Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 12 11:09, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 12/03/2014 10:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Mar 12 10:35, Marco Atzeri wrote: > >>On 12/03/2014 10:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> > > >>And the USB disk is full of similar files > >> > >>I just noticed that the 64bit is also available > >> > >>$ cd /

Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-12 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 12/03/2014 10:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 12 10:35, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 12/03/2014 10:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: And the USB disk is full of similar files I just noticed that the 64bit is also available $ cd /cygdrive/e/cygwin64/var/log $ ls -l ls: cannot access xwin: Bad add

Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 12 10:35, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 12/03/2014 10:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > >thanks for tracking this down. Still, it shouldn't result in a > >"Bad address" error, only in a GID value -1. Pity that you fixed > >it, otherwise your machine would be a wonderful guinea pig :} > > >

Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-12 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 12/03/2014 10:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: thanks for tracking this down. Still, it shouldn't result in a "Bad address" error, only in a GID value -1. Pity that you fixed it, otherwise your machine would be a wonderful guinea pig :} Thanks, Corinna That "Bad address" file is still av

Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Marco, On Mar 11 21:55, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 10/03/2014 11:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >built from CVS. No crash either. > > > > > >Corinna > > Hi Corinna, > > I think it is due to the unusual history of my cygwin installation, > that is triggering a corner case. > > The system is ins

Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-11 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 10/03/2014 11:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 10 07:46, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 10/03/2014 04:21, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 09:25:02PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Interesting problem. Windows always su

Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-10 Thread Bengt Larsson
Christopher Faylor wrote: >There is a new snapshot available which should fix the problem with >screen status bar. > >There are still issues with the console buffer and full screen apps >like vim/emacs/less. If you scroll the buffer while in that mode >then things will get weird. The solution so

Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 10 07:46, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 10/03/2014 04:21, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 09:25:02PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: > >>On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > > >Interesting problem. Windows always surprises. > > > >This should be fixed

Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-09 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 10/03/2014 04:21, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 09:25:02PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Interesting problem. Windows always surprises. This should be fixed in the upcoming snapshot. cgf $ uname -svr CYGWIN_N

Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 09:25:02PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> There are still issues with the console buffer and full screen apps >> like vim/emacs/less. If you scroll the buffer while in that mode >> then things will get weird. The so

Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-09 Thread Steven Penny
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > There are still issues with the console buffer and full screen apps > like vim/emacs/less. If you scroll the buffer while in that mode > then things will get weird. The solution so far is: Don't do that. 1. man bash 2. down arrow once

Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 03:14:32PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 03:26:33PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 07:14:49PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >>>* Christopher Faylor (Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:11:39 -0500) I forgot to mention that I manage

Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 03:26:33PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 07:14:49PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >>* Christopher Faylor (Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:11:39 -0500) >>> I forgot to mention that I managed to duplicate this problem and am >>> working on a fix for this and the

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-28 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Christopher Faylor (Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:26:33 -0500) > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 07:14:49PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > >* Christopher Faylor (Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:11:39 -0500) > >> I forgot to mention that I managed to duplicate this problem and am > >> working on a fix for this and the other sc

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 07:14:49PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >* Christopher Faylor (Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:11:39 -0500) >> I forgot to mention that I managed to duplicate this problem and am >> working on a fix for this and the other screen garbling seen in >> recent snapshots. > >Reporting a possi

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-27 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Christopher Faylor (Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:11:39 -0500) > I forgot to mention that I managed to duplicate this problem and am > working on a fix for this and the other screen garbling seen in > recent snapshots. Reporting a possibly related bug in connection with the latest snapshots: connecting t

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 04:17:11PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: >>> > Not specific to this snapshot but it happens when trying to test it: >>> > If a cygwin console is started from a cygwin terminal (e.g. in mintty: >>> > cygstart /Cygwin.bat), the TERM variable is set incorrectly. >>> >>

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-21 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> > Not specific to this snapshot but it happens when trying to test it: >> > If a cygwin console is started from a cygwin terminal (e.g. in mintty: >> > cygstart /Cygwin.bat), the TERM variable is set incorrectly. >> > Suggested fix: ... unset TERM to

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 21 11:49, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Thomas Wolff! > > > Not specific to this snapshot but it happens when trying to test it: > > If a cygwin console is started from a cygwin terminal (e.g. in mintty: > > cygstart /Cygwin.bat), the TERM variable is set incorrectly. > >

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-20 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Thomas Wolff! > Not specific to this snapshot but it happens when trying to test it: > If a cygwin console is started from a cygwin terminal (e.g. in mintty: > cygstart /Cygwin.bat), the TERM variable is set incorrectly. > Suggested fix: ... unset TERM to Cygwin.bat. >>>

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-20 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 20.02.2014 02:26, schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, Thomas Wolff! Not specific to this snapshot but it happens when trying to test it: If a cygwin console is started from a cygwin terminal (e.g. in mintty: cygstart /Cygwin.bat), the TERM variable is set incorrectly. Suggested fix: ... unset T

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 02:30:50PM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> I forgot to mention that I managed to duplicate this problem and am working >> on a fix for this and the other screen garbling seen in recent snapshots. > >Hm, with luck maybe that will also fix the recent garbled screen problem in

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-20 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I forgot to mention that I managed to duplicate this problem and am working > on a fix for this and the other screen garbling seen in recent snapshots. Hm, with luck maybe that will also fix the recent garbled screen problem in screen(1): http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-01/msg00223.html http

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 03:52:37PM +0100, Bengt Larsson wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:52:58PM +0100, Bengt Larsson wrote: >>>I start a console window, set the buffer to 1100 lines, display a lot in >>>it. Start bash, type ^L: the console window resizes to be only on

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-19 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Thomas Wolff! >>> Not specific to this snapshot but it happens when trying to test it: >>> If a cygwin console is started from a cygwin terminal (e.g. in mintty: >>> cygstart /Cygwin.bat), the TERM variable is set incorrectly. >>> Suggested fix: ... unset TERM to Cygwin.bat. >> unset wo

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-19 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 19.02.2014 23:24, schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, Thomas Wolff! Not specific to this snapshot but it happens when trying to test it: If a cygwin console is started from a cygwin terminal (e.g. in mintty: cygstart /Cygwin.bat), the TERM variable is set incorrectly. Suggested fix: ... unset T

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-19 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Thomas Wolff! > Not specific to this snapshot but it happens when trying to test it: > If a cygwin console is started from a cygwin terminal (e.g. in mintty: > cygstart /Cygwin.bat), the TERM variable is set incorrectly. > Suggested fix: ... unset TERM to Cygwin.bat. unset would be be

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-19 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 18.02.2014 20:08, schrieb Christopher Faylor: We are contemplating releasing an interim 1.7.29 which does not incorporate Corinna's revamping of Cygwin's uid/gid handling. So, please check out snapshots, paying particular attention to the non-passwd/group parts of this file: http://cygwin.co

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-19 Thread Bengt Larsson
Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:52:58PM +0100, Bengt Larsson wrote: >>I start a console window, set the buffer to 1100 lines, display a lot in >>it. Start bash, type ^L: the console window resizes to be only one line. >>Same result if bash was started first, then display data,

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:52:58PM +0100, Bengt Larsson wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>We are contemplating releasing an interim 1.7.29 which does >>not incorporate Corinna's revamping of Cygwin's uid/gid handling. >> >>So, please check out snapshots, paying particular attention to the >>non-p

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-19 Thread Bengt Larsson
Christopher Faylor wrote: >We are contemplating releasing an interim 1.7.29 which does >not incorporate Corinna's revamping of Cygwin's uid/gid handling. > >So, please check out snapshots, paying particular attention to the >non-passwd/group parts of this file: > >http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.c

Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
We are contemplating releasing an interim 1.7.29 which does not incorporate Corinna's revamping of Cygwin's uid/gid handling. So, please check out snapshots, paying particular attention to the non-passwd/group parts of this file: http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/release/1.7.