Re: Problems with cygwin in Windows 10

2015-07-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 21 23:13, Robert McBroom wrote: > > Having problems with the X interface in Windows 10 (currently build 10240). > /bin/startxwin fails with the symptoms in the attached file xwin.txt. The > output from cygcheck -cv is also attached. What am I missing? > [...] > granp@WIN-xx / > $ ls -la > t

Re: stow-2.2.0-1 modules installs to [...]/site_perl/5.10 in 2.0.4 x86

2015-07-22 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Andrew, > > please re-build the package and split out the Perl part into perl-Stow, > which should install into vendor_perl. Alternatively, it may be > possible to build without those and make a separate perl-Stow package > that references CPAN. OK, done. I'll upload a new package build short

[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.2.0-0.2

2015-07-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I released a new TEST version of Cygwin. The version number is 2.2.0-0.2. This test release needs some more good old-fashioned testing. While the new features in this release are only interesting to developers again, there's an intrusive under-the-hood change which

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.2.0-0.2

2015-07-22 Thread Eliot Moss
On 7/22/2015 11:14 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: NEW: sigsetjmp and siglongjmp were only implemented as macros so far. POSIX requires functions longjmp and siglongjmp to exist. 2.2.0-0.2 adds sigsetjmp and siglongjmp functions. 2.2.0 comes with four new functions: getcontext, setco

db_home setting in nsswitch.conf is ignored.

2015-07-22 Thread Shaun Martin
I'm trying to set the HOME directory of Cygwin to a local folder. My computer is on a network and the Windows HOME variable is being mapped to a network drive. I'm not able to change this. And for some reason, this causes the default HOME directory for my Cygwin terminal to be set as either "/c

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.2.0-0.2

2015-07-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 22 11:33, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 7/22/2015 11:14 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > NEW: sigsetjmp and siglongjmp were only implemented as macros so far. > > POSIX requires functions longjmp and siglongjmp to exist. 2.2.0-0.2 > > adds sigsetjmp and siglongjmp functions. > > > > 2.2

Re: db_home setting in nsswitch.conf is ignored.

2015-07-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 22 15:33, Shaun Martin wrote: > I'm trying to set the HOME directory of Cygwin to a local folder. My computer > is on a network and the Windows HOME variable is being mapped to a network > drive. I'm not able to change this. And for some reason, this causes the > default HOME directory fo

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.2.0-0.2

2015-07-22 Thread Eliot Moss
On 7/22/2015 12:06 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 22 11:33, Eliot Moss wrote: On 7/22/2015 11:14 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: NEW: sigsetjmp and siglongjmp were only implemented as macros so far. POSIX requires functions longjmp and siglongjmp to exist. 2.2.0-0.2 adds sigsetjmp a

Re: Cygwin ssh and Windows authentication

2015-07-22 Thread Jarek
On 2015-07-21 22:36, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Jarek! So why are they not needed as your comment doesn't really explain that Read 1.7.35 changelog. In short, username resolution was completely reworked, thanks to Corinna, and Cygwin now directly address domain controllers for it. OK so

Re: db_home setting in nsswitch.conf is ignored.

2015-07-22 Thread Shaun Martin
> Is HOME set in the Windows environment already? If so, this > might interact with the setting in /etc/nsswitch.conf, which *only* > works for entries taken from the passwd DB (getpwnam, getpwuid calls). > > How do you start mintty? It should be started with a single parameter, > a dash, e.g.:

Cygwin unable to resolve hostnames

2015-07-22 Thread Matthew Fountain
I'm not sure when this started, but recently Cygwin has been unable to resolve (certain) hostnames. Example: wget github.com --2015-07-22 15:17:04-- http://github.com/ Resolving github.com (github.com)... failed: Non-recoverable failure in name resolution. wget: unable to resolve host address ‘g

Re: Cygwin unable to resolve hostnames

2015-07-22 Thread René Berber
On 7/22/2015 3:53 PM, Matthew Fountain wrote: > I'm not sure when this started, but recently Cygwin has been unable to > resolve (certain) hostnames. > > Example: > wget github.com > --2015-07-22 15:17:04-- http://github.com/ > Resolving github.com (github.com)... failed: Non-recoverable failure

Re: Cygwin ssh and Windows authentication

2015-07-22 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Jarek! > So why are they not needed as your comment doesn't really explain that Read 1.7.35 changelog. In short, username resolution was completely reworked, thanks to Corinna, and Cygwin now directly address domain controllers for it. >>> OK so it addresses DCs

Re: db_home setting in nsswitch.conf is ignored.

2015-07-22 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Shaun Martin! >> Is HOME set in the Windows environment already? If so, this >> might interact with the setting in /etc/nsswitch.conf, which *only* >> works for entries taken from the passwd DB (getpwnam, getpwuid calls). >> >> How do you start mintty? It should be started with a sin