Re: Sshd behaving strangely...

2015-09-07 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
>> Please teach your mail agent to not break threading. Sorry for this. Yes, this particular mailer is really bad, I'll have to re-register with the Cygwin mail list from a better one. >> This is a different issue, judging from the error message. >> [...] >> A verbose log of the same connection

Re: Sshd behaving strangely...

2015-09-06 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
> OpenSSH 7.0 (and thus the current 7.1) deprecated a couple > of old and insecure ciphers. Probably that's the reason. Well, what I mean is that it is strange that sshd-7.1p1-1 accepts a connection from ssh-3.9p1, upon announcing that the "key type ssh-dss [is] not in PubkeyAcceptedKeyTy

Sshd behaving strangely...

2015-09-05 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
Greetings, I have installed Cygwin on a Windows 8.1 Enterprise workstation. It is a most recent full download of the whole Cygwin suite (within a week or so). Here are the relevant numbers: Windows 8.1 Enterprise Ver 6.3 Build 9600 [...] Cygwin DLL version info: DLL version: 2.2.1 DLL epoch

Re: Emacs: ispell fails

2014-10-17 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
>>> The question is why aspell thinks the encoding is "nil". Ah, indeed. Would the following have set it so: (setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'no-conversion) What would be the best (i.e., least intrusive) setting to use here? Cheers, Gustav Meglicki Indiana University -- Problem rep

Emacs: ispell fails

2014-10-16 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
ispell-message and ispell-region fail in Emacs with the following message: == Starting new Ispell process /usr/bin/aspell with default dictionary... ispell-init-process: Error: The encoding "nil" is not known. This could also mean that the file "/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/nil.cset" could not be opened f

Emacs-w32... Still Crashing

2014-07-07 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
The current version of Emacs that I have is emacs   24.3.91-1OK emacs debuginfo 24.3.91-1OK emacs-el24.3.91-1    OK emacs-w32   24.3.91-1OK emacs-X11   24.3.91-1OK Cygwin is Cyg

Emacs-w32 ... still crashing

2014-06-17 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
When I go to snapshots on the Cygwin site, there are only Cygwin dlls there. Where is the latest Emacs stuff? And which version of Emacs should go with which Cygwin dll? Gustav Meglicki Indiana University -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygw

Re: Emacs-w32 ... still crashing

2014-06-17 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
Yes, on running cygcheck -cv gdb I get the same output as you do: the info documentation is missing. Why is it missing? Do I need to request it explicitly, or is it missing from Cygwin distribution? Gustav Meglicki Indiana University -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Emacs-w32 ... still crashing

2014-06-17 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
Following my previous message, the versions: Cygwin DLL version info:     DLL version: 1.7.30     DLL epoch: 19 DLL old termios: 5     DLL malloc env: 28     Cygwin conv: 181     API major: 0     API minor: 272     Shared data: 5     DLL identifier:

Emacs-w32... still crashing

2014-06-17 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
OK, the latest crash, after the latest upgrades, about which in the follow up posting. I was running emacs-w32 under gdb. Emacs crashed on segmentation fault and the backtrace points to... (Emacs) alloc. Here it is: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x7ff9778dec8b in ??

Emacs-w32... still crashing

2014-06-04 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
This is just to confirm: I had a yet another crash, was running my emacs session under gdb and captured the event. The trace is the same as before, that is, there is a problem in deselect_palette that causes segmentation fault. Yes, I will report the bug to Emacs maintainers. Zdzislaw (Gustav) Me

Emacs-w32... still crashing

2014-06-03 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
And... another crash. I didn't run it under gdb this time and it didn't dump anything either, but I got interesting new message I didn't see before: *** fatal error - WFSO failed waiting for timer thread, Win32 error 0 Interesting? Perhaps all these crashes have something to do with the timer? Z

Emacs-w32... still crashing

2014-06-03 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
And another crash... captured under gdb again. Segmentation fault again, but this time: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x000100631d84 in deselect_palette (f=0x0, hdc=0x0) at /usr/src/debug/emacs-24.3.90-1/src/w32xfns.c:123 123 if (f->output_data.w32->old_palette)

Emacs-w32... still crashing

2014-06-03 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
This time we've been running it under gdb and I managed to capture the crash. It aborted upon having received SIGABRT, and printed the following: Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. 0x00010064ed67 in xg_select (fds_lim=4428800, rfds= 0x1800c46cd , wfds=0x4392e0, efds=0x439a90, timeout=

Emacs-w32... still crashing...

2014-05-21 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
It just crashed on me again, after a couple of days of no crashes at all. The versions of everything are unchanged since my last message. But this time, and this is new, I have not seen it before, it did not give me the gdb option. Instead it just crashed and said: "Segmentation fault (core dumped

Emacs-w32... still crashing...

2014-05-19 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
I got it this time. It crashed on me just a few seconds after I started it, while reading mail with rmail. This time I had the right debug info installed for this version of emacs and here is the backtrace: = (gdb) backtrace #0 0x7ff9550c9e3b in KER

Emacs-w32... still crashing...

2014-05-14 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
OK, I've manage to catch it this time. But it looks like it didn't get very far, because the info in emacs-w32.exe.dbg appears to be wrong. Here's what happens: 515 $ ps -ef UID PIDPPID TTYSTIME COMMAND gustav 19900 1 ?07:51:01 /usr/bin/ssh-agent gustav 38280 17

Re: Emacs-w32... crashing problem

2014-05-13 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
Ken Brown writeth: > Please describe the crash in more detail.  > What were you doing when it happened? Did > the window just disappear, or did you get > a dialogue box asking if you want to attach > a debugger? Did you get any messages in the > terminal that emacs was started from? Is > t

Emacs-w32... crashing problem

2014-05-13 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
Well, the crashing problem in emacs-w32 is greatly improved, yet, the program still crashed on me yesterday, after a good few days of seamless performance. The emacs-version function returns: (emacs-version) "GNU Emacs 24.3.90.1 (x86_64-unknown-cygwin)  of 2014-05-03 on Fiona" Other sys params:

emacs-w32, version 24.3.1, crashes constantly

2014-05-01 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
ed data: 5 DLL identifier: cygwin1 Mount registry: 3 Cygwin registry name: Cygwin Program options name: Program Options Installations name: Installations Cygdrive default prefix: Build date: Shared id: cygwin1S5 Zdzislaw Meglicki Bloomington, Indiana, USA -- Problem reports: http://

Re: emacs-24.3.1 crashes on talking to Google

2013-08-30 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
Ken Brown writeth thusly:    > I don't use Windows 8, but I just checked on Windows 7, and it works for me. Under Windows 7, it works for me too. I have another machine with Cygwin,  emacs-24.2.1 and Windows 7, and there is no problem talking to Google there. The new installation on Windows 8 r

Re: emacs-24.3.1 crashes on talking to Google

2013-08-29 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
Ken asks: > This is not specific to Cygwin.  If it belongs anywhere, it should be in the > emacs manual.   > I just looked at the section "Emacs speaks SMTP" in the smtpmail > documentation, and > the instructions look pretty clear to me.  What happens if you follow those > instructions, > re

Re: emacs-24.3.1 crashes on talking to Google

2013-08-28 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
Ken Brown wrote:      > What's the exact error message?    > And can you reproduce this starting with 'emacs -Q'?   Yes, the error shows when emacs is started with -Q. Here it is:   $ emacs-x11 -Q ** (emacs-x11:32728): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Er

Re: emacs-24.3.1 crashes on talking to Google

2013-08-28 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
-default-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com"    smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com"    smtpmail-smtp-service 587    smtpmail-debug-info t)  (require 'smtpmail)   === On Wednesday, August 28, 2013 5:23 AM David Carr

emacs-24.3.1 crashes on talking to Google

2013-08-27 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
I have a fresh installation of Cygwin and Emacs on Windows 8 Pro, which run on AMD A8-5500 (quadcore, 64bit). The versions are as follows: Emacs 24.3.1 Cygwin 1.7.24 I have two problems with emacs. First, when I start it under X11, but not under KDE, it spews a message about not being able to c

A problem with perl and cygpixman-1-0.dll

2012-10-31 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
  > funny, I build it but forgot and never installed. At least you can remove   > the third one. Err... which is the third one? Let me list the three here and you tell me which can be removed: $ pwd /usr/lib/perl5 $ find . -name Magick.dll -print ./site_perl/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/auto/I

Re: A problem with perl and cygpixman-1-0.dll

2012-10-31 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
>> ./vendor_perl/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads- >> 64int/auto/Image/Magick/Magick.dll   > the other two are probably coming from your build, > are the same or installed in different times ?   I have by now overwritten my own installation with the vanilla Cygwin perl-Image-Magick and perl-Graphics-Mag

Re: A problem with perl and cygpixman-1-0.dll

2012-10-31 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
Yes, I did run perlrebase this time, but it didn't change anything. I just went into ash, as Administrator, then defined the PATH=/bin:/usr/bin, and typed $ perlrebase without any options. It did flag new addresses and sizes, but this did not fix the problem. As you suggested previously, it

Re: A problem with perl and cygpixman-1-0.dll

2012-10-30 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
   > try rebaseall and perlrebase but I doubt it is the root cause.   I've done rebaseall and rebase -s on the cygpixman-1-0.dll explicitly, also on the Magick.dll, just to make sure. It makes no difference. I use ImageMagick distributed with the recent version of Cygwin, that is ImageMagick-6.7.6

A problem with perl and cygpixman-1-0.dll

2012-10-30 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
I have a problem with perl scripts that attempt to load cygpixman-1-0.dll. When running a test on PerlMagick-6.76 I get the following: $ make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t t/bzlib/*.t t/jpeg/*.t t/jng/*.t

Re: exim-4.76-1 fails to remove lock ... and Cygwin xterm and emacs-X11 broken...

2011-10-27 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
Thank you so much for your help. I'm doing this right now... Perhaps this will fix my X11 problems (with xterm and emacs-X11) as well... Let's see... bunzipped... moved... stopped Cygwin servers... renamed /bin/cygwin1.dll... restarted servers... (they work)... Cygwin shell ... works... sent mai

Re: exim-4.76-1 fails to remove lock from spooler on delivery

2011-10-26 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
I wonder why this should be a problem. The file does exist on my system and it should be readable and executable to groups root and  SYSTEM: $ cd /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32 $ ls -l winmm.dll -rwxrwx---+ 2 194048 Nov 20  2010 winmm.dll $ getfacl winmm.dll # file: winmm.dll # ow

Cygwin xterm and emacs-X11 broken in Windows 7

2011-10-26 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
ng to cygwin at cygwin dot com as well. Perhaps related: in emacs-X11 entering the shell mode (M-x shell) kills the shell. I just get a prompt, then "exit" and a message    Process shell finished This does *not* happen in emacs-nox, neither does this happen in xemacs. I attac

Re: exim-4.76-1 fails to remove lock from spooler on delivery

2011-10-26 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
I've just done it and... it works without the problem flagged earlier. But when I send a message to the (exim) server from another machine, the problem returns... Gustav - Original Message [... snip...] Does that happen also when you type from a bash window on the server: exim gusta

Re: exim-4.76-1 fails to remove lock from spooler on delivery

2011-10-26 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
02MK-LW appendfile transport process returned non-zero status 0x0001: terminated by signal 1 2011-10-26 13:33:46 LTOOS9-0002MK-LW == gustav at yanchep R=localuser T=local_delivery defer (-1) 2011-10-26 13:33:46 LTOOS9-0002MK-LW Frozen root $ Do I need to enable something or run an auxiliary service? C

rebase problem

2011-10-24 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
about. The last file processed is there (as shown above).  I enclose the output (compressed) of cygcheck -s -v -r. Zdzislaw Meglicki Indiana University http://perth.ovpit.indiana.edu/gustavls cygcheck.out.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data -- Problem reports: http://cygwi

ssh-agent fails to create socket

2011-10-14 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
ry: 3 Cygwin registry name: Cygwin Program options name: Program Options Installations name: Installations Cygdrive default prefix: Build date: Shared id: cygwin1S5 Zdzislaw Meglicki Indiana University cygcheck.log.gz Description: application/compressed -- Problem reports: http://cygwi

LaTeX not finding files in TEXINPUTS

2011-09-16 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
I have recently upgraded my Cygwin to the latest (full) installation, and noticed that my old trustworthy tetex has been replaced with pdfetex. On running LaTeX I found that it could no longer find input files pointed to by my TEXINPUTS environment variable, which is normally set to .:/home/gusta

Emacs bug?

2004-03-15 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
These are tidings of great sorrow and melancholy, for ever since I upgraded X11 on my Cygwin workstation (about a week ago) I lost my reliable faithful friend, GNU Emacs, whose X11 version crashes often and unpredictably with segmentation fault (the "nox" version runs fine). I run Emacs and X11 se