Re: Setup failures during mirrored install

On 22 May, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > I'd be willing to try a debug snapshot. I haven't used gdb to debug > > threads though. > > > > I assume I run ps and use the PID, not the WINPID to attach to? > > What are the commands to list threads, and attach to a thread? > > > > Or do you

Download from internet = 1Mb?!

We're happily mirroring (internally on our network), one of the public mirror sites, for local installs. It's working well. We do a nightly rsync. The mirror is 1.2Gb, and I wanted to just write a copy of the install set to take home. So my idea was to choose "download from internet", and burn

Network shares under ssh: some can, some can't

I noticed some discussion on the list a while back, where people reported that if they logged in remotely to their Windows PC via slogin, they didn't have access to their network shares. I'd never worried too much about this, since I always just manually mapped the drives. Today I also modified o

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

On 26 Mar, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Let me describe a problem scenerio (real world). > > You have a bunch of people in your domain who rely on Cygwin but who do > not always keep up with the latest. Indeed often they are way behind. > These people do not bother to add Cygwin's bin direct

Re: Download from internet = 1Mb?!

On 18 Jun, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The mirror is 1.2Gb, and I wanted to just write a copy of the install > set to take home. So my idea was to choose "download from internet", > and burn that. > > Trouble is, that option results in a 1Mb download (I think all it does > is download s

Mail to cygwin generating subscription requests

I've sent a few emails to the list today. It seems like each time I do, I get an email from either Yahoo! Groups or kde-transl-request saying that someone has attempted to subscribe me to those lists. I don't believe I want to, and I was wondering if there is some mis-configuration of a mailing l

Re: Network shares under ssh: some can, some can't

On 27 Jun, Max Bowsher wrote: > > Me: > > > > : [EMAIL PROTECTED] .../luke; slogin doyle > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > > Last login: Fri Jun 27 10:10:13 2003 from nevin.research.canon.com.au > ... > > > > Other person: > > > > linn> ssh riada > > Warni

Re: Download from internet = 1Mb?!

On 27 Jun, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > PS. I _think_ this is as simple as you can get. If anybody notices a > redundant step or unnecessary complication, please say. That's all quite clear, Fergus, many thanks. I'll also check out the site that Max mentioned, in case I can learn still more fro

Binaries via Line or by rebuilding?

On 25 Mar, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Re: cant run binaries in cygwin > Unless you mean "there's no binary but the Linux binary", in which case > Cygwin will probably not be of much use to you, but you might be > interested in something like Line (). It looks lik

Ideas re problem reporting

On 22 May, Sam Edge wrote: > In addition, you are likely to get little help here with any problem > unless you installed cygwin via the "official" setup.exe that you can > get via the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://www.cygwin.com/ > web site. If this is a common occurrence (instal

Permission problems with recent Cygwin

On some recent installs of Cygwin (from a snapshot of a mirror site about a week ago), we've started getting some odd problems. Re-running setup pointing it at a fresh setup and mirror does not fix the problems (naturally enough). A few key files in /etc (including /etc/profile!) have owner set t

Re: Ideas re problem reporting

On 16 Jul, Robert Collins wrote: > However, a registry entry won't correct this: only the user knows > exactly what tool they used, unless we go down some insane DRM style > path - and I won't be taking setup down that path. You mean, even if setup just recorded whether it had just completed

Re: Windows home path

On 16 Jul, Larry Hall wrote: > Where exactly do you see this path being used? Let me butt in with a bit of info, FWIW. A few months back I had to fix our local post-install script to quote the $HOME variable because on some installs it was using a directory with spaces for HOME: I think it was

Re: Windows home path

On 16 Jul, Larry Hall wrote: > > Anyone know why the latest cygwin uses a path with spaces in it > > (C:\Documents and Settings\username) for its home when it doesn't support > > spaces in paths? A little more investigation suggests that if you haven't run mkpasswd to create an /etc/passwd t

Re: Permission problems with recent Cygwin

(Sorry this took so long; it's taken me days to find the hours required to investigate.) I've got some more info, below, and have also read through all the permissions threads on the cygwin mailing list I could find, and to read about half the ntsec threads over the last year or so. I don't think

How to tell if ntsec is on or off

On 23 Jul, I wrote: > I was going to qualify this with `when ntsec is defined in CYGWIN' It's not easy to find out if ntsec is turned on, is it? When I wrote the above, I was thinking "ntsec turned on" means $CYGWIN includes the word "ntsec". But I think I've just realised that isn't true, is

spaces in group names

I notice that Windows allows spaces in group names, unlike Unix, so the output of the "groups" command can't be processed reliably under Windows. Any suggestions? : /home/luke ; id uid=11021(luke) gid=10513(Domain Users) groups=12919(adaytum),10513(Domain Users),13876(MS_VisualStudio),13761(Zone

Re: how to make cygwin run under shells other than bash

On 24 Jul, Damien Suttle wrote: > Hi,> my favorite shell is tcsh, but cygwin always starts up in bash. > I tried playing with the cygwin.bat file, but i couldn't get it > to work. does anyone know how to reconfigure cygwin to start up > in other shells? $ mkshortcut -D -A -n "tcshw" -a '-l'

Who's who of packagers?

Re: Available for test: cygwin-1.5.1-1 On 28 Jul, Christopher Faylor wrote: > If you are maintaining a cygwin package, then you should be subscribed > to the cygwin-apps mailing list, and you should be following the > discussions there about rebuilding for the cygwin 1.5.x series. If you >

Re: Who's who of packagers?

On 30 Jul, Elfyn McBratney replied to: > > How does one check who the maintainer of a package is; e.g. to make > > sure it is not oneself? > > One doesn't. Fine. [WM stuff] > Well, it's not you. :-) Unless you have taken over the reigns from > Harold. No, no, no! :-) luke -- Unsubscrib

Tip: making extra Cygwin shortcuts

It wasn't clear to me from reading the man page for mkshortcut that there was a way to create other Cygwin shortcuts alongside the default Start->Program Files->Cygwin ones. So, FYI, when you specify the name with the -n option, you can name `directories' in the normal way. E.g.: mkshort

Re: Re: how to make cygwin run under shells other than bash

On 31 Jul, Damien Suttle wrote: > So I changed the shell invocation line in cygwin.bat from: > > bash --login -i > > to this: > > tcsh -i - > > Then, i get the following output: > true: Command not found. > true: Command not found. > true: Command not found. > true: Command not fou

touch run from DOS: time wrong

I just discovered, by writing a touch.bat file that runs cygwin's touch.exe, that if you specify a date and time, the time set on the file is 1 hour earlier than it should be. touch.exe run from within Cygwin sets the time correctly. I.e. %CYGDRIVE%\cygwin\bin\touch 0830091502 xxx sets xxx to hav

vi won't execute - symlink semantics changed?

sra' DATE_FMT = `+' DEVNULL = `/dev/null' DEVTTY = `/dev/tty' DISPLAY = `:0' EDITOR = `vi' EGREP_SILENT = `q' FULLNAME = `Luke Kendall' HOMEDRIVE = `C:' HOMEPATH = `\Documents and Settings\luke' INCLUDE = `c:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\INCLUDE;c:\PROGRA~

Re: vi won't execute - symlink semantics changed?

On 8 Nov, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 04:16:41PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I updated my Cygwin installation to the latest version, yesterday. > > (That included the fresh bash-2.05-7 and binutils.) > > > > Since then, I can't run vi except by either specifying the

cvs problem under cygwin, cvs documentation

Re-sending this since the Cygwin list says any cross-post means you're a spammer. :-( I will now post to the cvs list and warn people not to Reply-All or they may be marked as spammers too. :-( luke -- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: cvs problem unde

Re: cvs problem under cygwin, cvs documentation

Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 12:33:52PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Re-sending this since the Cygwin list says any cross-post means you're > >a spammer. :-( > > You are confused. There is nothing which says that you may not cc another list > when sending email to th

Re: cvs problem under cygwin, cvs documentation

On 16 Mar, Derek Robert Price wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Although we have a moderately good workaround (an old version of cvs > >compiled up), we have a long-standing problem with cvs in Cygwin that > >I'm looking into final

strace cvs stops at /dev/tty read

Does Cygwin's cvs ignore your PATH setting, and directly use the Windows rsh.exe? Behaviour of /usr/bin/cvs seems to indicate it may be so. I can't rename rsh.exe to test this since XP "repairs" rsh.exe. I can't find out which rsh it's running since strace cvs fails: when it asks for a password,

RE: strace cvs stops at /dev/tty read

On 17 Mar, Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS) wrote: > > Does Cygwin's cvs ignore your PATH setting, and directly use the Windows > > rsh.exe? Behaviour of /usr/bin/cvs seems to indicate it may be so. > > Have you tried setting CVS_RSH? > export CVS_RSH=/usr/bin/rsh > may do what you want. I

regtool problem

I'm trying to use regtool to find the locations that software is installed on a system, so as to write some post-install scripts so that scripts like "word" and "excel" work (i.e., build in pathname to executable, or define an MSOFFICE environment variable, or whatever), and a desktop shortcut to

Re: regtool problem

On 7 May, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What I really want, actually, is grepreg, so I can say: > > grepreg word\.exe The reason I want that is, finding the installed path of an executable in something like MS Office, where there are many different versions and which can be in diffe

RE: regtool problem

On 7 May, Mellman Thomas wrote: > The way I do this is export the registry using regedit and then use > reasonable (i.e. text) tools on it. I don't see how to do that in a script - if I run even "regedit /?", it pops up a GUI and requires interaction. Not useful inside an automated script!

Promoting rxvt (non-X11)

Suggestion: include a shortcut for rxvt as well as for Cygwin, as part of setup.exe? rxvt is an excellent replacement for the Windows command window - except that programs like vi seem to be expecting ^H for backspace, whereas the key is actually sending a Del (^?), it seems. The solution seems

Setup-uninstall problems

I was trying to use setup to uninstall some Cygwin components, because the machine was running out of space. So I ran setup, intending to uninstall the TeX components. I expanded the tree view, and in each of the categories in which the TeX bits and pieces appeared (3 places), I selected Uninsta

Re: Promoting rxvt (non-X11)

On 23 Sep, John Vincent wrote: > I hope this is helpful. Sure is, thanks! Though I just discovered that setting -backspacekey to either ^? *or* ^H works equally well. I don't understand that! BTW, does anyone else have the problem that Shift-PgUp will only page back once, then you have to us

Questions about Cygwin packaging

I briefly considered making a proper package for a couple of things for Cygwin, but after reading http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html I realised I didn't know how to provide the required information. The issues were package names, and dependencies. How do you determine package names for the "requir

Re: Questions about Cygwin packaging

On 24 Sep, Nicholas Wourms wrote: [...] > One further note, X11 packages should be ITP'd on the Cygwin/XFree > mailing list rather then cygwin-apps. Thanks for all that good info, Nicholas. I'll have a go. I guess if I did see ways to improve the setup.html description, I could make changes

Mysterious delays in command execution

On a freshly installed and configured Windows XP machine with a fresh install of a recent Cygwin, we noticed that every non-builtin command took about a second to start. The PATH started with /usr/bin:/bin as the first dirs, and then also included much later a symlink to a samba shared script are

Is there a command for creating shortcuts on the desktop?

I've been doing things like creating template files, finding where Cygwin is installed via Cygpath, and modifying the template with sed and copying it to the appropriate user desktop directory. I don't suppose there's an existing command for doing this? luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cy

Re: Is there a command for creating shortcuts on the desktop?

On 25 Sep, Michael A Chase wrote: > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:41:14 +1000 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I've been doing things like creating template files, finding where > > Cygwin is installed via Cygpath, and modifying the template with sed > > and copying it to the appropriate user desk

Setup.exe seems to hang

One of the people here is trying to install Cygwin for the first time ever on his Win2k PC. We update a mirrored copy of Cygwin nightly, and install from that on our local network. The problem he's having is that when getting to the stage of trying to change the installation type from "default" t

Re: Setup.exe seems to hang

On 2 Sep, Robert Collins wrote: > > The problem he's having is that when getting to the stage of trying to > > change the installation type from "default" to "install", the machine > > just goes very busy and doesn't complete (e.g. it was left running > > overnight). > > Try the snapsh

Re: Setup.exe seems to hang

On 2 Sep, Robert Collins wrote: > > I'd still be interested to know what setup is doing at that point. It > > might give us a clue as to why setup's performance varies across such a > > wide range. (If Cygwin was already installed, could we strace > > setup.exe?) > > no - it's not a

Re: Setup.exe seems to hang

On 2 Sep, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hmm. We're using a nightly mirrored copy, but looking at the file's > properties, I see it dates from April 7th, 2003. So grabbing the > snapshot might be a good idea! I just tried the 2.402 snapshot version - looked good to me. The slow steps in

Misleading error message in setup

Here's a small oddity. If you make a mistake in cut and paste when adding a new download site (easy to accidentally include an invisible leading or trailing space, for example, in netscape), then instead of complaining that the URL is wrong, setup complains that it can't find the setuptar.bz2

Re: Misleading error message in setup

On 18 Sep, Robert Collins wrote: > > E.g. we have a local mirror on our intranet: > > http://web/u/mirror/cygwin/ and the user added > > " http://web/u/mirror/cygwin/"; and got an error complaining about not > > being able to find the file /u/mirror/cygwin/setup.tar.bz2. > > Right, and

ssh-keygen and slogin oddity

I'm trying to make ssh ask me for a passphrase when I slogin to another machine, instead of asking me for my password on that machine. With no luck. It always asks me for my password. If I modify /etc/ssh_config to set password authentication to "no", then slogin simply fails without asking me f

RE: Cygwin setup stopped @99%

On 12 Oct, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > Your problem is well known, Yes, we've started having this problem here, since last week. I just wanted to check the mailing list before I tried the obvious fix. So, I can confirm that yes, the cygpath -A -P just hangs, that it can be run manually from

Re: Updated: cygutils-1.1.4-2

On 9 Aug, Charles Wilson wrote: > o mkshortcut supports a new -w/--workingdir option. The man page for mkshortcut needs to be updated to reflect this good new option. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.

Be careful of network drives under /cygdrive

This may seem obvious to everyone, but when doing recursive file operations starting at /, you need to remember that /cygdrive will lead you to performing the file operation across whatever network drives you have mapped. (Just as you would under any Unix system when you mounted drives.) find / -

Re: Updated Cygwin package: bash-2.05b-16

On 23 Oct, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > Version 2.05b-16 of the Bash package is now available for download. > > This is a bugfix release relative to 2.05b-15, and fixes the bug reported > and patched in http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01166.html. Might ash (/bin/sh) suffer

Re: Updated: libungif-4.1.4-1

On 5 Nov, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: > > *** libungif-4.1.4-1 > +++ libungif4-4.1.4-1 (NEW) > > Libungif is a library for manipulating GIF files, without the > patent-encumbered LZW compression code. Are th

An interesting tidbit

Cygwin has certainly grown in leaps and bounds thanks to the hard work of the developers, and all the numerous contributors and porters. I chanced to notice that a download I had from July 2001 was 175MB, a download from March 2005 was 2.5GB! luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/

Re: Updated: suite3270-3.3.4p7-1, c3270-3.3.4p7-1, pr3287-3.3.4p7-1 , s3270-3.3.4p7-1, tcl3270-3.3.4p7-1, x3270-3.3.4p7-1

On 8 Feb, Peter A. Castro wrote: > This is an update for the suite3270 packages based on version 3.3.4p6 > plus patch 07 for c3270, s3270, tcl3270 and x3270 yielding 3.3.4p7 > > suite3270-3.3.4p7-1.tar.bz2 > c3270-3.3.4p7-1.tar.bz2 > pr3287-3.3.4p7-1.tar.bz2 > s3270-3.3.4p7-1.tar.bz2

Cygwin df -l option has wrong sense?

According to df --help, the -l option means to list only local drives. But in practice it seems to do the exact opposite: $ df -k /cygdrive/c/cygwin Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on C:\cygwin 39070048 32015012 7055036 82% / $ df -k

Re: Cygwin df -l option has wrong sense?

On 30 Sep, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > This is a problem with how fileutils tests for drives being local. And, > it has been reported before (with a patch to fix it) -- see the thread > starting at . > Igor -# ifdef __CYGWIN__ -# defi

A good way to test if Cygwin isn't installed?

I just wanted to run an idea past the list. I want to write a shell script to test if Cygwin has been installed on the machine running the shell script. I do this by running a shell (from a network install of Cygwin if necessary). If Cygwin is installed on the local machine, then "cygpath -w /"

Mirror site goodness

not empty. luke - md5cygchk ------ #!/bin/sh # # Check all the md5 signatures for a Cygwin mirror. # # Author: Luke Kendall # CYG_BAD=cygwin-archive-incomplete.txt CYG_GOOD=cygwin-archive-okay.txt ECHO=echo MD5ARG= MIRROR=/u/mirror/cygwin/release MYNA

Shell script ignores $PATH?!

I have written a shell script to drive a Cygwin upgrade or install. It checks that it's not being run from a locally-installed Cygwin. Unfortunately, despite setting PATH to use only a network-installed Cygwin (and not include /bin, /usr/bin etc.), the shell script still somehow decides to invoke

Re: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?

On 4 Oct, Siegfried Heintze wrote: > I notice that Cygwin manipulates the path by prepending " > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:" to the windows PATH > environment variable. > > This is a problem for me because I'm using CVSNT and I need my cvs client to > be /cygdrive/c/P

RE: A good way to test if cygwin isn't installed?

On 3 Oct, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > Having mount.exe and cygwin1.dll in a specific dir and then run "mount -m" > > after "set PATH=." should be the way to go. > > Yes, that was the idea. > Igor Well, I was running this script from a version of Cygwin installed on the network.

Re: Shell script ignores $PATH?!

On 5 Oct, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Unfortunately, despite setting PATH to use only a network-installed > Cygwin (and not include /bin, /usr/bin etc.), the shell script still > somehow decides to invoke /usr/bin/sh. I have two more pieces of info: the shell is started by using /usr/bin

RE: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?

On 5 Oct, Siegfried Heintze wrote: > >Anyway, in your case it should be as simple as this: > > > >PATH="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/cvsnt/bin:$PATH" > > > > Where do I put this statement? .bashrc? You could, but why not put it in ~/.profile so it's read just once by the login shell, an

Re: Shell script ignores $PATH?!

On 5 Oct, Brian Dessent wrote: > If you want to specify what shell is used to run a script you either > need to specify it in the shebang of the script (#!/path/to/shell) or > you need to start that shell explicitly (/path/to/shell > /path/to/script). If you try to execute a script with no

Re: Shell script ignores $PATH?!

On 5 Oct, Christopher Faylor wrote: > #!/usr/bin/env perl > > It's a standard idiom. I didn't know of that. Fantastic, thanks! luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cy

Spurious "You have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on your system."

After installing Cygwin by using a shell script running by executing bash from a network-installed Cygwin, the script fails when it tries to run a post-install script. The error reported is: bash-2.05b$ post-install.sh -which latest -fresh c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe (3208): *** cygheap versio

RE: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?

On 6 Oct, Siegfried Heintze wrote: > I looked in c:\Cygwin\home\Administrator and could not find a .profile file > using emacs. There was a .bash_profile file. Should I create a .profile > file? >Thanks, > Siegfried It's not necessary, unless you might also run other Bourne shell

Misleading warning from mount?

In the example below, mount tells me the directory doesn't exist, yet it does. I can "ls" it, and create files in it, and cat them. I suspect the warning really means that "/" isn't mounted. On a system without Cygwin installed: bash-2.05b$ mount c: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode,no

Re: Spurious "You have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on your syste m."

On 7 Oct, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 02:49:29PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >After installing Cygwin by using a shell script running by executing > >bash from a network-installed Cygwin, the script fails when it tries to > >run a post-install script. The error r

Re: Misleading warning from mount?

On 7 Oct, Christopher Faylor wrote: > You did everything but the one thing that would prove that the warning > message is correct: > > bash-2.05b$ mount > c: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode,noumount) > l: on /cygdrive/l type user (textmode,noumount) > m: on /cygdri

Re: Misleading warning from mount?

On 7 Oct, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > or a similar message. From the perspective of Cygwin's mount, there's > no /tmp directory at the moment you use it to mount c:\temp\mnt\tmp > into it. That's all. In contrast to Unix, that's not breaking the > mount, so you only get a warning. Use mou

Re: Spurious "You have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on your syste m."

On 7 Oct, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, luke.kendall wrote: > > > On 7 Oct, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 02:49:29PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Erghm... We all make mistakes. :-) > > > >After installing Cygwin by using a shell script r

Re: Spurious "You have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on your syste m."

ften? ;-) Apologies, I hadn't understood that the source of the error was me. Unfortunately I think I'm overdue to change over to a new MUA - despite having "Use From Address" set to: "Luke Kendall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] it doesn't seem to do the right thing. So

Re: Spurious "You have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on your syste m."

On 7 Oct, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I've mentioned that mutt does this automatically if there is no user name > associated with an email address. I am not going to go out of my way > to police my email if a person is going to send their mail in a nonstandard > way. > > So you can sa

Re: Spurious "You have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on your syste m."

On 8 Oct, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Now to see if I can find where /etc/profile went, and if no joy, try > again with the modified scripts and new knowledge... No joy. /etc/profile, passwd, and group were simply missing. Even doing a grep for /etc/profile in setup.log and .full showed no e

Re: Spurious "You have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on your syste m."

On 8 Oct, luke.kendall wrote: > > Now to see if I can find where /etc/profile went, and if no joy, try > > again with the modified scripts and new knowledge... > > No joy. /etc/profile, passwd, and group were simply missing. > > Even doing a grep for /etc/profile in setup.log and

How to update after a change of user?

We always choose "Setup for all users" when running Setup, and leave ntsec turned on (that's the default I believe, which seems good), and we normally install on NTFS under XP professional. Can I get some advice on how to handle the following situation? 1) Cygwin is installed by one user (a syste

Re: How to update after a change of user?

On 20 Oct, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Try 'chown'ing to Administrators.SYSTEM (note the "s") instead of > Administrator.SYSTEM (i.e., "chown 544:18"). That way, anyone in the > Administrators group will be able to manipulate the files. You'll need to > carefully exclude ~/.ssh and some oth

setup fails: mount: operation completed successfully

I started a vanilla install on a Dell C400 laptop, running XP. I chose to install to the C drive. I started installing from a 4-month old local stable snapshot, and cancelled Setup when I realised I'd chosen the old mirror. I started installing again, from our local latest snapshot. Note: both Sta

What to do when setup fails?

I recently found another system that Cygwin setup failed on every time. I'm installing from a local mirror for which all the checksums are good. It fails due to mount, apparently. A panel titled "Mount" pops up after the download stage, saying: "The operation completed successfully", and then se

A request for package announcers

Would it be possible to include a description of what the package actually is, in the email announcement? Even if it's very short. Often you can't tell from the package name alone. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/

RE: What to do when setup fails?

On 10 Nov, Dave Korn wrote: >Luke, if setup is failing to create that key, you must be trying to > install > for all users while running as a user with inadequate rights, mustn't you? > The > attached patch would tell you what the actual error code was, if you felt > like > rebuilding

RE: What to do when setup fails?

On 11 Nov, To: Dave Korn wrote: > I'll investigate further, but I think you've cracked my problem. > Thanks, Dave! Certainly, the confusing part was getting an error that stopped setup and which was reported as "mount: the command completed successfully." I've tried again today with Administr

RE: What to do when setup fails?

On 11 Nov, luke wrote: > By the time it had crashed with the above panel, Task Manager was > showing setup of using only 10MB of memory. Yet as soon as I clicked > on OK for the runtime error, the pages were very quickly handed back to > the system and it returned to about 100MB of memory i

RE: What to do when setup fails?

On 11 Nov, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sounds like the first attempted install, with the insufficient > permissions and the "Mount: command completed successfully" might have > left things in a somehow strange state. I no longer think this. > I'll force a system disc check and reboot a

Re: What to do when setup fails?

On 11 Nov, Reini Urban replied to: > > I watched in task manager as setup's memory use climbed from 50MB to > > 127MB over a period of a few minutes. When next I looked nothing had > > visibly changed, except task manager reckoned setup was now using only > > 12MB (again climbing steadily u

Re: setup size prefs (from gmane.os.cygwin.applications)

On 4 Nov, Reini Urban wrote: > Reini Urban wrote: > >>Which window sizes do we want to store? >>I started with one size for all, then I rewrote for one size for each >>propertypage, and now I believe the best would be to store/restore >>only two sizes. >>The big size for the package list and the

Re: Problem with setup

On 11 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote: > Guys, theres a major problem with setup. > According to the error I just got, setup is not > closing any of its files after writing them. > I finally got past xorg, and got up to update_info. > I'll rerun setup to get a cygcheck. I can confirm this. We

Re: Problem with setup

On 17 Nov, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The system starts page faulting and the number of > handles just grows and grows, and eventually setup dies I can add this: > At the crash point, setup.exe has some 600 open handles and 2 Gb of VM. It's > accumulated 2.5 million page faults. luke

Re: Problem with setup

I should also add that after a setup.exe crash at 9:38am after being left running overnight, later attempts to install that day (with the VM size steadily increasing, and setup.exe appearing to "stick" at the stage where it is installing the zip package), that setup.log was not updated by the later

Re: Problem with setup

On 16 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote: > Then I'm not the only one noticing this? No, myself and one other person here have begun noticing it. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://

Re: Problem with setup

On 17 Nov, Max Bowsher wrote: > Luke Kendall wrote: > > I should also add that after a setup.exe crash at 9:38am after being > > left running overnight, later attempts to install that day (with the VM > > size steadily increasing, and setup.exe appearing to "stick&quo

Setup and memory usage

Some weeks ago, I seconded a report that Cygwin wasn't releasing handles, causing some machines to thrash to death and the installation to fail. I can report that the problem is slightly improved in the current release of setup, but I think there are still some leaks as it is currently sitting at

Re: Setup and memory usage

On 25 Nov, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >I can report that the problem is slightly improved in the current > >release of setup, > > Er, there hasn't been any release of setup since the original reports. > The last release was on April 25, 2004. Sorry, I jumped to a conclusion. I was ins

Re: Setup and memory usage

On 25 Nov, fergus wrote: > 5. If you try installing in two stages (i - the default Base installation, > then ii - the rest) then, in my experience anyway, on three machines as > described above, the whole thing goes through like a dream. Ah! Thanks, Fergus, I'll give that a try. I assume y

Re: Setup and memory usage

On 25 Nov, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I assume you mean you just install Default > > then run setup a 2nd time, choosing All? > > Exactly. Many thanks, Fergus. Knowing that, I can add it to our Cygwin automated installation process. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/m

PATH and SystemRoot oddity

I see that by default PATH includes some entries like %SystemRoot%/System32 I also note that $SystemRoot is undefined, yet $SYSTEMROOT contains the expected C:\WINDOWS value. This of course causes problems. Would a backslash-style path work correctly if it were properly interpolated into the PAT

Re: PATH and SystemRoot oddity

On 26 Nov, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Luke Kendall wrote: > > > I see that by default PATH includes some entries like > > %SystemRoot%/System32 > > > > I also note that $SystemRoot is undefined, yet $SYSTEMROOT contains the > > expecte

Re: PATH and SystemRoot oddity

On 1 Dec, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > The interpolation of the %...% variables into REG_MULTI_SZ values happens > on the Windows level, before Cygwin ever sees them. Windows treats these > variables case-insensitively. > HTH, It does - thanks again, Igor. luke -- Unsubscribe info:

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