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1.5.22: Error from anything using the cygwin dll

2006-11-27 Thread Mikkel Erup
I get a message box with the following error trying to run any cygwin program: The instruction at "0x6100365f" referenced memory at "0x006ada90". The memory could not be "written". id.exe, bash.exe etc. All of them produce the error. Somtimes, like 1 out of 50 or less a program will succeed. For

Re: 1.5.22: Error from anything using the cygwin dll

2006-11-27 Thread Hugh McMaster
Hi Mikkel, I too have had this problem, as has another Cygwin user on this mailing list. I am now attempting to install Cygwin once more to check whether this problem still exists. If it does, it could be the result of a recent change to a package. I will let you know how things go. Hugh On

Re: 1.5.22: Error from anything using the cygwin dll

2006-11-27 Thread Hugh McMaster
Hi Mikkel, I have tried to install Cygwin, with no luck. The installation did not even finish the final configuration before resulting in errors. By this, I mean 'bash.exe' and 'id.exe' were terminated, resulting in a Microsoft Error Reporting service window appearing. It would appear that ther

Re: 1.5.22: Error from anything using the cygwin dll

2006-11-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Mikkel Erup wrote: I get a message box with the following error trying to run any cygwin program: The instruction at "0x6100365f" referenced memory at "0x006ada90". The memory could not be "written". id.exe, bash.exe etc. All of them produce the error. Somtimes, like 1 out of 50 or less a prog

Re: 1.5.22: Error from anything using the cygwin dll

2006-11-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Hugh McMaster wrote: Hi Mikkel, I have tried to install Cygwin, with no luck. The installation did not even finish the final configuration before resulting in errors. By this, I mean 'bash.exe' and 'id.exe' were terminated, resulting in a Microsoft Error Reporting service window appearing. It

Re: 1.5.22: Error from anything using the cygwin dll

2006-11-27 Thread Mikkel Erup
--- "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mikkel Erup wrote: > > I get a message box with the following error trying to run > > any cygwin program: > > > > The instruction at "0x6100365f" referenced memory at > > "0x006ada90". > > The memory could not be "written". > > > > id.exe,

cygport bug

2006-11-27 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had to make this patch in order to use perl_postinst from the git cygport instructions. 2006-11-27 Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * perl.cygclass (perl_postinst): Don't assume PERL_VENDORLIB exists. - -- Life is short - so eat de

Re: 1.5.22: Error from anything using the cygwin dll

2006-11-27 Thread Mikkel Erup
--- Mikkel Erup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Mikkel Erup wrote: > > > I get a message box with the following error trying to run > > > any cygwin program: > > > > > > The instruction at "0x6100365f" referenced memory at > > > "0x0

Re: cygport bug

2006-11-27 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 11/27/2006 7:13 AM: > I had to make this patch in order to use perl_postinst from the git > cygport instructions. > > 2006-11-27 Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * perl.cygclass (perl_postinst): Don't assume PERL_

RE: 1.5.22: Error from anything using the cygwin dll

2006-11-27 Thread Dave Korn
On 27 November 2006 14:06, Mikkel Erup wrote: > Making sh.exe a copy of bash.exe and running the installer to > reinstall produces the same error for bash.exe, ash.exe, sed.exe, > sh.exe, rm.exe, cmp.exe and a some others (The instruction at > "0x6100365f" referenced memory at "0x006ada90". The m

Installation problem(?) for grace: HOW DO I GET old xorgs?

2006-11-27 Thread moka
Looks like initially a path problem, plus an X-problem I found out that at least one of the reasons grace and gracebat would not run from the DOS command line was that the directory for cygX11R6.dll was not in the path. I fixed that and also put the actual path for gracebat . c:cygwinusrsharegrac

Re: 1.5.22: Error from anything using the cygwin dll

2006-11-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 02:36:45PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >On 27 November 2006 14:06, Mikkel Erup wrote: > > >> Making sh.exe a copy of bash.exe and running the installer to >> reinstall produces the same error for bash.exe, ash.exe, sed.exe, >> sh.exe, rm.exe, cmp.exe and a some others (The instr

Re: 1.5.22: Error from anything using the cygwin dll

2006-11-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 02:36:45PM -, Dave Korn wrote: On 27 November 2006 14:06, Mikkel Erup wrote: Making sh.exe a copy of bash.exe and running the installer to reinstall produces the same error for bash.exe, ash.exe, sed.exe, sh.exe, rm.exe, cmp.exe and a some

RE: 1.5.22: Error from anything using the cygwin dll

2006-11-27 Thread Dave Korn
On 27 November 2006 16:53, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > I'm with Dave and Mikkel in believing that the difference between safe mode > and not is significant. I'm betting on virus scanners/firewalls or some > network driver. Or Logitech. Never let us forget Logitech. Never let us forget

Re: Cygwin-installed /etc/profile supplied appears to be DOS-type text file

2006-11-27 Thread Rex Godby
Thanks. Indeed, I conclude that I must have edited /etc/profile long, long ago (before I understood that this is not advisable), and saved it in DOS-style format. I see in various discussions that bash has recently been made intolerant of DOS-style line endings, explaining my observation. (I

Re: 1.5.22: Error from anything using the cygwin dll

2006-11-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 11:52:55AM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 02:36:45PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >>>On 27 November 2006 14:06, Mikkel Erup wrote: >>> >>> Making sh.exe a copy of bash.exe and running the installer to reinstall produ

Re: 1.5.22: Error from anything using the cygwin dll

2006-11-27 Thread Brian Dessent
Christopher Faylor wrote: > The address in question is in cygwin's cygthread handling code. > Historically, this has been affected by things like scanners/firewalls > and special drivers, so this is a good thought. The clincher for me is when he said it works in safe mode without networking, but

Re: Installation problem(?) for grace: HOW DO I GET old xorgs?

2006-11-27 Thread Volker Quetschke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Looks like initially a path problem, plus an X-problem > > I found out that at least one of the reasons grace and gracebat would not run > from the DOS command line Oh! You never said anything about cmd.exe. Naturally cygwin links only work in a cygwin shell. bash, ash,

Files with Win32 "hidden" attribute

2006-11-27 Thread John Smith
The archive contains repeated messages to the effect that Cygwin has no concept of "hidden" files (except for dot-files), totally ignores the "hidden" attribute, etc. However, while I can create, read, add to (using ">>") and delete files with this attribute set, I cannot overwrite them. For examp

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: openldap-2.3.30-1/libopenldap2_3_0-2.3.30-1/openldap-devel-2.3.30-1

2006-11-27 Thread Svend Sorensen
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Re: Files with Win32 "hidden" attribute

2006-11-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 27 18:23, John Smith wrote: > The archive contains repeated messages to the effect that Cygwin has > no concept of "hidden" files (except for dot-files), totally ignores > the "hidden" attribute, etc. > > However, while I can create, read, add to (using ">>") and delete > files with this at

1.5.22-1: Error by using man (ap)

2006-11-27 Thread Alexander Palm
Hi! Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 $ cygcheck -c | grep -E "man|cygwin" apache2-manual 2.2.2-1 OK cygwin 1.5.22-1 OK cygwin-doc 1.4-4OK cygwin-x-doc 1.0.4-1 OK he

Re: 1.5.22: Error from anything using the cygwin dll

2006-11-27 Thread Mikkel Erup
>DaveK wrote: >You wouldn't by any chance be using any kind of firewall or >internet >security packages, would you? Something by Norton/McAffee, >perhaps? I am using outpost pro but that is not started in safe mode with network where Cygwin produces the errors described. Cygwin only works for me

Re: NTFS fragmentation redux

2006-11-27 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Saturday 25 November 2006 10:12 pm, Linda Walsh wrote: > Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > This is curious - how do you find out fragmentation of ext3 file ? I do > > not know of a utility to tell me that. > > --- > There's a debugfs for ext2/ext3 that allows you to dump all of the > segments

mno-cygwin dll woes

2006-11-27 Thread Hugo Duncan
Hi, I am looking for some help on the recommended method of getting gcc -mno-cygwin to link to msvcr80, without linking to msvcrt. At the moment, even when I specify -lmsvcr80 the resulting binary has a dependency on msvcrt.dll Looking at the specs file, -mno-cygwin always links with -lmsv

Re: 1.5.22: Error from anything using the cygwin dll

2006-11-27 Thread Mikkel Erup
--- Mikkel Erup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >DaveK wrote: > >You wouldn't by any chance be using any kind of firewall or > >internet > >security packages, would you? Something by Norton/McAffee, > >perhaps? > > I am using outpost pro but that is not started in safe mode > with > network where

Re: NTFS fragmentation redux

2006-11-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 02:25:00PM -0500, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: >On Saturday 25 November 2006 10:12 pm, Linda Walsh wrote: >> Vladimir Dergachev wrote: >> > This is curious - how do you find out fragmentation of ext3 file ? I do >> > not know of a utility to tell me that. >> >> --- >> Ther

[OT] RE: mno-cygwin dll woes

2006-11-27 Thread Danny Smith
> > Looking at the specs file, -mno-cygwin always links with > -lmsvcrt, so > short of editting the specs file, how is it possible to link > only with > msvcr80? > If you had posted this to the mingw list someone might have suggested: cp -f /lib/mingw/libmsvcr80.a /tmp/libmsvcrt.a gcc -mno

Re: [OT] RE: mno-cygwin dll woes

2006-11-27 Thread Hugo Duncan
Danny, > If you had posted this to the mingw list someone might have suggested: Sorry, cygwin specs file looked like a cygwin problem to me :-) > cp -f /lib/mingw/libmsvcr80.a /tmp/libmsvcrt.a > gcc -mno-cygwin -L/tmp foo.c Thanks for the suggestion. Still involves an extra build step to make

Problem with /usr/sbin/sendmail ==> /usr/bin/exim

2006-11-27 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
Some programs, most notably cron, expect /usr/sbin/sendmail to point to mailer program such as exim or ssmtp. Due to a buggy "ln -s" (now fixed in coreutils-6.6-2, thanks to Eric Blake), a link /usr/sbin/sendmail.exe was sometimes created to point to /usr/bin/exim.exe, which does not exist. If th

Re: Problem with /usr/sbin/sendmail ==> /usr/bin/exim

2006-11-27 Thread René Berber
Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > Some programs, most notably cron, expect /usr/sbin/sendmail > to point to mailer program such as exim or ssmtp. > > Due to a buggy "ln -s" (now fixed in coreutils-6.6-2, thanks to Eric Blake), > a link /usr/sbin/sendmail.exe was sometimes created to point to > /usr/bin/

Re: NTFS fragmentation under Cygwin & not NT/XP; redux

2006-11-27 Thread Linda Walsh
Christopher Faylor wrote: I was hoping that this discussion about ext3 would die a natural death but it looks like I have to make the observation that this really has nothing to do with Cygwin --- Don't know what "cygwin" you are talking about, but the one I download from cygwin.com seems t

Re: cygport bug

2006-11-27 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Actually, that isn't all that is needed, since git creates > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Git/.packlist, and that .packlist > also needs the same treatment. Maybe I need to figure out how to make git > use PERL_VENDORLIB, instead of patc

Re: Problem with /usr/sbin/sendmail ==> /usr/bin/exim

2006-11-27 Thread René Berber
Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >>It doesn't quite work, the link created is still "sendmail.exe -> >>/usr/bin/exim.exe". >> >>But this works: `ln -s /usr/bin/exim. /usr/sbin/sendmail` > > Thanks, but did you update to coreutils-6.6-2 ? > Otherwise I hope Eric Blake will see your mail! No, I still have

Re: 1.5.22: Error from anything using the cygwin dll

2006-11-27 Thread Hugh McMaster
Hi everyone, After doing some analysis of this issue, I have determined the problem to most likely be Agnitum Outpost Firewall. I am not disputing your findings (Mikkel, anyone else), but all of the evidence that I have learned point to this. In fact, I installed the trial version 4.0 of Outpos

Re: Installation problem(?) for grace: HOW DO I GET old xorgs?

2006-11-27 Thread moka
Αρχικό μήνυμα από Volker Quetschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Looks like initially a path problem, plus an X-problem > > > > I found out that at least one of the reasons grace and gracebat would not > run > > from the DOS command line > Oh! You never said anything about

Updated (and new) cygport patches

2006-11-27 Thread Charles Wilson
Four different patchsets. They should all apply independently with only minor fuzz. I know you're too busy at the moment, Yaakov (congrats!), to review these patches -- I just wanted to update them to latest cygport CVS so they don't bitrot. Short summary: (1) Updated mixed download protocol