Cygwin install crashes & reboots without leaving a trace

2014-09-25 Thread Arend Rensink
I've been a happy cygwin user for at least a decade, but starting this week I can't seem to update any more, and in fact my installation is broken entirely. When I run (a freshly downloaded) setup-x86.exe, at some point during install the installer quits, the .exe-file is removed, and sometimes m

Re: Cygwin install crashes & reboots without leaving a trace

2014-09-25 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:46:57AM +0200, Arend Rensink wrote: > I've been a happy cygwin user for at least a decade, but starting this week I > can't seem to update any more, and in fact my installation is broken entirely. > > When I run (a freshly downloaded) setup-x86.exe, at some point during

Re: gdb 7.8 consistently fails to run executable - error is

2014-09-25 Thread Dominik Straßer
Hi, I am running into the same issue. My path is stripped down as far as possible: $ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin But still no cigar. $ gdb /local/night/fizz_build_Win7_with_icons/libraries/compilelib/unittest/exec/cygwin64/MINGW/normal_mt_so/unittest.exe GNU gdb (GDB) 7.8 Copyright (C) 201

Re: Cygwin install crashes & reboots without leaving a trace

2014-09-25 Thread Arend Rensink
On 25-9-2014 12:18, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: I would be looking very hard at whatever virus protection you have. The fact that the setup-*.exe is being removed makes me think some third party program is killing the installer and deleting the executable; that's just not something the installer will

Re: Cygwin install crashes & reboots without leaving a trace

2014-09-25 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Arend Rensink! >> I would be looking very hard at whatever virus protection you have. >> The fact that the setup-*.exe is being removed makes me think some >> third party program is killing the installer and deleting the >> executable; that's just not something the installer will do. >

Re: Cygwin install crashes & reboots without leaving a trace

2014-09-25 Thread Christian Franke
Arend Rensink wrote: On 25-9-2014 12:18, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: I would be looking very hard at whatever virus protection you have. The fact that the setup-*.exe is being removed makes me think some third party program is killing the installer and deleting the executable; that's just not somethi

Re: Cygwin install crashes & reboots without leaving a trace

2014-09-25 Thread Bob
You might try renaming setup-x86.exe to something less scary like cygwin-myfriend.exe, and using --no-admin option if not already. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cy

Re: Cygwin install crashes & reboots without leaving a trace

2014-09-25 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 25/09/2014 14:18, Arend Rensink wrote: On 25-9-2014 12:18, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: Unfortunately, the virus software configuration is set by university policy, I can't touch it myself :-( (though I am of course also trying to go that route). you can also open a false positive reports with t

Re: Cygwin install crashes & reboots without leaving a trace

2014-09-25 Thread Arend Rensink
On 25-9-2014 15:13, Andrey Repin wrote: Kaspersky "Antivirus" is notoriously known for protecting the users from their computers. Also, ".Generic" is a sign that the detection was based on heuristics. Good guess, it's Kaspersky. On 25-9-2014 16:10, Bob wrote: You might try renaming setup-x8

Re: connect() hangs on a listen()ing AF_UNIX socket

2014-09-25 Thread Christian Franke
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 26 21:03, Christian Franke wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Sounds like a nice idea. We should try that. I'm just not sure how much time I have left to work on this before my vaca next month. Do you have fun to look into that? We have waited so long for postfix,

Re: Cygwin install crashes & reboots without leaving a trace

2014-09-25 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Arend Rensink! >> Kaspersky "Antivirus" is notoriously known for protecting the users from >> their computers. Also, ".Generic" is a sign that the detection was based on >> heuristics. > Good guess, it's Kaspersky. Was not a guess at all. The designation clearly pointed to KAV. > On

Re: Cygwin install crashes & reboots without leaving a trace

2014-09-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Arend Rensink writes: >> 25-9-2014 10:54:05 Quarantined legal software that can be used by >> criminals to damage your computer or personal data >> PDM.Worm.P2P.generic C:\CYGWIN\SETUP-X86.EXE > > (I don't suppose there is a worm, but you might be interested in knowing > about this false posi

Re: Cygwin install crashes & reboots without leaving a trace

2014-09-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Christian Franke writes: > According to VirusTotal, some "Bkav" scanner reports a false positive > for both current setup.exe versions: > https://www.virustotal.com/file/ea2a2322ccce15af2b68b36f0543f263529422baf41480d4f96b320a55289d71/analysis/1411478277/ > https://www.virustotal.com/file/7eb582a3b

cygcheck -p indicate obsoleteness?

2014-09-25 Thread Vince Rice
tl;dr version: can cygcheck possibly be improved (I know, PTC :) ) to show that a package is obsolete, instead of just showing the “current” version? Longer explanation of where the request came from: I’ve had an alias for c=clearw.exe for quite some time. I did an update today to get the bash

No mirrors for setup

2014-09-25 Thread Richard Gribble
Greetings. Trying to run the 32 bit version of setup (2.850, or 2.774) does not populate the list of mirror sites. I am behind a firewall and have a proxy, but have not had problems previously. I should note that it has been some time since I updated my installations, but I'm not sure if th

Re: No mirrors for setup

2014-09-25 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Richard Gribble! > Trying to run the 32 bit version of setup (2.850, or 2.774) does not > populate the list of mirror sites. I am behind a firewall and have a > proxy, but have not had problems previously. I should note that it has > been some time since I updated my installations,

Re: /usr/bin/install doesn't install files from Makefile

2014-09-25 Thread Michael Osipov
Am 2014-09-23 um 16:11 schrieb Marco Atzeri: On 22/09/2014 23:14, Michael Osipov wrote: Am 2014-09-17 um 12:16 schrieb Marco Atzeri: On 17/09/2014 10:56, Michael Osipov wrote: Am 2014-09-16 um 19:59 schrieb Csaba Raduly: Hi Michael, Unfortunately, it is not: ... (cd /home/mosipov/asciidoc

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-25 Thread Paul . Domaskis
Eliot Moss cs.umass.edu> writes: >On 9/24/2014 6:19 PM, Paul.Domaskis wrote: >>Andrey Repin yandex.ru> writes: >>>Paul.Domaskis wrote: >> Can anyone suggest how the bash-completion man page is acccessed, and >> what M-/ means? > > M is for "meta", as in the meta escape key functionality in Emacs.

Re: AW: ld crashes with segmentation fault when linking with libmpir.a

2014-09-25 Thread Daniel R. Grayson
I've reported the bug to binutils. Thank you for your advice, all. On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Daniel R. Grayson wrote: > Thanks! I have just checked, but mpir is compiled without -flto. Indeed, > their > configure script appends -fno-lto to the command line if the user try to use > it.

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-25 Thread Eliot Moss
On 9/25/2014 4:36 PM, Paul.Domaskis wrote: Eliot Moss cs.umass.edu> writes: On 9/24/2014 6:19 PM, Paul.Domaskis wrote: Andrey Repin yandex.ru> writes: Paul.Domaskis wrote: Can anyone suggest how the bash-completion man page is acccessed, and what M-/ means? From googling, the meta key is