zp_octave_finish.dash fails when updating

2024-01-29 Thread Uwe F. Mayer via Cygwin
The script /etc/postinstall/zp_octave_finish.dash from octave-8.4.0-1.tar.bz2 fails during Cygwin update because that script expects the directory /usr/share/octave/packages to exist. Creating that directory fixes this error. CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19045 Windows-10-Laptop 3.5.0-0.617.g030a762535c1.x86_6

Re: Cygwin fails to create sockets correctly

2023-12-06 Thread Uwe F. Mayer via Cygwin
I found that if I start X or an ssh agent, and then manually set the system attribute on the socket file with something like (cd /tmp/.X11-unix/ && attrib +s X0) or (cd /tmp/ssh-gjJq8mINCmz0 && attrib +s agent.3145) then things work fine as far as X windows and ssh-agent are concerned. That mea

Cygwin fails to create sockets correctly

2023-11-22 Thread Uwe F. Mayer via Cygwin
Cygwin fails to create sockets correctly on some computers. Specifically, this fails on my machines with Windows 10 Enterprise, but works fine on a system with Windows 10 Pro. This was first observed on or about Nov 19, 2023. On one of the Windows 10 Enterprise machines X has been running for se