Re: Window flickering problem in XWin multiwindow mode

2022-04-29 Thread Mark Geisert
Replying to myself.. Hello, S.J. Luo wrote: SL on Apr 26, 2022: I have some EDA tools running on a Linux machine and display on my Windows PC using xorg-server-21.1.3 XWin multiwindow mode Sometimes the application window flickers forever for an unknown reason. The problem became more severe

Re: bash: cd: /cygdrive/w: Too many levels of symbolic links

2022-04-29 Thread Takashi Yano
On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 18:27:45 -0500 Wes Barris wrote: > On 4/29/2022 6:09 PM, Takashi Yano wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 14:21:01 -0500 > > Wes Barris wrote: > >> For the past couple of months the latest versions of cygwin produce this > >> error > >> when attempting to reference a network drive.

Re: Window flickering problem in XWin multiwindow mode

2022-04-29 Thread Mark Geisert
Hello, S.J. Luo wrote: SL on Apr 26, 2022: I have some EDA tools running on a Linux machine and display on my Windows PC using xorg-server-21.1.3 XWin multiwindow mode Sometimes the application window flickers forever for an unknown reason. The problem became more severe after my PC upgrade to

Re: Window flickering problem in XWin multiwindow mode

2022-04-29 Thread S.J. Luo
SL on Apr 26, 2022: > I have some EDA tools running on a Linux machine and display on my Windows > PC using xorg-server-21.1.3 XWin multiwindow mode > Sometimes the application window flickers forever for an unknown reason. > The problem became more severe after my PC upgrade to Windows10. > Afte

Re: cygdll 3.3.4 breaks cygpath.exe. mistyped commands result in fork bomb

2022-04-29 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
> Can you try the suggestions I made in my reply    >https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2022-February/250790.html ? sorry, no. Even though I have Admin I am unable to override this. Please note that all previous versions of cygwin1.dll (<3.3.3) are not interfered with. Though if this is indeed S

Re: bash: cd: /cygdrive/w: Too many levels of symbolic links

2022-04-29 Thread Wes Barris
On 4/29/2022 6:09 PM, Takashi Yano wrote: On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 14:21:01 -0500 Wes Barris wrote: For the past couple of months the latest versions of cygwin produce this error when attempting to reference a network drive. There have been a couple of other threads reporting this and talk about pat

Re: bash: cd: /cygdrive/w: Too many levels of symbolic links

2022-04-29 Thread Takashi Yano
On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 14:21:01 -0500 Wes Barris wrote: > For the past couple of months the latest versions of cygwin produce this > error > when attempting to reference a network drive. There have been a couple of > other > threads reporting this and talk about patches. Is there a fix coming fo

Re: cygdll 3.3.4 breaks cygpath.exe. mistyped commands result in fork bomb

2022-04-29 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/29/2022 2:25 PM, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote: --- Process 25852 loaded C:\Program Files\SentinelOne\Sentinel Agent 21.7.4.1043\InProcessClient64.dll at 7fff9d48 This looks like the problem that was reported here: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2022-February/250782.html

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: neomutt-20220429-1

2022-04-29 Thread Federico Kircheis via Cygwin-announce
Version 20220429-1 of neomutt has been uploaded. The command line mail reader neomutt reached version 20220429. On GitHub it is possible to find the changelog for the new release: https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/releases Federico -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html

bash: cd: /cygdrive/w: Too many levels of symbolic links

2022-04-29 Thread Wes Barris
For the past couple of months the latest versions of cygwin produce this error when attempting to reference a network drive. There have been a couple of other threads reporting this and talk about patches. Is there a fix coming for this in the production version of cygwin? $ cd /cygdrive/w b

Re: cygdll 3.3.4 breaks cygpath.exe. mistyped commands result in fork bomb

2022-04-29 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
I've identified the proximate cause. env CYGWIN_NOWINPATH= With this variable set at all (0 or 1, doesn't matter) typing ''l' (that's el) spawns several hundred bash.exe and fork bombs. From a stable prompt, typing 'exit' spawns 80+ bash.exe and I have to use the X button to kill the window and

Re: alternatives package dose not install /sbin executables

2022-04-29 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker
Am 29.04.2022 um 18:40 schrieb David Rogers via Cygwin: I successfully installed: alternatives1.3.30c-10 OK According to the alternatives package file list I should have the following executables installed: alternatives.exe and update-alternative

Re: cygdll 3.3.4 breaks cygpath.exe. mistyped commands result in fork bomb

2022-04-29 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
--- Process 25852 created--- Process 25852 loaded C:\Windows\System32\ntdll.dll at 7fffa01b--- Process 25852 loaded C:\Windows\System32\kernel32.dll at 7fff9eef--- Process 25852 loaded C:\Windows\System32\KernelBase.dll at 7fff9db0--- Process 25852 loaded C:\Program Fil

RE: Link of ONC RPC client fails with: undefined references

2022-04-29 Thread Voris, Ben
Thank you. This fixed it: - $(CC) $^ $(LD_LIBS) -o $@ + $(CC) $(LD_LIBS) -o $@ $^ Now I'm trying to understand why rpcbind fails at /usr/src/debug/rpcbind-1.2.5-1/src/rpcbind.c:287, even when run from an elevated command prompt: 268 if((p = getpwnam(id)) == NULL) { 269

alternatives package dose not install /sbin executables

2022-04-29 Thread David Rogers via Cygwin
Due to security I had to remove some lines from cygcheck report I successfully installed: alternatives1.3.30c-10 OK According to the alternatives package file list I should have the following executables installed: alternatives.exe and update-alt

Re: [Attn: mercurial maintainer] hg fails with python3.9

2022-04-29 Thread Jari Aalto
On 2022-04-29 12:23, Jon Turney wrote: > > >libdir = '../lib/python3.8/site-packages' > > > > > > This causes hg to fail as follows if /usr/bin/python3 points to python3.9: > > > >ERROR: package 'mercurial' version '5.7-3' is most recent non-test > > version, but version '6.0-1' is curr

Re: Home directory on network drive not accessible in 3.3.4

2022-04-29 Thread Takashi Yano
On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 13:59:59 +0200 Thomas Wolff wrote: > I upgraded 3.3.3 → 3.3.4 in a lab environment, where my home directory > is H:\ or /cygdrive/h > > Starting cygwin (cmd/bash or mintty) with some tools from gnuutils (like > ls) in the path gives me this message: > > mkdir: cannot create

Home directory on network drive not accessible in 3.3.4

2022-04-29 Thread Thomas Wolff
I upgraded 3.3.3 → 3.3.4 in a lab environment, where my home directory is H:\ or /cygdrive/h Starting cygwin (cmd/bash or mintty) with some tools from gnuutils (like ls) in the path gives me this message: mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/cygdrive/h’: File exists /cygdrive/h could not be creat

Re: `locale -s` shows incorrect info on systems where the language is changed after the OOBE

2022-04-29 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 29/04/2022 um 12:16 schrieb Gennaro Prota: Hi, the locale utility currently gets the system default UI locale (-s option) via GetSystemDefaultUILanguage(). This is a problem on systems where the default UI language is changed after the Windows Out of Box Experience (OOBE), because that funct

Re: Link of ONC RPC client fails with: undefined references

2022-04-29 Thread Jon Turney
On 29/04/2022 04:06, Voris, Ben wrote: I have simple ONC RPC client and server that build on Ubuntu with rpcgen "(Ubuntu GLIBC 2.31-0ubuntu9.7) 2.31" (under "5.10.102.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2") but fails to build on Cygwin ("3.3.4(0.341/5/3) 2022-01-31 19:35 x86_64 Cygwin") with rpcgen "(rpcsv

`locale -s` shows incorrect info on systems where the language is changed after the OOBE

2022-04-29 Thread Gennaro Prota
Hi, the locale utility currently gets the system default UI locale (-s option) via GetSystemDefaultUILanguage(). This is a problem on systems where the default UI language is changed after the Windows Out of Box Experience (OOBE), because that function will happily ignore the fact (see < https://

Re: [Attn: mercurial maintainer] hg fails with python3.9

2022-04-29 Thread Jari Aalto
On 2022-04-28 10:27, Ken Brown wrote: > /usr/bin/hg specifies /usr/bin/python3 in its shebang, but further down it has > > libdir = '../lib/python3.8/site-packages' > > This causes hg to fail as follows if /usr/bin/python3 points to python3.9: > > $ hg > Traceback (most recent call last): >

Re: GNU make losing jobserver tokens

2022-04-29 Thread Takashi Yano
On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 17:32:22 +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 29 00:01, Takashi Yano wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:09:24 +0200 > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Apr 28 09:42, Ken Brown wrote: > > > > On 4/27/2022 10:13 AM, Takashi Yano wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 1 Apr 2022 17:45:51 +0900

Re: cygdll 3.3.4 breaks cygpath.exe. mistyped commands result in fork bomb

2022-04-29 Thread Takashi Yano
On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 00:22:09 + (UTC) matthew patton wrote: > I had to revert to 3.3.3-1 to restore functionality.with 3.3.4 invoking > cygpath would cause an Access Violation Exception (0x05) and kill the thread > so that I couldn't even do a 'cygpath --help'  > > All of a sudden I also am e