changing cygdrive prefix in fstab has no effect

2014-09-02 Thread Mitch Deoudes
I'm teaching a class at a local college, and since their computer lab is stocked with Windows 7 & 8 machines, I had them install cygwin64 to use as a command line. The only change I requested they make to the config is to replace the "/cygdrive" in /etc/fstab with "/". This is my config at home,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: python3-h5py-2.3.1-1

2014-09-02 Thread Chris LeBlanc
Version 2.3.1-1 of python3-h5py has been uploaded for both x86 and x86_64. The h5py package is a Pythonic interface to the HDF5 binary data format. It lets you store huge amounts of numerical data, and easily manipulate that data from NumPy. For example, you can slice into multi-terabyte datasets

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: python-h5py-2.3.1-1

2014-09-02 Thread Chris LeBlanc
Version 2.3.1-1 of python-h5py has been uploaded for both x86 and x86_64. The h5py package is a Pythonic interface to the HDF5 binary data format. It lets you store huge amounts of numerical data, and easily manipulate that data from NumPy. For example, you can slice into multi-terabyte datasets s

Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

2014-09-02 Thread Gerry Reno
On 09/02/2014 01:50 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > > On 02/09/2014 19:37, Achim Gratz wrote: >> Gerry Reno writes: >>> I have a script that issues this command: >>> >>> run $WINDIR/system32/mstsc.exe /multimon /v:$IP:3389 >>> >>> >>> And before this script has always succeeded but now it errors

Re: pdfroff (or groff) broken?

2014-09-02 Thread Norton Allen
On 9/2/2014 3:30 PM, gjnospam2014-cyg...@yahoo.com wrote: WJFFM. This is a standard cygwin acronym [https://cygwin.com/acronyms/] indicating that the problem could not be reproduced. https://cygwin.com/problems.html This is a request for more information, i.e. following the standard pro

Re: (call-process ...) hangs in emacs

2014-09-02 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > $ setfacl -d g:system: filename > > Note the trailing colon. That's not what the man page specifies, however. I'll keep it in mind. >> Removing the group >> owner ACL instead did the right thing in at least one instance. > > ??? It shouldn't. Removing the standard

Re: (call-process ...) hangs in emacs

2014-09-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 2 21:42, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > More or less, just compare the ACLs and see if you find strange > > differences. This only works for the ACLs created or modified with > > `setfacl' and the snapshot DLL. > > I see, I'll have to make extra tests for this. Usually

Re: (call-process ...) hangs in emacs

2014-09-02 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > More or less, just compare the ACLs and see if you find strange > differences. This only works for the ACLs created or modified with > `setfacl' and the snapshot DLL. I see, I'll have to make extra tests for this. Usually I just have to live with some inherited ACL tha

Re: pdfroff (or groff) broken?

2014-09-02 Thread gjnospam2014-cyg...@yahoo.com
> WJFFM. > > https://cygwin.com/problems.html Well, gee, thanks for SFA. FWIW it works fine for me now I have reverted to a previous installation. Sucks to be anyone else who might encounter this problem in the future though, huh? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: (call-process ...) hangs in emacs

2014-09-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 2 19:29, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > >> Installed, everything looks fine so far. > > > > Thanks for testing! Maybe you'd like to have a view into the simple > > as well as the more complex ACLs created by Cygwin? Icacls output > > is moderately easy to read. If you ha

Re: Windows Server 2012R2 64bit and 32bit Cygwin sshd

2014-09-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 2 16:24, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > I have no idea what could be wrong in your environment, sorry. > > Some more information: up until the check for /etc/nologin everything works. > Things fall apart when sshd tries to switch to the user logging on. I'

Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

2014-09-02 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 02/09/2014 19:37, Achim Gratz wrote: Gerry Reno writes: I have a script that issues this command: run $WINDIR/system32/mstsc.exe /multimon /v:$IP:3389 And before this script has always succeeded but now it errors as follows: Invalid connection file (/v:192.168.1.27:3389) spec

Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

2014-09-02 Thread Achim Gratz
Gerry Reno writes: > I have a script that issues this command: > > run $WINDIR/system32/mstsc.exe /multimon /v:$IP:3389 > > > And before this script has always succeeded but now it errors as follows: > > Invalid connection file (/v:192.168.1.27:3389) specified > > In a terminal window I ca

Re: pdfroff (or groff) broken?

2014-09-02 Thread Achim Gratz
gjnospam2014-cyg...@yahoo.com writes: > I'm getting this whenever I try to convert any document: WJFFM. https://cygwin.com/problems.html Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptations for Waldorf Q V3.00R3 and Q+ V3.54R2: http://Synth.Str

Re: Windows Server 2012R2 64bit and 32bit Cygwin sshd

2014-09-02 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > Don't use privilege separation, then the non-privileged sshd user won't > matter at all. Privsep on Cygwin is only half-useful on Cygwin anyway, > if at all. As for the local cyg_server account, I'm not sure. Usually, > a local machine account has no or only limited ac

Re: (call-process ...) hangs in emacs

2014-09-02 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: >> Installed, everything looks fine so far. > > Thanks for testing! Maybe you'd like to have a view into the simple > as well as the more complex ACLs created by Cygwin? Icacls output > is moderately easy to read. If you have questions or concerns... I've used icacls in

Re: Windows Server 2012R2 64bit and 32bit Cygwin sshd

2014-09-02 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > I have no idea what could be wrong in your environment, sorry. Some more information: up until the check for /etc/nologin everything works. Things fall apart when sshd tries to switch to the user logging on. I've traced this again, sshd apparently then tri

Re: Windows Server 2012R2 64bit and 32bit Cygwin sshd

2014-09-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 2 15:16, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > I have no idea what could be wrong in your environment, sorry. > > Me neither. I've set all three Cygwin environments up exactly the same way, > using identical users and command lines (just different service names, >

Re: Windows Server 2012R2 64bit and 32bit Cygwin sshd

2014-09-02 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > I have no idea what could be wrong in your environment, sorry. Me neither. I've set all three Cygwin environments up exactly the same way, using identical users and command lines (just different service names, obviously). I still have to use a local cyg_se

Re: cygwin rename util doesn't parse leading dash in expression argument correctly (thinks it is an option)

2014-09-02 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 02/09/2014 16:43, Dat Head wrote: Cygwin 1.7.30-1 $ ls -l *-fixed.flac -rw-r--r-- 1 foo None 0 Sep 1 13:47 a-fixed.flac -rw-r--r-- 1 foo None 0 Sep 1 13:47 b-fixed.flac $ rename '-fixed' '' *-fixed.flac rename: unknown option -- f you need to tell rename that the options are ended with -

cygwin rename util doesn't parse leading dash in expression argument correctly (thinks it is an option)

2014-09-02 Thread Dat Head
Cygwin 1.7.30-1 $ ls -l *-fixed.flac -rw-r--r-- 1 foo None 0 Sep 1 13:47 a-fixed.flac -rw-r--r-- 1 foo None 0 Sep 1 13:47 b-fixed.flac $ rename '-fixed' '' *-fixed.flac rename: unknown option -- f Usage: rename [options] expression replacement file... Options: -v, --verboseexplain what

Re: Windows Server 2012R2 64bit and 32bit Cygwin sshd

2014-09-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 2 11:51, Achim Gratz wrote: > Achim Gratz nexgo.de> writes: > > - Windows Server 2012R2 64bit running on hardware > > - domain member > > - Cygwin 32bit (latest snapshot from 2014-08-31 w/ AD integration) > > > > can anybody confirm they have gotten sshd successfully running? As far > >

latest cygwin: 'run' problem

2014-09-02 Thread Gerry Reno
I just updated to the latest cygwin via setup and now my run commands are failing. I have a script that issues this command: run $WINDIR/system32/mstsc.exe /multimon /v:$IP:3389 And before this script has always succeeded but now it errors as follows: Invalid connection file (/v:192.

Re: pdfroff (or groff) broken?

2014-09-02 Thread gjnospam2014-cygwin
More information: $ file pdfroffisbroken pdfroffisbroken: ASCII text, with no line terminators $ cat pdfroffisbroken pdfroff is broken $ pdfroff --no-toc-relocation --report-progress --pdf-output=foo.pdf pdfroffisbroken Resolving references ... done Formatting document ... body section ... done

pdfroff (or groff) broken?

2014-09-02 Thread gjnospam2014-cyg...@yahoo.com
I'm getting this whenever I try to convert any document: /usr/bin/pdfroff: line 651: 684 Done ${PDFROFF_COLLATE-"$SED"} ${PDFROFF_KILL_NULL_PAGES-' /%%Page:/{ N /%%BeginPageSetup/b again } b :again /%%EndPageSetup/b finish /%%

Re: Windows Server 2012R2 64bit and 32bit Cygwin sshd

2014-09-02 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz nexgo.de> writes: > - Windows Server 2012R2 64bit running on hardware > - domain member > - Cygwin 32bit (latest snapshot from 2014-08-31 w/ AD integration) > > can anybody confirm they have gotten sshd successfully running? As far > as I can debug this, the sshd I have installed goe

Re: mktime call hangs on Cygwin 1.7.30, Windows 7 32 bit

2014-09-02 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 02/09/2014 13:10, Alexey Shumkin wrote: Prelude. I use "self-compiled" Git (v2.x) on Cygwin (v1.7.30). Sometimes Git v2.0.4 hung while performing git prune --expire 2.weeks.ago I have investigated while debugging that `mktime` call hung. But that was an avoidable bug (skip prune - and all

Re: mktime call hangs on Cygwin 1.7.30, Windows 7 32 bit

2014-09-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 2 15:10, Alexey Shumkin wrote: > Prelude. > I use "self-compiled" Git (v2.x) on Cygwin (v1.7.30). > Sometimes Git v2.0.4 hung while performing > git prune --expire 2.weeks.ago > > I have investigated while debugging that `mktime` call hung. > But that was an avoidable bug (skip prune - a

mktime call hangs on Cygwin 1.7.30, Windows 7 32 bit

2014-09-02 Thread Alexey Shumkin
Prelude. I use "self-compiled" Git (v2.x) on Cygwin (v1.7.30). Sometimes Git v2.0.4 hung while performing git prune --expire 2.weeks.ago I have investigated while debugging that `mktime` call hung. But that was an avoidable bug (skip prune - and all is ok). So, I've not reported it. But after u

Re: freopen failed, core dumped

2014-09-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 1 21:23, Gery . wrote: > Hello, > > I received the following message after using a computer-intensive > program (seismic unix): > > > freopen failed in VNDseekVNDrwslice: seek failed mode = r iopanel = 0 idim = > 0 iblock = 400 ipanel = 0 > Aborted (core dumped) > > What means that mes

Re: (call-process ...) hangs in emacs

2014-09-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 1 19:38, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > Over the weekend it occured to me that the acl(2) function created ACLs > > which not aligned well with the ACLs created by open(2),chmod(2), etc. > > Yesterday I fixed the acl(2) function to create ACLs the same way as > > the oth

Re: [BUG] Nasty bug persists on x86-64

2014-09-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 2 11:06, Pavel Fedin wrote: > Hello Corinna! > > > Try `bt' at this point. Maybe the backtrace shows something of > > interest. > > You haven't read the message completely. 'bt' cannot help since > there's no debug information for ntdll and gdb is unable to unwind > the stack correct

RE: [BUG] Nasty bug persists on x86-64

2014-09-02 Thread Pavel Fedin
Hello Corinna! > Try `bt' at this point. Maybe the backtrace shows something of > interest. You haven't read the message completely. 'bt' cannot help since there's no debug information for ntdll and gdb is unable to unwind the stack correctly. > Apart from that, try the latest snapshot from