id=2435&atid=102435 Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there any reason why the AP

Cygwin hanging at the end of the installation (quiet mode, Windows 2008)

2012-06-13 Thread Costin Caraivan
Hello, I'm trying to automate some Cygwin installations on Windows 2008 servers. The command I'm using is this: c:\kits\setup.exe -q -n -d -A -N -s ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/cygwin.com -r C:\cygwin -l C:\cygwin\packages -P openssh,curl,wget,vim,zsh,git, rsync The installation itself is

Re: GetLogicallProcessorInformation(Ex) is missing?

2012-06-13 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any reason why the API is missing from the CYGWIN's headers > (/usr/include/win32api/*.h)? > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms683194(v=vs.85).aspx Because no one has needed it

GetLogicallProcessorInformation(Ex) is missing?

2012-06-13 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
Hi, Is there any reason why the API is missing from the CYGWIN's headers (/usr/include/win32api/*.h)? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms683194(v=vs.85).aspx Thanks, Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: expat 2.1.0-1

2012-06-13 Thread Warren Young
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