Setup.hint for base-passwd is incorrect

I've just investigated an anomaly with the base-passwd package, which turns out to be an incorrect setup.hint file in the repository. repository base-passwd directories contain base-passwd-2.0-1.tar.bz2 30-Nov-2003 07:16 1k base-passwd-2.1-1.tar.bz2 21-Aug-2004 11:48 1k m

Re: Cygserver 100% CPU (was: References to both cygwin1.dll and msvcrt.dl

--- Patrick Samson wrote: > > --- Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Patrick Samson wrote: > > > > > I use a dll which have references to both > > > cygwin and m$: > > > $ cygcheck /usr/share/tcl8.4/dp4.0/win/dp40.dll > > > D:/cygwin/usr/share/tcl8.4/dp4.0/win/dp40.dll > > > D:\

RE: Program exited with code 0303000

OK, my voyage of discovery continues. I've added exception specifications to the appropriate functions (declarations and definitions - took a while to work out I needed it on both) but no change in behaviour. I've also remembered why I started to look at dumper.exe - If I don't run the prog in gdb

Re: ssh-agent: Cygwin version problems

I've discovered that some of the information in my post below is wrong: On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 10:54:29 -0400, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've been using OpenSSH with Cygwin for a while now, very >successfully. Thanks to all who put this together. > >I'd like to set up my machine for

Re: How can you change the DLL name in the .idata section header of a DLL?

[ I switched from cygwin-apps, where it is not appropriate ] Charles Wilson schrieb: Reini Urban wrote: Spoofing is a good point. But I might prefer to be able to update dynamic dependencies without breakage. openssl usually gets updated with an security issue. e.g curl or postgresql cannot deal w

Re: Cygserver 100% CPU (was: References to both cygwin1.dll and msvcrt.dl

--- Patrick Samson wrote: > > --- Patrick Samson wrote: > > Since my post I found a way to reproduce on > > development the problem I have on production. > > At some point cygserver hits 100%CPU and Postgres > > backends are no more able to serve requests. > > Now I must narrow the number of comp

Re: cygserver won't start (FAQ alert)[SOLVED]

Larry Hall wrote: True but you won't see a difference. When you say "Task Scheduler", you mean the Windows service/utility, right? Just curious. There's the same issue with 'cron' and any service that runs under "SYSTEM". It has no access to shares that require authentication to access. So yo

Re: cygserver won't start (FAQ alert)

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:25:06 -0400 (EDT), Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > David, this is definitely an FAQ, but there is nothing in the FAQ about > > services (other than the "how do I install snapshots" entry). Should we > > add something along

Re: Cygserver 100% CPU (was: References to both cygwin1.dll and msvcrt.dl

> Special note for Postgresql users: > So far I can only reproduce this problem if these > 3 conditions are met: > - many connections (20, 25, 27) doing a simple > SELECT > - a script running SELECT, CREATE/DROP TABLE/INDEX > ... > - a pgAdmin III connected (but without activity) > (Postgresql ver

Re: Cygwin df -l option has wrong sense?

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, luke.kendall wrote: > According to df --help, the -l option means to list only local drives. > But in practice it seems to do the exact opposite: > > $ df -k /cygdrive/c/cygwin > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > C:\cygwin

Re: Cygserver 100% CPU (was: References to both cygwin1.dll and msvcrt.dl

Sigh, Just after this post, I ran into the hang. So pgAdmin II is no better, may be just a little more difficult to fire the hang. Still searching ... --- Patrick Samson wrote: > > > Special note for Postgresql users: > > So far I can only reproduce this problem if these > > 3 conditions are met

RE: win95 pipe problems -- report + testcase + patch

This patch is not in the current release (1.5.11-1). I can't compile it myself, because ./config fails (because it uses pipes). Can someone give me some kind of timeframe when the next version will be released (with this patch in it)? Thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsu

Re: win95 pipe problems -- report + testcase + patch

Donald Wallace Rouse II wrote: > > This patch is not in the current release (1.5.11-1). > I can't compile it myself, because ./config fails (because it uses pipes). > Can someone give me some kind of timeframe when the next version will be released > (with this patch in it)? http://cygwin.com/sn

seg-vios from gcc program at execv() on Windows XP

Hello Cygwiners, I'm a long-time user of Cygwin - love it, depend on it... and rarely have a problem, but I really need some help with this one particular problem. I've already tapped into my other technical resources on this and haven't gotten anywhere at all. It isn't clear this is a Cygwin pro

RE: cp to flash drive very slow

Thanks for responding, Gary. > Regardless, <3.7Mb/second seems like something's wrong somewhere. Are you > running USB2.0 hub-to-device? I dunno. I'm not very knowledgable about hardware esp. USB. How would I tell? dar On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > I tried using cp to c

Re: Cygserver 100% CPU (was: References to both cygwin1.dll and msvcrt.dl

On Sep 30 00:12, Patrick Samson wrote: > I built the DLL another way, and now have: > $ cygcheck ./dp40.dll > .\dp40.dll > D:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll < > C:\WINNT\System32\ADVAPI32.DLL > C:\WINNT\System32\ntdll.dll > C:\WINNT\System32\KERNEL32.dll > C:\WINNT\S

Re: [ITP] libgpg-error-1.0-2

Hi Lapo, > Is a review really needed if the package is based on Gerrit's work? > It's HIM that corrected my last packages actually ;-) Nobody is perfect! Nobody -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: Problems on Itanium: Found the Cause, What's Next?

On Sep 30 09:01, Alex Alexandrov wrote: > Hi, Alex Alexandrov, you wrote > > >I've posted the bug report to public.win32.programming.kernel and > >private.windowsserver_64bit msft mailing lists - no answer so far... > > OK, there is a reply from msft: "The problem is being checked out". Does it

Re: seg-vios from gcc program at execv() on Windows XP

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Richard Troy wrote: > Hello Cygwiners, I believe the technical term is "cygwinners" (unless you really mean "cygwhiners"? ];->) > I'm a long-time user of Cygwin - love it, depend on it... and rarely have > a problem, but I really need some help with this one particular probl

Re: [PATCH] cygrunsrv --recovery

On Sep 29 18:31, Rainer Hochreiter wrote: > the attached patch implements the options -r or --recovery to set service > failure actions. allowed actions are 'none', 'boot' or 'restar'. > not implemented are actions for running commands on failed actions, like > supported by the windows SCM. > > th

cygwin locale broken? (was: Re: gnome 2.8.0 and external dependencies)

Hi Yang, I switched this thread over to the main list. > Just try the small test program attached below > $ gcc -o localetest localetest.c > $ ./localetest fr_FR > changed to: (null) > current LC_ALl: C > current LC_CTYPE: C > $ gcc -o xlocaletest -DX_LOCALE -I/usr/X11R6/include localetest.c >

[OT] Re: seg-vios from gcc program at execv() on Windows XP

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > (BTW ping and dig utilities would be nice!) > > FWIW, XP (and 2k) come with "`cygpath -S`/ping.exe" and > "`cygpath -S`/nslookup.exe". There were also some threads on porting ping > to Cygwin -- search the list archives. I know this is heading off topic... I like t

CVS cygserver compile errors w/gcc 3.4.3

My own, compiled from CVS: gcc (GCC) 3.4.3 20040928 (prerelease) ../../../../cygwin/winsup/cygserver/sysv_sem.cc:179: error: `__offsetof__' was not declared in this scope ../../../../cygwin/winsup/cygserver/sysv_sem.cc: In function `void seminit()': ../../../../cygwin/winsup/cygserver/sysv_sem.cc:

Re: [PATCH] cygrunsrv --recovery

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 29 18:31, Rainer Hochreiter wrote: > > the attached patch implements the options -r or --recovery to set service > > failure actions. allowed actions are 'none', 'boot' or 'restar'. > > not implemented are actions for running commands on failed

Re: [PATCH] cygrunsrv --recovery

On Sep 30 12:06, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > And when you resubmit, please use "diff -u" instead of "diff -c" -- the > patch is much more readable that way. ACK. > One immediate change I noticed was that the description parameter migrated > from calls

Re: CVS cygserver compile errors w/gcc 3.4.3

On Sep 30 10:57, Brian Ford wrote: > My own, compiled from CVS: > gcc (GCC) 3.4.3 20040928 (prerelease) > > ../../../../cygwin/winsup/cygserver/sysv_sem.cc:179: error: `__offsetof__' > was not declared in this scope > ../../../../cygwin/winsup/cygserver/sysv_sem.cc: In function `void > seminit()':

parse errors using setup

Hallo, The setup.exe stopped working properly from one day to the other (literally). Now I get parse error (null) line 7449:syntax error, unexpected STRING (null) line 7449:unrecognized line 7449 (do you have the latest setup ?) (null) line 7449:unrecognized line 7449 (do you have the latest setu

libtool convenience libs problem

I don't where to direct libtool cygwin specific questions to, so I try it here. I have an already libtoolized library, which should produce a DLL, where several subdirs are just "convenience libs". $ pinfo libtool > Node: Static libraries Such a convenience lib (a bastard between a real shared an

Re: libtool convenience libs problem

sorry for repating to myself. But others had the same concerns this week http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2004-09/msg00124.html And I'm also not convinvced that the given answer is practical. "The static lib uses probably non-PIC code so it cannot be linked in. Convenience libs should be

"find" - core dump on faulty arg

Unintentionally I used %H in the 'find -printf' format string and ended up with a core dump. I'm not entirely sure what %H is supposed to print; (as it seems to me; nothing, when used this way) man find/-printf format codes; %H Command line argument under which file was found. .

RE: cp to flash drive very slow

you wrote: > Thanks for responding, Gary. > >> Regardless, <3.7Mb/second seems like something's wrong somewhere. >> Are you running USB2.0 hub-to-device? > > I dunno. I'm not very knowledgable about hardware esp. USB. How > would I tell? > > dar Sorry for butting in... I'd say it should've re

Re: Problems on Itanium: Found the Cause, What's Next?

Hi, Corinna Vinschen, you wrote That's a good question. I'd translate this as "we have tested it and verified that the problem exists", but I wouldn't bet on this. After all I'm also not a native speaker. Yes, it seems you got them right. Today I've received the following message: BEGIN OF MSG Hel

RE: cp to flash drive very slow

Well, yes. The flash drive is a Sandisk Cruzer Mini which is USB 2.0 with fallback to 1.1. The computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 which claims eight USB 2.0 connectiors. Running Windows XP. I don't think caching is the difference. I was able to unzip the .zip file right after xcopy had copied i

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gv-3.5.8-2

Hi A new version of 'gv' has been uploaded to a server near you. DESCRIPTION: A PostScript and PDF viewer for X using 3d Athena Widgets CYGWIN NEWS: o Changed gv so that is calls out to gs-x11 (which is a symbolic link to /usr/X11R6/bin/gs) to quiet the cygwin mai

Re: Setup.hint for base-passwd is incorrect (setup.exe question)

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 02:04:56AM -0500, Doug Wyatt wrote: >I've just investigated an anomaly with the base-passwd package, >which turns out to be an incorrect setup.hint file in the repository. > >repository base-passwd directories contain > >base-passwd-2.0-1.tar.bz2 30-Nov-2003 07:16

Re: Problems on Itanium: Found the Cause, What's Next?

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:11:45PM +0400, Alex Alexandrov wrote: >Hi, Corinna Vinschen, you wrote > >>That's a good question. I'd translate this as "we have tested it >>and verified that the problem exists", but I wouldn't bet on this. >>After all I'm also not a native speaker. > >Yes, it seems yo

Re: cygwin locale broken? (was: Re: gnome 2.8.0 and external dependencies)

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 05:36:28PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >Hi Yang, > >I switched this thread over to the main list. > >> Just try the small test program attached below > >> $ gcc -o localetest localetest.c >> $ ./localetest fr_FR >> changed to: (null) >> current LC_ALl: C >> current LC_CTYP

Re: parse errors using setup

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 06:24:46PM +0200, Marco Bruschi wrote: >Hallo, >The setup.exe stopped working properly from one day to the other >(literally). >Now I get > >parse error >(null) line 7449:syntax error, unexpected STRING >(null) line 7449:unrecognized line 7449 (do you have the latest setup

Re: parse errors using setup

You mean in the setup.ini or the setup.bz2 ? In the setup.ini: 7446: ### 7447: # KDE-3 internationalisation 7448: ### 7449: @ kde3-i18n-af 7450: category: KDE3-i18n 7451: requires: kdelibs-3 7452: version: 3.1

Re: Crontab issue

At 12:53 AM 9/30/2004, you wrote: >On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 14:29:16 -0400, Larry Hall wrote: > >> Access to network shares seems to come up allot in the context of Cygwin >> services. Maybe it would be good to add something to the FAQ on this. >> What do you think Joshua? > >See how this does: > > S

Re: parse errors using setup

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:13:54PM +0200, Marco Bruschi wrote: >You mean in the setup.ini or the setup.bz2 ? > >In the setup.ini: > >7446: ### >7447: # KDE-3 internationalisation >7448: ### >7449: @ kde3-i18n-a

Re: cygserver won't start (FAQ alert)

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:43:26 -0400 (EDT), Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > Umm, a couple of minor nits. First off, I think mentioning the option of > re-running setup.exe and selecting "Install For All Users" would be > helpful to those who don't like rando

RE: cp to flash drive very slow

you ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on : > Well, yes. The flash drive is a Sandisk Cruzer Mini which is USB 2.0 > with fallback to 1.1. The computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 which > claims eight USB 2.0 connectiors. Running Windows XP. Right, then we know. ;-) > I don't think caching is the diffe

Re: Setup.hint for base-passwd is incorrect (setup.exe question)

> On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 02:04:56AM -0500, Doug Wyatt wrote: >>I've just investigated an anomaly with the base-passwd package, >>which turns out to be an incorrect setup.hint file in the repository. >> >>repository base-passwd directories contain >> >>base-passwd-2.0-1.tar.bz2 30-Nov-2003 07

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Re: Excessive CPU load (cygrunsrv.exe, tail.exe, etc)

I do not believe that I am using Process Explorer. Today, after contemplating my problem for a while, I noticed some pertinent details that I would like to share: This CPU load overload can reliably be triggered by Enemy Territory. Guaranteed, every time I run Enemy Territory, a cygwin process

Re: parse errors using setup

Any idea on how uniquely identify the setup.ini file effectively used by setup.exe? Thanks Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:13:54PM +0200, Marco Bruschi wrote: You mean in the setup.ini or the setup.bz2 ? In the setup.ini: 7446: ###

Re: parse errors using setup

Hi, maybe the problem is that in my downloading site (kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/install) they changed the setup.ini today (30 september at 6:41). On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:13:54PM +0200, Marco Bruschi wrote: > >You mean in the setup.ini or t

Re: parse errors using setup

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 11:52:16PM +0200, Marco Bruschi wrote: >Hi, maybe the problem is that in my downloading site >(kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/install) they changed the setup.ini today >(30 september at 6:41). Possibly. Until you rule that out, it doesn't sound like this is a setup.exe problem

RE: Excessive CPU load (cygrunsrv.exe, tail.exe, etc)

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Steve B > Sent: 30 September 2004 22:00 > I do not believe that I am using Process Explorer. > Well, it wasn't cygrunsrv.exe that was crashing > immediately after its kill. Immediately after I kill > cygrunsrv.exe it was UmxCfg.exe t

group name problem

Hi, This cygwin stuff is pretty slick! I'm hitting one snag, though, as I am trying to setup sshd for remote access by limited users. I've made a user "dnr" which is a member of the group "Limited SSHD users" (gid 1006). After mkpasswd -l and mkgroup -l'ing, I've manually set the gid of user dn

Re: Excessive CPU load (cygrunsrv.exe, tail.exe, etc)

Steve B wrote: I do not believe that I am using Process Explorer. So then it's apparently not required that Process Explorer be running to trigger this process. This CPU load overload can reliably be triggered by Enemy Territory. Guaranteed, every time I run Enemy Territory, a cygwin process wil

RE: cp to flash drive very slow

> Well, yes. The flash drive is a Sandisk Cruzer Mini which is > USB 2.0 with fallback to 1.1. The computer is a Dell > Dimension 4600 which claims eight USB 2.0 connectiors. > Running Windows XP. > Ok, like Hannu said, it's a USB 2.0 connection then, as long as you don't have any USB 1.1 h

Re: group name problem

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:16:46PM +, Jacob Kitzman wrote: > Hi, > > This cygwin stuff is pretty slick! I'm hitting one snag, though, as I am trying > to setup sshd for remote access by limited users. > > I've made a user "dnr" which is a member of the group "Limited SSHD users" (gid > 1006)

Re: Cygwin df -l option has wrong sense?

On 30 Sep, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > This is a problem with how fileutils tests for drives being local. And, > it has been reported before (with a patch to fix it) -- see the thread > starting at . > Igor -# ifdef __CYGWIN__ -# defi

Re: cygwin locale broken? (was: Re: gnome 2.8.0 and external dependencies)

Hi, Gerrit On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:36:28 +0200, Gerrit P. Haase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Yang, > > I switched this thread over to the main list. > > If there is no one fixing it then it will stay as it is, why is cygwin > locale broken, what is broken, how to fix it? I don't want to patch

Re: seg-vios from gcc program at execv() on Windows XP

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > Note that the code is _rock_solid_ on Linux/Unix/Mac OSX, and on all > > earlier versions of Windows we've ever tried it on. We've _never_ seen it > > seg-vio before. > > Please provide a complete (hopefully simple) testcase, along with the > co

A good way to test if Cygwin isn't installed?

I just wanted to run an idea past the list. I want to write a shell script to test if Cygwin has been installed on the machine running the shell script. I do this by running a shell (from a network install of Cygwin if necessary). If Cygwin is installed on the local machine, then "cygpath -w /"

Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Per the Cygwin FAQ (http://cygwin.com/faq.html): "If you are looking for the version number for the whole Cygwin release, there is none. Each package in the Cygwin release has its own version. The packages in Cygwin are continually improving, thanks to the efforts of ne

Mirror site goodness

I've made some improvements to my md5cygchk script, to solve the problem of knowing when to trust our local mirrors. Basically, we have a "stable" mirror - tried and tested, and known to be complete and good. And we have a "latest" mirror, which is updated nightly via rsync from a single mirror s

Re: Cygserver 100% CPU (was: References to both cygwin1.dll and msvcrt.dl

--- Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 30 00:12, Patrick Samson wrote: > > I built the DLL another way, and now have: > > $ cygcheck ./dp40.dll > > .\dp40.dll > > D:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll < > > C:\WINNT\System32\ADVAPI32.DLL > > C:\WINNT\System32\ntdll.dll > > C:\W

Re: [ITP] libgpg-error-1.0-2

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Hi Lapo, > > > Is a review really needed if the package is based on Gerrit's work? > > It's HIM that corrected my last packages actually ;-) > > Nobody is perfect! > > Nobody Hi, Nobody, Did you switch to the main list as a sign of your [im]perfectio