Re: text cursor is not being positioned

2010-03-24 Thread Andy Koppe
John Lewis: > My apologies for > the new e-mail, I have subscribed to the mail list so that I can reply > properly in the future. Great, much better without the privacy guff. > This is a fresh install, with no modifications (I haven't even run mkpasswd > yet). > > I start bash with the desktop ic

Re: text cursor is not being positioned

2010-03-24 Thread jal
Andy: Problem solved. Thank you so much for your help. Very much appreciated. I blew away the cygwin installation and started again from scratch. Now it works perfectly. I took the laptop home, away from the corporate network environment which wouldn't let me use gmail. I've turned off th

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.2-1

2010-03-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, we're proud to present the next Cygwin release 1.7.2. This release contains some changes, some new functionality, and a good amount of bugfixes. == NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE N

Re: Cygwin 1.7.1 breaks git on netapp shared drives

2010-03-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 23 16:37, Chris Idou wrote: > > > After a heck of lot of screwing around, I got this mount point stuff working. > Now when I create files under cygwin they have the same permissions profile > as they do when I create them under windows. > > BUT... > > git doesn't work still. It fails w

Re: /cygdrive permissions problem [failing duplicity backup]

2010-03-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 23 17:41, Jan-Aage Frydenb?-Bruvoll wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > Would you have any suggestions on what I could try to get past this > sticking point? The new 1.7.2 DLL should fix your original problem, but as far as the weird output of getfacl is concerned, you would have to debug this. With

Re: /cygdrive permissions problem [failing duplicity backup]

2010-03-24 Thread Jan-Aage Frydenbø-Bruvoll
On 24/03/2010 09:17, Corinna Vinschen wrote: The new 1.7.2 DLL should fix your original problem, but as far as the weird output of getfacl is concerned, you would have to debug this. With a debugger and all that. I don't know any other way to find out why that happens. Ok - on the outskirt

Re: /cygdrive permissions problem [failing duplicity backup]

2010-03-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 24 09:32, Jan-Aage Frydenb?-Bruvoll wrote: > On 24/03/2010 09:17, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >The new 1.7.2 DLL should fix your original problem, but as far as the > >weird output of getfacl is concerned, you would have to debug this. > >With a debugger and all that. I don't know any other w

Re: /cygdrive permissions problem [failing duplicity backup]

2010-03-24 Thread Jan-Aage Frydenbø-Bruvoll
On 24/03/2010 09:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Start with testing 1.7.2. Great, I'll start there. Thanks very much for your assistance so far, by the way! Best regards Jan -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: request add my mirror to mirror list

2010-03-24 Thread Hilman Fathurrahman
> Hello! > This is all well and good. But this is the wrong address to discuss > these matters. On this page: > http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html you will find instructions on how to go > about doing exactly as you have requested. > > - > Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com > "This signature fo

Re: request add my mirror to mirror list

2010-03-24 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2010-03-24 10:05Z, Hilman Fathurrahman wrote: >> >> This is all well and good. But this is the wrong address to discuss >> these matters. On this page: >> http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html you will find instructions on how to go >> about doing exactly as you have requested. > > i know this is wron

Very strange things happen

2010-03-24 Thread DEWI - N. Zacharias
Hi All, To read the content of a registry key I use : my $ww = IO::File->new("< /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/shbox/freepdfxp/fpDir"); my $Reg_FreePdf_Path = <$ww>; $ww->close(); It works but a subsequent call system("cd /cydrive/c/whatever") crashes with a core dump. The st

RE: Cygwin problem make Linux c++ app in windows

2010-03-24 Thread Don Porges
-Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of crmpteltd Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 1:28 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Cygwin problem make Linux c++ app in windows Hi all, I am a new user of Cygwin, seeking advice on a make prob

Re: /cygdrive permissions problem [failing duplicity backup]

2010-03-24 Thread Jan-Aage Frydenbø-Bruvoll
Hello again, FYI, installed 1.7.2 - no changes in behaviour spotted so far, at all. On 24/03/2010 09:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: If ls shows the right result $ ls -ld /cygdrive dr-xr-xr-x 8 you your_group 0 2006-12-01 01:00 /cygdrive I have my own permutation here: Wed Mar 24 14:31

Re: /cygdrive permissions problem [failing duplicity backup]

2010-03-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 24 14:33, Jan-Aage Frydenb?-Bruvoll wrote: > Hello again, > > FYI, installed 1.7.2 - no changes in behaviour spotted so far, at all. > > On 24/03/2010 09:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >If ls shows the right result > > $ ls -ld /cygdrive > > dr-xr-xr-x 8 you your_group 0 2006-12-01 01:0

mudflap in cygwin 1.7.1?

2010-03-24 Thread Mckitterick, John B
Is the gcc option -fmudflap operative in gcc 4.3.4 in Cygwin 1.7.1? I downloaded that version of gcc, but the necessary include files were missing (and the libraries too). Nosing around in package list in setup did not lead me to any obvious packages that I should add. Could someone point me to the

Re: /cygdrive permissions problem [failing duplicity backup]

2010-03-24 Thread Jan-Aage Frydenbø-Bruvoll
On 24/03/2010 14:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote: You don't have 1.7.2 installed. Or, you don't *use* 1.7.2. The above shows clearly that there's still a 1.7.1 running under the hood. You have to find out, why. Is there an old process still running on the machine? Do you have another place with a 1

Re: Cygwin problem make Linux c++ app in windows

2010-03-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:31:29AM -0400, Don Porges wrote: > > >-Original Message- >From: cygwin-owner... >Of crmpteltd >Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 1:28 AM >To: cygwin >Subject: Cygwin problem make Linux c++ app in windows Please don't forward email, complete with headers, to the Cy

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: openssl-0.9.8n-1, openssl-devel-0.9.8n-1

2010-03-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of OpenSSL to 0.9.8n-1. This also includes the openssl-devel packages. This is an upstream security release. The Cygwin release is build from the vanilla sources, no additional patches. Official release message: ==

1.7.2-1: Problems with regtool and cyglsa.

2010-03-24 Thread David Rothenberger
I'm having two problems with cygwin-1.7.2-1: * regtool get returns "Error (2): The system cannot find the file specified." * cyglsa appears to break by system I'm using Windows XP SP3. I upgraded to cygwin-1.7.2-1 and then ran cyglsa-config, which failed because of this problem: % regtool ge

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.2-1

2010-03-24 Thread Andy Koppe
Corinna Vinschen: > Hi Cygwin friends and users, > > we're proud to present the next Cygwin release 1.7.2. It's a hippo! Congratulations! Also, three cheers for 1.7.1, which held up rather well for a .1 release with lots of big changes. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.

Re: allocate heap space shell startup failure

2010-03-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:23:56PM -0500, Brian Wilson wrote: >I have a Windows XP (SP3+updates) machine (DELL XPS, 3.2 GHz, 4Gb) running >McAfee AV and Smart Ram from Advanced System Care by IOBIT.com.I've >attached my cygcheck output. > >Sometimes (about 50% of the time) when I try to start

Re: 1.7.2-1: Problems with regtool and cyglsa.

2010-03-24 Thread Andy Koppe
David Rothenberger: > I'm having two problems with cygwin-1.7.2-1: >  * regtool get returns "Error (2): The system cannot find the file >   specified." >  * cyglsa appears to break by system > > I'm using Windows XP SP3. I upgraded to cygwin-1.7.2-1 and then ran > cyglsa-config, which failed becaus

RE: inconsistent slowness listing C:

2010-03-24 Thread compraxis
Adam Mlodzinski wrote: > >> From: Adam Mlodzinski >> >> The problem is that some commands sometimes take a very long time to >> complete. > > I found the problem. It was a mapped drive which is either responding very > slowly, or whose target share has disappeared. Clicking on the drive in >

Re: 1.7.2-1: Problems with regtool and cyglsa.

2010-03-24 Thread David Rothenberger
On 3/24/2010 10:37 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: > David Rothenberger: >> I'm having two problems with cygwin-1.7.2-1: >> * regtool get returns "Error (2): The system cannot find the file >> specified." >> * cyglsa appears to break by system >> >> I'm using Windows XP SP3. I upgraded to cygwin-1.7.2-1

modified cygwin.bat for rxvt - window does not stay up in 1.7.2

2010-03-24 Thread j8raa6t5a9
I updated to 1.7.2 and the cygwin.bat I modified ages ago to run rxvt does not work anymore. The window pops up and quickly disappears (I'm using Windows XP). cygwin.bat looks like: @echo off C: chdir C:\cygwin\bin rxvt -e bash --login -i I don't see any info in /var/log. Maybe there is a way

Re: mudflap in cygwin 1.7.1?

2010-03-24 Thread Dave Korn
On 24/03/2010 15:04, Mckitterick, John B wrote: > Is the gcc option -fmudflap operative in gcc 4.3.4 in Cygwin 1.7.1? No, sorry; mudflap is not supported in Cygwin. It would require some (possibly substantial, I don't know) porting to make it work. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports:

Re: allocate heap space shell startup failure

2010-03-24 Thread Dave Korn
On 24/03/2010 17:36, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:23:56PM -0500, Brian Wilson wrote: >> I have [ ... ] Smart Ram >> Sometimes (about 50% of the time) when I try to start the Cygwin shell >> (bash), by double clicking the Cygwin icon, I get an error like the >> attached e

Rsync on 1.7.2-1 - FIXED!

2010-03-24 Thread Marco Moreno
On Mar 19, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Marco Moreno wrote: > I too am experiencing rsync 3.0.7-1 hanging with ssh on 1.7.1-1. > > I tried building rsync without socketpair as others suggested, but it did not > make a difference. (I presume I built it correctly since --version reports > "no socketpairs"

Re: modified cygwin.bat for rxvt - window does not stay up in 1.7.2

2010-03-24 Thread Andy Koppe
j8raa6t5a9: > I updated to 1.7.2 and the cygwin.bat I modified ages ago to run rxvt does > not work anymore.  The window pops up and quickly disappears (I'm using > Windows XP). > > cygwin.bat looks like: > @echo off > C: > chdir C:\cygwin\bin > rxvt -e bash --login -i Does changing 'bash' to '/

Re: 1.7.2-1: Problems with regtool and cyglsa.

2010-03-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 24 10:33, David Rothenberger wrote: > I'm having two problems with cygwin-1.7.2-1: > * regtool get returns "Error (2): The system cannot find the file >specified." > * cyglsa appears to break by system > > I'm using Windows XP SP3. I upgraded to cygwin-1.7.2-1 and then ran > cyglsa-co

Re: modified cygwin.bat for rxvt - window does not stay up in 1.7.2

2010-03-24 Thread Andy Koppe
Andy Koppe: > j8raa6t5a9: >> I updated to 1.7.2 and the cygwin.bat I modified ages ago to run rxvt does >> not work anymore.  The window pops up and quickly disappears (I'm using >> Windows XP). >> >> cygwin.bat looks like: >> @echo off >> C: >> chdir C:\cygwin\bin >> rxvt -e bash --login -i > >

Re: modified cygwin.bat for rxvt - window does not stay up in 1.7.2

2010-03-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 24 20:16, Andy Koppe wrote: > Andy Koppe: > > j8raa6t5a9: > >> I updated to 1.7.2 and the cygwin.bat I modified ages ago to run rxvt does > >> not work anymore.  The window pops up and quickly disappears (I'm using > >> Windows XP). > >> > >> cygwin.bat looks like: > >> @echo off > >> C: >

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.2-2

2010-03-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I just release 1.7.2-2. This is a bugfix release which fixes exactly one bug more than 1.7.2-2, an allocation problem in regtool. The most annoying effect of this bug is that it breaks the cyglsa-config script and, in turn, the content of a *very* important registry k

Re: 1.7.2-1: Problems with regtool and cyglsa.

2010-03-24 Thread tony
Comments inline. Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > On Mar 24 10:33, David Rothenberger wrote: > > I'm having two problems with cygwin-1.7.2-1: > > * regtool get returns "Error (2): The system cannot find the file > >specified." > > * cyglsa appears to break by system > > > > I'm u

Re: 1.7.2-1: Problems with regtool and cyglsa.

2010-03-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 24 20:33, tony wrote: > Comments inline. > > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > > > > On Mar 24 10:33, David Rothenberger wrote: > > > I'm having two problems with cygwin-1.7.2-1: > > > * regtool get returns "Error (2): The system cannot find the file > > >specified." > > > *

Re: 1.7.2-1: Problems with regtool and cyglsa.

2010-03-24 Thread David Rothenberger
On 3/24/2010 1:04 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 24 10:33, David Rothenberger wrote: >> After reboot, the system completely misbehaved. It took a long time >> to get to the login prompt. Login was very slow. Sound was >> disabled. Network drives were not connected. The task bar never >> appea

ssh-host-config hangs

2010-03-24 Thread Funky
I'm trying to execute ssh-host-config from within a Cygwin shell and it hangs indefinitely after I enter the value of CYGWIN for the daemon. Help? bash-3.2$ ssh-host-config *** Query: Overwrite existing /etc/ssh_config file? (yes/no) yes *** Info: Creating default /etc/ssh_config file *** Query

Re: ssh-host-config hangs

2010-03-24 Thread Homeless Mail
Running in debug, it is hanging on the following. I'm an admin user on Windows XP SP3 32-bit. *** STACKTRACE: main[557]->install_service[334]->csih_check_user[1701] returning with 0 + '[' -n ntsec ']' + cygwin_env=(-e "CYGWIN=${csih_cygenv}") + '[' -z '' ']' + cygrunsrv -I sshd -d 'CYGWIN ssh

Re: ssh-host-config hangs

2010-03-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/24/2010 9:28 PM, Homeless Mail wrote: Running in debug, it is hanging on the following. I'm an admin user on Windows XP SP3 32-bit. *** STACKTRACE: main[557]->install_service[334]->csih_check_user[1701] returning with 0 + '[' -n ntsec ']' + cygwin_env=(-e "CYGWIN=${csih_cygenv}") + '[' -z

Re: ssh-host-config hangs

2010-03-24 Thread Funky
Here are the diagnostics: $ cygcheck -s -v -r Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Wed Mar 24 20:47:49 2010 Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 Running in Terminal Service session Path: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\b

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {terminfo/terminfo-extra/termcap}-5.7_20091114-14

2010-03-24 Thread Charles Wilson
The terminfo packages contain the terminal information database that enables proper operation of ncurses-based applications. The termcap package provides an obsolete, backwards-compatible format that contains similar information, for a few selected terminal types. This is a feature enhancement rel

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {terminfo0/terminfo0-extra}-5.5_20061104-12

2010-03-24 Thread Charles Wilson
The terminfo0 packages contain the terminal information database that enables proper operation of ncurses-based applications. This package, which can be installed alongside the regular 'terminfo' ones, provides that database using the organizational structure expected by libncurses8 and earlier (ne

Re: ssh-host-config hangs

2010-03-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/24/2010 9:51 PM, Funky wrote: Here are the diagnostics: We really prefer these *attached* and *not appended*. That's why the problem reporting page asks for it that way. $ cygcheck -s -v -r Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Wed Mar 24 20:47:49 2010 Windows XP Profe