Clients don't connect to xwin server

2020-04-20 Thread Randy Dawson via Cygwin
I am stuck on this after several re-installs, remove cygwin64 dir and install from scratch. Any application (FVWM, fluxbox, Plasma, etc.) launches the xwindow server, but no mouse in the window, no applications. Closing the window says 3 clients running, so it did start them, but they dont appe

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-2.34-2 (x86/x86_64)(Test)

2020-04-20 Thread JonY via Cygwin
On 4/21/20 1:10 AM, Steven Penny wrote: >> The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: >> >> * binutils-2.34 > > Why is binutils still 24 MB? > Because the stripped down version is broken and not able to find w32api libraries, shared library builds are crashing on launc

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-2.34-2 (x86/x86_64)(Test)

2020-04-20 Thread Steven Penny via Cygwin
> The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: > > * binutils-2.34 Why is binutils still 24 MB? -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 02:44:41PM -0600, Bill Stewart wrote: >On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 2:09 PM Christopher Faylor wrote: >>With mailman, if you click on a message in the archives and then click >>on the email address at the top, your mail client of choice will be >>opened with correct "In-Reply-To"

Re: X crashes with SIGPIPE

2020-04-20 Thread Henry Gebhardt via Cygwin
On Mon, 2020-04-20 at 18:03 +0100, Jon Turney wrote: > On 18/04/2020 04:38, Henry Gebhardt via Cygwin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Cygwin/X crashes every few days for me. I managed to obtain a > > backtrace > > from the last crash (attached). Server log is also included. > > > > I have not, yet, manage

[ANNOUNCEMENT] biber 2.14-1

2020-04-20 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin-announce
The following package has been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * biber-2.14-1 Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of BibLaTeX. Biber supports full UTF-8, can (re-)encode input and output, supports highly configurable sorting, dynamic bibliography sets, and many other features. This is

[ANNOUNCEMENT] TeX Live 2020

2020-04-20 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin-announce
Cygwin's TeX Live packages have been updated to the latest upstream release, TeX Live 2020. TeX Live provides a comprehensive, cross-platform TeX system. It includes all the major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts that are free software, including support for many languages arou

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Bill Stewart
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 2:09 PM Christopher Faylor wrote: > With mailman, if you click on a message in the archives and then click > on the email address at the top, your mail client of choice will be > opened with correct "In-Reply-To" set. If you want to reply to the list > then replace the "To

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:59:08AM -0600, Brian Inglis wrote: >The new server ml archive does not seem to offer the metadata available on the >previous server and archive, and that is true of most archives that do not >allow >replies: probably a good way to reduce space required by 50-90%, from wh

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:41:32AM -0600, Bill Stewart wrote: >On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:20 AM Stephen Carrier wrote: >>I think the OP's first question was asking how to effectively join an >>existing thread when one is browsing the recent archives and not >>subscribed to the list. >> >>Joining th

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Bill Stewart
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 12:11 PM Eliot Moss wrote: > On 4/20/2020 1:41 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: > > > This exact problem is one of the main reasons why many organizations > > prefer a web-based forum rather than a mailing list. (NNTP is a > > possibility, but many [most?] organizations block NNTP a

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Eliot Moss
On 4/20/2020 1:41 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: This exact problem is one of the main reasons why many organizations prefer a web-based forum rather than a mailing list. (NNTP is a possibility, but many [most?] organizations block NNTP access for content management and security reasons.) One of the ot

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2020-04-20 11:20, Stephen Carrier wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 12:44:30PM -0600, Brian Inglis wrote: >> On 2020-04-17 12:16, Andrey Repin wrote: >>> Greetings, Stephen Carrier! I remember having had the same confusion the first few times I initiated threads. >> >>> When you start a

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Bill Stewart
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:20 AM Stephen Carrier wrote: > I think the OP's first question was asking how to effectively join > an existing thread when one is browsing the recent archives and not > subscribed to the list. > > Joining the list after seeing a question one would like to answer > doesn

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Stephen Carrier
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 12:44:30PM -0600, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2020-04-17 12:16, Andrey Repin wrote: > > Greetings, Stephen Carrier! > >> I remember having had the same confusion the first few times I initiated > >> threads. > > > When you start a new thread, do not reply to existing threads.

Re: X crashes with SIGPIPE

2020-04-20 Thread Jon Turney
On 18/04/2020 04:38, Henry Gebhardt via Cygwin wrote: Hi, Cygwin/X crashes every few days for me. I managed to obtain a backtrace from the last crash (attached). Server log is also included. I have not, yet, managed to pin down the exact trigger for the crash. I am running two graphical program

Re: latest openssh can not connect to older server

2020-04-20 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2020-04-20 04:11, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 19.04.2020 um 14:31 schrieb Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan via Cygwin: >> On Sun, 19 Apr 2020, 8:13 pm David Balažic via Cygwin, wrote: >>> I tried to backup some files from my server with scp and failed: >>> $ scp  -v  root@the.server:/root/a.file  . >>> Exe

Re: latest openssh can not connect to older server

2020-04-20 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 19.04.2020 um 14:31 schrieb Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan via Cygwin: Hi. New OpenSSH client will not connect to server that use SHA1. Please refer to this: https://www.openssh.com/legacy.html You should configure your old server to use more modern cipher This isn't always a feasible approach. I