autorebase.bat failure - "/etc/rebase.db.i386" is not a valid rebase database

2014-10-13 Thread Jim Garrison
This is a newly built win7.1 x64 system with Cygwin 32-bit installed. I recently ran the Cygwin installer to get updates and at the end of installation in the log I see: 2014/10/13 23:29:18 running: cmd.exe /c "C:\cygwin\etc\postinstall\autorebase.bat" gzip: /etc/setup/font-adobe-dpi75.lst.gz: no

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sharutils-4.14-2

2014-10-13 Thread Eric Blake (cygwin)
A new release of sharutils, 4.14-2, has been uploaded and will soon be available at your favorite mirror. This leaves 4.14-1 as the previous build. NEWS: = This is a minor rebuild that removes the 'compress' dummy executable now that the 'ncompress' package is available without patent restric

RE: emacs auto-indentation bug

2014-10-13 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
Thanx to Achim and Ken for their responses, but especially to an off-list responder (who may prefer to remain anonymous), who told me specifically how to disable these (unwanted) features. In case this is useful to anyone: To cause auto-indenting to use spaces instead of tabs: (setq-default inden

Re: fish PATH problem

2014-10-13 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 10/10/2014 14:46, Andrew Schulman wrote: OK, I rolled a new release of fish 2.1.1: x86: http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/x86/fish-2.1.1-1.tar.xz http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/x86/fish-2.1.1-1-src.tar.xz x86_64: http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/x86_64/fish-2.1.1-1.tar

Re: emacs auto-indentation bug

2014-10-13 Thread Achim Gratz
Nellis, Kenneth writes: > I haven't changed my ~/.emacs file since 2012, but sometime in the > last several weeks I've noticed changes in emacs behavior. > > 1. I've never turned on automatic indentation--don't actually know > how--yet if I indent a new line by pressing the tab key, when I hit > th

Re: emacs auto-indentation bug

2014-10-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/13/2014 2:26 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: I haven't changed my ~/.emacs file since 2012, but sometime in the last several weeks I've noticed changes in emacs behavior. 1. I've never turned on automatic indentation--don't actually know how--yet if I indent a new line by pressing the tab key

Re: HEADSUP to Emacs users

2014-10-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/13/2014 12:56 PM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: On 10/13/14 13:37, Ken Brown wrote: It works fine for me in that scenario. I didn't report it earlier, since it's not that important to me; howerver if I could solve... Do you get an error message when it crashes? Yes: ** (emacs:3752): W

Re: HEADSUP to Emacs users

2014-10-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/13/2014 12:21 PM, Doug Lewan wrote: -Original Message- From: ... On Behalf Of Ken Brown Sent: Saturday, 2014 October 11 13:37 To: cygwin Subject: HEADSUP to Emacs users In a continuing effort to track down the cause of the mysterious crashes that some Emacs users have reported, I'm

emacs auto-indentation bug

2014-10-13 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
I haven't changed my ~/.emacs file since 2012, but sometime in the last several weeks I've noticed changes in emacs behavior. 1. I've never turned on automatic indentation--don't actually know how--yet if I indent a new line by pressing the tab key, when I hit the enter key, the next line has b

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-8.23-4

2014-10-13 Thread Eric Blake (cygwin)
A new release of coreutils, 8.23-4, has been uploaded, and will be available soon from your favorite mirror. This replaces the experimental 8.23-3 and stable 8.23-2, and leaves 8.15-1 (32-bit) or 8.15-3 (64-bit) as previous. NEWS: = This is a minor update that fixes a regression in the -3 bui

Re: HEADSUP to Emacs users

2014-10-13 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 10/13/14 13:37, Ken Brown wrote: It works fine for me in that scenario. I didn't report it earlier, since it's not that important to me; howerver if I could solve... Do you get an error message when it crashes? Yes: ** (emacs:3752): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bu

Re: what path to use that is not DOS??

2014-10-13 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/11/2014 03:37 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: >> On 10/08/2014 01:55 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: >>> I get this message the 1st time logging in via 'rlogin': >>> >>> MS-DOS style path detected: >>> /Windows/System32/cygwin/usr/spool/mail/Bliss/law >>> Preferred POSIX equivalent is: >>

RE: HEADSUP to Emacs users

2014-10-13 Thread Doug Lewan
> -Original Message- > From: ... On > Behalf Of Ken Brown > Sent: Saturday, 2014 October 11 13:37 > To: cygwin > Subject: HEADSUP to Emacs users > > In a continuing effort to track down the cause of the mysterious > crashes > that some Emacs users have reported, I'm now wondering if these

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated (experimental): coreutils-8.23-3

2014-10-13 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/12/2014 02:56 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> With coreutils 8.23-2 this suceeds, with the -3 release you'll get the error >> cp: cannot create directory ‘ACLtest/profile.d’: File exists > > It's even simpler than that: > > $ cd /tmp > $ mkdir -p a/1/2 b/1/2 > $ touch a/1/2/x b/1/2/y

Re: HEADSUP to Emacs users

2014-10-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/13/2014 5:11 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Now, on Windows 7 with 64b Cygwin, emacs works fine in text mode and X, but will crash when I connect to this box via ssh and try to run it on a remote X terminal (while still working fine in text mode). It works fine for me in that scenario. Do y

Re: HEADSUP to Emacs users

2014-10-13 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 10/11/14 19:36, Ken Brown wrote: In a continuing effort to track down the cause of the mysterious crashes that some Emacs users have reported, I'm now wondering if these are caused by the stack being too small. If you have been experiencing crashes, please issue the following command (as admi

Re: Necessary To Query SACL Information?

2014-10-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 12 20:37, Bryan Berns wrote: > I noticed when I launch an executable, Cygwin queries SACL information > on the executable (which I can see in Process Monitor as a > 'QuerySecurityFile' operation). On some of my protected file servers, > this generates a failure audit. Looking at the source