how to "re-enable" perl after 5.32 install; how to reinstall all perl-mods?

2021-06-01 Thread L A Walsh
This is getting really icky... updated cygwin and it reinstalled a new version of perl, but when I try to run any perl progs nothing runs (see below). So I'd like to try to reinstall all the cygwin perl-mods that I have installed. How can I select "all" among the perl mods? and install? I can

Re: how to "re-enable" perl after 5.32 install; how to reinstall all perl-mods?

2021-06-02 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/01 21:32, Brian Inglis wrote: $ grep ^perl- /etc/setup/installed.db | cut -d' ' -f1 | paste -d, -s perl-Algorithm-Diff,perl-Authen-SASL,perl-Authen-SASL-XS,... ...,perl-namespace-autoclean,perl-namespace-clean $ wget -NP /tmp/ https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe $ cygstart /tmp/setup-x

Re: how to "re-enable" perl after 5.32 install; how to reinstall all perl-mods?

2021-06-02 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/01 22:47, ASSI wrote: L A Walsh writes: updated cygwin and it reinstalled a new version of perl, but when I try to run any perl progs nothing runs (see below). So I'd like to try to reinstall all the cygwin perl-mods that I have installed. You didn't say how y

Re: Python for Windows reports wrong local time when run under Cygwin on Europe/Moscow TZ

2021-06-08 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/06 23:59, Mike Kaganski via Cygwin wrote: Hello, Running Cygwin 3.1.7-1 on Windows 10 Version 21H1 (OS Build 19043.985), I have this issue: when I start Cygwin's Python, I have correct time reported: But running Python for Windows (it doesn't matter which, specifically for the te

Re: After cygwin 3.2 update windows terminal input is sometimes broken

2021-06-08 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/06 22:08, Tomas Tumelionis via Cygwin wrote: Been using windows terminal preview (this is still actual with current latest version 1.9) and after cygwin 3.2 update windows terminal input is broken after: * splitting pane * moving terminal window to other window * sleeping pc This means

Re: Python for Windows reports wrong local time when run under Cygwin on Europe/Moscow TZ

2021-06-08 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/08 05:28, Mike Kaganski wrote: No, I report a problem that a native program runs incorrectly *under Cygwin*, because Cygwin is indeed part of the picture. --- The problem is in the MS-Win term program. If you report it to them and tell them it only misbehaves when you have

Re: After cygwin 3.2 update windows terminal input is sometimes broken

2021-06-08 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/08 05:41, Tomas Tumelionis wrote: Sorry for the vague description. --- I get accused of being too vague all the time. Glad you narrowed down the problem. Good job! Have fun! -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Do

Re: Python for Windows reports wrong local time when run under Cygwin on Europe/Moscow TZ

2021-06-08 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/08 06:30, Mike Kaganski wrote: First of all - please stop telling me that I required support. I didn't demand anything, and was asking *in the hope*, but without any wrong expectations that anyone owes anything here. --- Have you ever heard the statement "asking is poli

Re: Python for Windows reports wrong local time when run under Cygwin on Europe/Moscow TZ

2021-06-08 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/08 07:10, Mike Kaganski wrote: so any "answers" like yours "why do you ask here" are off-topic. --- But what most people dont' see -- I didn't say you *shouldn't* post here, I asked why when the evidence suggested the problem was python reading TZ info from 2 sources -- like config

odd prob for cygwin 'dd' from a character device on network disk

2021-06-09 Thread L A Walsh
I've been using a character device on linux in my home directory named 'zero' that is a copy of the 'zero' device in /dev: crwxrwxrw- 1 1, 5 Jun 15 2015 zero to do read benchmarks using 'dd' (and write benchmarks using a file named 'null' thats a copy of /dev/null). I run it "occasionally", but

Re: odd prob for cygwin 'dd' from a character device on network disk

2021-06-10 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/09 19:23, Duncan Roe wrote: nfs / nodev? I'm not sure what you mean or are asking. I'm not using nfs...but cygwin. The file 'zero' is in the same dir as the file 'null'. I usually read 'zero' and write to 'null, though for 1-way testing, I read from file 'zero' on the remo

Re: odd prob for cygwin 'dd' from a character device on network disk

2021-06-14 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/11 18:32, Duncan Roe wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 08:20:30PM -0700, L A Walsh wrote: On 2021/06/09 19:23, Duncan Roe wrote: nfs / nodev? I'm not sure what you mean or are asking. I'm not using nfs...but cygwin. The file 'zero' is in the same d

Problem or question on Cygwin XWin

2021-06-14 Thread L A Walsh
There is a listen parameter on XWin, but the man page doesn't say what format to use for the listen parameter. I want to have it listen for tcp from a local net: 192.168.3.0. I started having problems with my cygwin X receiving network connections via TCP, locally (like 192.168.3.1 => 192.168.3.

bug in cygwin tar reading unexpected input(s)...

2021-06-14 Thread L A Walsh
Tar'ing up a windows dir (ProgData) had some unexected failures: Several of the sort: tar: Dbgview: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such file or directory tar: Desktops: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such file or directory tar: DiskView: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such file or director

Re: Problem or question on Cygwin XWin

2021-06-14 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/14 17:30, Duncan Roe wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 04:41:42PM -0700, L A Walsh wrote: There is a listen parameter on XWin, but the man page doesn't say what format to use for the listen parameter. I want to have it listen for tcp from a local net: 192.168.3.0. I started h

Re: bug in cygwin tar reading unexpected input(s)...

2021-06-15 Thread L A Walsh
eared to be a misspelled filename, as I'm not even sure how to recreate that file, but attempting to dump xattrs on a symlink seems like a pretty straight forward symptom/testcase. What more details do you think would be pertinent? Thanks! -Linda Cheers! Russell VT On Mon, Jun 14, 2021

Re: X11 blinking cursor in text window like 'gvim' - only halts if moved-over another X11-win

2021-06-16 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/04/08 04:19, Andrey Repin wrote: It has it in every version starting Windows 95/NT4. @Linda: try http://joelpurra.com/Projects/X-Mouse_Controls/ --- Just had the occasion to need it, since had to re-inst W7. Unfortunately, it immediately dumps core. Very odd. Dependency walker tries

Re: bug in cygwin tar reading unexpected input(s)...

2021-06-19 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/16 10:22, Achim Gratz wrote: L A Walsh writes: Tar'ing up a windows dir (ProgData) had some unexected failures of the sort: tar: Dbgview: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such file or director, Where the item listed (Dbgview, ...) is a windows symlink like: 2019/02/07

Re: bug in cygwin tar reading unexpected input(s)...

2021-06-19 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/16 10:22, Achim Gratz wrote: L A Walsh writes: Tar'ing up a windows dir (ProgData) had some unexected failures of the sort: tar: Dbgview: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such file or director, Where the item listed (Dbgview, ...) is a windows symlink like: 2019/02/07

Re: bug in cygwin tar reading unexpected input(s)...

2021-07-03 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/16 10:22, Achim Gratz wrote: L A Walsh writes: 2019/02/07 22:53 DiskView [SI\DiskView.exe] and stems from the use of the --xattrs switch. Hmm. Looks like some of the symlink / attrs content is taking a route that doesn't deal correctly with '\&

objects created in a dir w/cygwin mangled perms; inherit no-access

2021-07-03 Thread L A Walsh
Trying to track down exact conditions for a simpler testcase for a weird error message in tar and ran across this... in directory 'SI': /progd/Microsoft/../Tools/Sysinternals> ll -ad SI drwxrwxr-x+ 1 0 Jul 3 16:28 SI/ w/umask: umask 0002 I make dir 'newdir': mkdir newdir and ls -lgG sh

Re: objects created in a dir w/cygwin mangled perms; inherit no-access

2021-07-06 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/07/04 07:20, Andrey Repin wrote: The "+" at the end indicates presence of extended permissions. --- Ya, that's what I was referring to when I wrote about having 5 deny records at the front, though that didn't necessarily stand out. ⍨ Aside from the extended permissions, tho

Re: objects created in a dir w/cygwin mangled perms; inherit no-access

2021-07-15 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/07/07 11:43, Andrey Repin wrote: What is "progd" ? Did you mount some directory into Cygwin tree? Sorta, actually the cygtree mounted at 'C:\'. Ugh. Been there twenty years ago. Had a lot of unexpected issues and finally opted out of it. --- If you have something unexpec

Re: Symlink issue?

2021-08-23 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/08/21 17:55, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2021-08-21 18:40, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > > Am 21.08.2021 um 23:59 schrieb Ken Brown via Cygwin: >> On 8/21/2021 4:15 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> Please consider the following Cygwin session: >>> $ cd ~ >

Re: objects created in a dir w/cygwin mangled perms; inherit no-access

2021-08-23 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/07/15 01:23, Sam Edge via Cygwin wrote: On 15/07/2021 08:02, L A Walsh wrote: On 2021/07/07 11:43, Andrey Repin wrote: Sorta, actually the cygtree mounted at 'C:\'. Ugh. Been there twenty years ago. Had a lot of unexpected issues and finally opted out of it.

windows explorer links in cygwin /bin

2021-09-20 Thread L A Walsh
I have about 99 ".lnk" files in my /bin dir. What are these for? They appear to be explorer links to various things, to list some files w/o the .lnk extension: ( /bin/ls -T 0 -x -w 96 |sed -r 's/\.lnk//g' ) Console2 a2ping a5toa4adhocfilelist amstex

Re: Can't ssh to cygwin after switching sign-in to Windows Hello PIN

2021-09-20 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/09/15 12:53, Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin wrote: frankly, it seems like a bug, and if Microsoft succeeds in moving more people to using PINs for login, it will surely begin to bite others... Isn't the idea of using the PIN login to get rid of the use (and the ability) to use pas

Re: Prompt wrapping lines problems

2021-10-08 Thread L A Walsh
Did you try the the solution suggested? I.e. What do you see if you type: echo "$TERM" How did you start your bash prompt? Also might be useful to send the output of: stty -a On 2021/10/06 03:35, jp via Cygwin wrote: Hello,I have the problem described in this page :https://superu

Re: Prompt wrapping lines problems

2021-10-09 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/10/09 00:38, jp wrote: I'm very happy that you respond me. Yes, I've tried the solution suggested but I didn't succeed, but it doesn't matter now, because I've installed and old version of cygwin. Theese are the result of the command, but it will not help you because it comes fr

Re: Phasing out old Windows versions and 32 bit support

2021-10-27 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/10/26 13:55, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: Hi folks, The upcoming version 3.3.0 is the last version officially supporting Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. The next major release 3.4.0 will be released in 2022 and will be the last one officially supporting Windows 7, Windo

Re: Cygwin/X with Win[10]-^ display scaling corrupting font display of typed characters - Issue [identified]-????

2022-01-21 Thread L A Walsh
On 2022/01/19 17:01, Ken Whitesell wrote: On 1/19/2022 2:28 PM, Jon Turney wrote: On 19/01/2022 00:02, Ken Whitesell wrote: On 1/17/2022 1:29 PM, Ken Whitesell wrote: After more research and experimentation, it appears to be related to one of xorg-server, xorg-server-common, or

Re: Cygwin/X display scaling corrupting font display of typed characters;

2022-01-23 Thread L A Walsh
On 2022/01/21 10:26, L A Walsh wrote: ... To summarize, I am not sure that the original issue has anything to do with 2nd monitor, nor any changes in the Xorg-sources. In _my_ case it was a matter of how the Xserver was started, and what dpi settings it was started with. If server was started

Re: Renaming (with 'mv') very large files is SLOW

2022-02-02 Thread L A Walsh
On 2022/01/31 13:36, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: Could it be that the first 'mv' triggered an anti-virus read of the file since perhaps it detects it as a new/changed file? But if so, would 'mv' (under Task Manager) be showing the 100+ MB/s disk activity? That definitely seems plausible; the

Re: Removing ^X in paths

2022-02-02 Thread L A Walsh
On 2022/02/02 12:40, Dennis Heimbigner wrote: It appears that windows now supports the UTF-8 codepage. It has since early 2000's. I light of this, it seems time to change cygwin so it no longer adds those control-x (^X) characters in e.g. path names. ^x is ASCII. Cygwin doesn't insert

Re: ls -C broken

2022-02-02 Thread L A Walsh
On 2022/01/28 07:46, Thomas Wolff wrote: If I redirect output of `ls -C` (file / pipe), it used to produce well-formatted output in columns. Suddenly it produces garbage formatting instead. As `ls` itself is not new, maybe it's some library that breaks behaviour? Or even pty code?? Works on Cyg

Re: Removing ^X in paths

2022-02-02 Thread L A Walsh
On 2022/02/02 20:12, Dennis Heimbigner wrote: I am using 64bit. And it has nothing to do misreading characters. The ^X is described in this document: https://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html, Wow, I've never seen such a pathname. What's an example of a filename tha

re: inotify cannot be used, reverting to polling: Too many open files

2022-03-19 Thread L A Walsh
New message in tail: Anyone else seen this type of message lately:? tail -f .*log|wc tail: inotify cannot be used, reverting to polling: Too many open files It doesn't seem to be a big issue, but thought I should mention it... -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FA

checking cyg version (was Re: GNU make losing jobserver tokens)

2022-03-22 Thread L A Walsh
On 2022/03/21 08:09, Ken Brown wrote: For starters, is your Cygwin installation up to date? Cygwin's internal implementation of pipes was overhauled starting with cygwin-3.3.0. How does one check the version of cygwin? I've updated cygwin files this year, but if I use cygcheck -V, I

mirror corruption, or non-backward compatible library change?

2023-03-21 Thread L A Walsh via Cygwin
Connected to kernel.org as I normally do, but got this: Internal Error: gcrypt library error 1 unsupported pk alg. [OK] Then another popup: Mirror Error: Setup.ini signature http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86_64/setup.bz2.sig from http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/ failed t

[SOLVED] Re: mirror corruption, or non-backward compatible library change?

2023-03-21 Thread L A Walsh via Cygwin
On 2023/03/21 09:13, L A Walsh via Cygwin wrote: Connected to kernel.org as I normally do, but got this: Internal Error: gcrypt library error 1 unsupported pk alg. --- Using most recent version of setup.exe from cygwin.com solved the problem. Sorry for bogon. -- Problem reports

Re: Can not stat file with utf char U+F020

2023-04-18 Thread L A Walsh via Cygwin
I'm a bit confused as to what char you are trying to access/use, as U+F020 is in the Private Use area (PUA) Since it's in the PUA, it seems its meaning could differ by application/OS/User, no? I.e. have no set definition I mean you can use it in Cygwin to represent some character not usually

Re: Map home dir drive (H:) to /home/myuser/ ?

2023-07-29 Thread L A Walsh via Cygwin
On 2023/07/28 21:24, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote: Good morning! Does Cygwin have a way to map a (NFS) home dir drive (H:) to /home/myuser/, without resorting to POSIX-style softlinks ([1]) ? Example: 1. Home dir mounted on drive H: via NFS 2. How do I now map H: to /home/myuser/ ? For

Re: Most git executables are hard links to git.exe?

2023-07-29 Thread L A Walsh via Cygwin
On 2023/07/22 10:35, Jim Garrison via Cygwin wrote: On 07/22/23 10:33, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: On Fri, 21 Jul 2023 at 22:54, Jim Garrison via Cygwin wrote: On 07/21/23 14:52, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2023-07-21 14:59, Jim Garrison via Cygwin wrote: Git comes with over 100

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