RE: cygwins setup hangs in installation: Conflict with software FRITZ!DSL Startcenter

2005-10-21 Thread Dave Korn
Norbert Harendt wrote: I was astonished to find the entries C:\Programme\FRITZ!DSL\DLL, so i tried to run XWin on a computer in our network which hasn't FRITZ!DSL-software, and ... it was running without any error or hang !! There a two computers with FRITZ!DSL-software on it, and on

RE: textmount/binmount issue

2005-10-25 Thread Dave Korn
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 05:56:36PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 11:05:13AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Looks like the cygdrive prefix takes precedence over explicit mounts. This

RE: 1.5.12 ssh hangs on some machines when stdout has content

2005-10-25 Thread Dave Korn
David Corbin wrote: I have found that ssh hangs semi-consistently, when it's stdout is piped to another process. I say semi-consistently, because it's not happening on all of our machines, but it is consistent for any of the problem machines. Furthermore, the command must actually produce

Setup fails to write help output to logfile [was RE: 1.5.12 ssh hangs on some machines when stdout has content]

2005-10-25 Thread Dave Korn
Rolf Campbell wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: As I've said before, http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-04/msg00086.html. This result from the search I suggested looks promising, if only to get the setup options: http://www.maths.lth.se/help/windows/cygwin/. See also /var/log/setup.log after

RE: cygwin-setup rebaseall

2005-10-25 Thread Dave Korn
Satish Balay wrote: Doesn't setup have similar problem with updating 'packages' for running apps? I think it prompts for a reboot to complete. So I'm guessing the same approach can be used when it needs a rebase. It's not as straightforward as all that. The facility to update a file on

RE: AllVersions: Running Cygwin X w/ Registy Entries

2005-10-26 Thread Dave Korn
Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Christopher Faylor (2005-10-26 15:37 +0100) On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:26:36AM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: Try regedit /s in a batch (instead of double clicking). This sometimes works. Or, I dunno, if that works, you could just use mount and forget about regedit

RE: AllVersions: Running Cygwin X w/ Registy Entries

2005-10-26 Thread Dave Korn
Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Dave Korn (2005-10-26 17:48 +0100) Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Christopher Faylor (2005-10-26 15:37 +0100) On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:26:36AM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: Try regedit /s in a batch (instead of double clicking). This sometimes works. Or, I dunno

RE: AllVersions: Running Cygwin X w/ Registy Entries

2005-10-26 Thread Dave Korn
Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Chris Taylor (2005-10-26 17:38 +0100) Problem with that is that if the sysadmin knows what he's doing, it only takes about 4 seconds to block off almost all possible ways of actually editing the registry... Definitely not. Oh yes it does. Start-Run-regedit.

RE: how to get a coredump [was RE: Asterisk Cygwin]

2005-10-27 Thread Dave Korn
Jason Pyeron wrote: As I don't use debuggers every day, I am posing this to the list: On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Jerris, Michael MI wrote: With the patch on that bug in mantis, everything compiles great and starts, but I am getting segfaults when I try to pass calls. Do you know how to get a

RE: Missing /bin/sh link

2005-10-28 Thread Dave Korn
David Picton wrote: I'd like to know whether other people have seen this problem. I did a new installation on a C disk and found that files were missing. The cause was a missing link - no /bin/sh. I did 'ln -s ash.exe sh.exe' and reinstalled the packages, and all was well. sh is meant

RE: CYGWIN Installation-VIM ( CYGWIN Reinstallation)

2005-10-28 Thread Dave Korn
S.Sunil Kumar wrote: Hi Alexander , I got it...I did that before. But now I have realised from your word that I have to choose the packeges propoerly while downloading. Which I have missed earlier.I didnt selected properly. Now I am downloading a Packege and selected INSTALL for all

RE: CYGWIN Intsallation-VIM-Thanks

2005-10-28 Thread Dave Korn
S.Sunil Kumar wrote: Hi Alexander zzapper Dave Reid, As you guys instructed I will run the SETUP Program and Uninstall all packages and delete the CYGWIN Folder First. No, really, you don't need to. I only gave you that info because you asked. Setup will painlessly *update* your

RE: can not find valid cygwin path

2005-11-01 Thread Dave Korn
lin q wrote: Hi, I have the latest cygwin installed on WinXP SP1. It works fine in general until I try to run some program today. It is really weired, the program requiring setting up some environment viriables, I guess iniside its code it tries to find some data based on that

RE: can not find valid cygwin path

2005-11-01 Thread Dave Korn
lin q wrote: From: Dave Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh no. More spam. :-( Please read http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR! I do not quite get what you are saying and your example, I am using BASH which the default cygwin shell. Hmm, maybe I don't quite get what you are saying

RE: cygcheck improvements

2005-11-02 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: Seeing Igor's analysis of corrupt /etc/services symlinks reminded me that I wanted to start a discussion on cygcheck improvements. Ideally, cygcheck should report on things like /etc/services being wrong. What other kind of common things could cygcheck be testing

RE: cygcheck improvements

2005-11-02 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:37:25PM -, Dave Korn wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Seeing Igor's analysis of corrupt /etc/services symlinks reminded me that I wanted to start a discussion on cygcheck improvements. Ideally, cygcheck should report on things like

RE: cygcheck improvements

2005-11-02 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: What other kind of common things could cygcheck be testing for? cgf It should search the browser's webcache/history log, and if it doesn't find that the user's been to view the FAQ lately, it forces it open in a full-screen window! cheers, DaveK --

RE: cygcheck improvements

2005-11-02 Thread Dave Korn
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Dave Korn wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:37:25PM -, Dave Korn wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: What other kind of common things could cygcheck be testing for? Hey, I had another idea. It should definitely

RE: cygcheck improvements

2005-11-02 Thread Dave Korn
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Fair enough. I guess what I was saying is that the addition of the two things I mentioned would make that part of cygcheck output all the more valuable. :-) Oh yes, totally agree! But that's a slightly longer-term project :) BTW, one thing that's been suggested

RE: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Dave Korn
Andy Moreton wrote: On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:00:51 GMT, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 07:41 -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: I guess I don't see the point. Isn't Wine an emulator for running Windows apps on Unix/Linux? If so then why would you need it under Cygwin as Cygwin

RE: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Dave Korn
Brian Dessent wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Well, how about sandboxing? It's the ideal way to test out a virus or other suspect warez: run it on a virtual machine where it can't escape into your real one. But WINE isn't a virtual machine, and it doesn't offer that kind of protection. You

RE: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Dave Korn
Brian Dessent wrote: Dave Korn wrote: But WINE isn't a virtual machine, and it doesn't offer that kind of protection. You would need Xen / VMWare / etc for that. Oh, I stand corrected. You mean it doesn't even do virtual-drive-in-a-file-on-the-real-HD then? That's a shame. Well

RE: 1.5.18+ resource leak?

2005-11-04 Thread Dave Korn
Brian Ford wrote: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cd some_directory tar cf - some_other_directory' | tar xvf - These are large copies of several hundred megabytes. Here was the result: tar some_file_path: Cannot write: Permission denied 4 [main] -bash 2304 fork_copy: user/cygwin data pass 2

RE: 1.5.18+ resource leak?

2005-11-04 Thread Dave Korn
Brian Ford wrote: Yes, I haven't seen anything I could identify either. I think the key is that these are mostly small files (a hundred thousand or so). Copying larger ones of the same volume doesn't seem to trigger the problem. That _does_ seem somewhat like the issue described in the

RE: To continue file name

2005-11-07 Thread Dave Korn
Alex Vinokur wrote: Hi, For instance, directory contains files abcd, xyz, f123. For instance, I print 'a' and don't want to print 'bcd'. How can Cygwin continue file name automatically. In bash shell, you just press TAB to complete the filename. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of

RE: To continue file name

2005-11-07 Thread Dave Korn
Alex Vinokur wrote: Dave Korn wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Alex Vinokur wrote: Hi, For instance, directory contains files abcd, xyz, f123. For instance, I print 'a' and don't want to print 'bcd'. How can Cygwin continue file name automatically. In bash shell, you just

RE: Inetd running slow

2005-11-08 Thread Dave Korn
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Stephen Patterson wrote: Hi all I've installed inetutils uw-imapd on cygwin, registered inet as a windows XP service (which starts OK) and I'm running uw-imapd through inetd. Inetd uw-imap are slow to respond when I connect to them locally. Does anyone know

RE: How to run cygwin sshd as a domain user?

2005-11-08 Thread Dave Korn
Xing Qiu wrote: No, I tried that, and it didn't work. As far as I understand, cygrunsrv is just a wrapper to run some daemon in the background. I simply can't start sshd with my own user. Below are the error messages: $ /usr/sbin/sshd.exe -d debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_4.1p1 Could not

RE: Old versions of setup.exe

2005-11-08 Thread Dave Korn
Peter A. Castro wrote: Unfortunately, the Cygwin Time Machine hasn't been archiving setup.exe (at least not consistently). The top of /pub/cygwin/ always has the latest setup.exe (and setup.ini), but the Time Machine hasn't been archiving it because there's no automatic way to extract the

RE: Old versions of setup.exe

2005-11-09 Thread Dave Korn
Peter A. Castro wrote: On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Dave Korn wrote: Peter A. Castro wrote: Unfortunately, the Cygwin Time Machine hasn't been archiving setup.exe (at least not consistently). The top of /pub/cygwin/ always has the latest setup.exe (and setup.ini), but the Time Machine hasn't been

FAO Teun Burgers [was RE: fltk package status]

2005-11-22 Thread Dave Korn
Shai Ayal wrote: Hi all, I'm not sure if this is the right list, but here it goes: Yes, it absolutely is. Maintainers don't like to be bothered at their private email addresses; the list is the place to make contact. You can try and get their attention by pinging them in the subject line

RE: exception while starting cygwin

2005-11-23 Thread Dave Korn
cygwin wrote: Hello, I install cygwin without errors. After that, I want to start cygwin with cygwin.bat, but nothing happens. When I start cygwin.bat under a tracesoftware (TRACEPLUS), I got this output: An exception occured in process bash at address 0x77E7B702. The type of exception

RE: INSTALLATION HANGING

2005-11-23 Thread Dave Korn
Silvio Bandeira wrote: Hi, the installation process hangs when executing /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh No it doesn't. It's still running. It just takes some time. Don't be so impatient! If you start up task-manager, you'll see that processes are still running and doing things.

RE: Is there a default ssh password if no Windows password is present?

2005-11-23 Thread Dave Korn
Jerry Moody wrote: Is there a default ssh password if no Windows password is present? When I attempt to ssh into a WinXP machine with no Windows account password, I still get prompted for a password and I can't seem to guess what it is (null, anonymous, etc don't seem to work). I have set up

RE: Persisting values of environment variables

2005-11-24 Thread Dave Korn
Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Nate Meyer on 11/23/2005 11:27 AM: I'm trying to change the value of $HOME. If I do something like export HOME=c:/whatever $HOME is changed for that session. But after Cygwin is closed and restarted $HOME is set

RE: INSTALLATION HANGING

2005-11-25 Thread Dave Korn
Silvio Bandeira wrote: No it doesn't. It's still running. It just takes some time. Don't be so impatient! Wrong. It was stalled for more than one hour. The task manager senses no processing for that process (no activity in HD either). Maybe some windows misconfiguration... but the

RE: /dev/console : permission denied

2005-11-25 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher McIntosh wrote: Consequently, I am back to the issue which I was first reporting/investigating: Why does init report open(/dev/console) : permission denied. strace might be able to tell you that. SUMMARY: 1. 'cygcheck -s -v -r' causes an error when executed within a Cygwin

RE: Where is rsh ?

2005-11-25 Thread Dave Korn
Brian Dessent wrote: In the specific case of inetutils you probably will not find a canonical upstream site because it is all code derived from the original BSD unix. Brian No, it's gnu these days, isn't it? http://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/inetutils.html cheers, DaveK

RE: /dev/console : permission denied

2005-11-25 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 02:24:53PM -, Dave Korn wrote: Christopher McIntosh wrote: Consequently, I am back to the issue which I was first reporting/investigating: Why does init report open(/dev/console) : permission denied. strace might be able to tell you

RE: /dev/console : permission denied

2005-11-25 Thread Dave Korn
Chris Taylor wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Christopher McIntosh wrote: Consequently, I am back to the issue which I was first reporting/investigating: Why does init report open(/dev/console) : permission denied. I don't know about the cygcheck error but the /dev

RE: complete newbie Q

2005-11-29 Thread Dave Korn
-Tim Prince wrote: Weiqi Gao wrote: On 11/29/05, rosty dima.hristov wrote: For example, can a take a unix source, compile and run it under cygwin, then go to another win32 machine that has not cygwin installed, and run it there? No. Unless you can accept -mno-cygwin as a solution.

RE: complete newbie Q

2005-11-29 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: porting effort. (MinGW provides _some_ of the POSIX syscalls, but it's a massively less-complete implementation than Cygwin. MSYS provides more, ... but it's not included in the cygwin mingw distribution.) cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today

RE: complete newbie Q

2005-11-29 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 04:52:05PM -, Dave Korn wrote: Dave Korn wrote: porting effort. (MinGW provides _some_ of the POSIX syscalls, but it's a massively less-complete implementation than Cygwin. MSYS provides more, ... but it's not included in the cygwin

RE: Issues Upgrading Octave and Octave-Forge

2005-12-01 Thread Dave Korn
James R. Phillips wrote: For those that are upgrading octave and octave-forge to the newest releases, be certain that you are not using octave at the time of the upgrade, otherwise the installation may not update files that are in use, resulting in a partial installation. For those that

RE: Where is my --password-file?

2005-12-14 Thread Dave Korn
jd wrote: I am trying to back up a Windows box using rsync and I get this error message: rsync: link_stat /home/Administrator/password-file=/home/Administrator/rsync_passwd failed: No such file or directory (2) But the file is there: $ ls -al /home/Administrator/rsync_passwd

RE: Where is my --password-file?

2005-12-14 Thread Dave Korn
web wrote: Dave, actually, this is the command I have used: rsync -avz /cygdrive/e/Company password-file=/home/Administrator/rsync_passwd --delete --delete-excluded --exclude Office2003/ --exclude Office2003SP/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]::winbackups/ /home/Administrator/rsync_server1.log

RE: Where is patch?

2005-12-14 Thread Dave Korn
René Berber wrote: The latest GNU patch version compiles out of the box *Where* is the latest GNU patch version? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

RE: Where is patch?

2005-12-14 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:48:57PM -0600, Ren? Berber wrote: Lennart Borgman wrote: I am having trouble with patch. My Cygwin patch (and my GnuWin32 patch) says it is version 2.5.9. But where is the sources for this? I looked at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/patch and

RE: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread Dave Korn
René Berber wrote: Dave Korn wrote: [snip] And I imagine both of you have testcases available to prove your respective claims. ? Test case attached. The files are part of mailman, I just included a shortened patch file and the file to be patched. The test procedure

Patch mystery (at least partly) solved.

2005-12-15 Thread Dave Korn
This makes things seem a good deal clearer, at least to me: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/diffutils/ -quote- This project is part of the GNU Project. The GNU diffutils are comprised of diff, diff3, sdiff, and cmp, utilities for

RE: Rsync over SSH not working when ZoneAlarm installed

2005-12-15 Thread Dave Korn
Zarko Roganovic wrote: When I set ZoneAlarm to block rsync.exe from accessing the internet I got the following error rsync: failed to connect to 192.168.1.2: Connection refused (111) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.6/clientserver.c(98)

RE: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread Dave Korn
Lennart Borgman wrote: What do I need to be able to build patch 2.5.9 for Cygwin? I downloaded gcc-core and make and some other things. Trying to run ./conficure I get configure:1652: checking for C compiler default output configure:1655: gccconftest.c 5 Assembler messages: FATAL:

RE: Add setup.exe to the start menu

2005-12-15 Thread Dave Korn
LENNART BORGMAN wrote: I do not know if I missed something when I installed Cygwin, but I do not have a shortcut to setup.exe in the Cygwin group in the start menu. I think it should be there. It is not a command line tool. Setup.exe doesn't actually install a copy of itself anywhere, but

RE: Add setup.exe to the start menu

2005-12-15 Thread Dave Korn
Lennart Borgman wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Setup.exe doesn't actually install a copy of itself anywhere, but then again we could always get it to create a shortcut to http://cygwin.com/setup.exe, which would also have the advantage of making sure people use the latest version all the time

RE: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread Dave Korn
Lennart Borgman wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Lennart Borgman wrote: What do I need to be able to build patch 2.5.9 for Cygwin? I downloaded gcc-core and make and some other things. Trying to run ./conficure I get configure:1652: checking for C compiler default output configure:1655: gcc

RE: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread Dave Korn
Lennart Borgman wrote: Thanks! There is a hit, I did not have as from Cygwin. Changed my path a bit. But how do I find as? I would get the package search as it is now is of no big use for such a name? ;-) Heh, that's true, although there is a handy trick for the package search: since

RE: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread Dave Korn
Lennart Borgman wrote: Lennart Borgman wrote: Dave Korn wrote: And the answer is that as is the GNU assembler, and it is part of the binutils package, which lives under the 'Devel' category in setup. Thanks for this! That trick is so handy in my opinion so it ought to be as a tip

RE: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread Dave Korn
Lennart Borgman wrote: I tried a just to copy patch.exe. Then I saw this that I just wish I did not. Here is a copy and paste from my screen output (a bit truncated): from my screen /cygdrive/d/dl/gnu/patch-2.5.9 ./patch.exe --version patch 2.5.9 ... /cygdrive/d/dl/gnu/patch-2.5.9

RE: handle_threadlist_exception called with threadlist_ix -1

2005-12-16 Thread Dave Korn
ubik wrote: Hello, i'm using cygwin release version is 1.5.18-1 and my program compiles and work perfectly on linux. It compiles also on cygwin but after 15-20 sec it segfault. I think that the problem is in pthread implementation on cygwin. The cygwin pthread implementation is

RE: Documentation bug: gcc(1) in gcc-core 3.4.4-1

2005-12-16 Thread Dave Korn
Adam Buchbinder wrote: Also, the documentation for -print-multi-lib seems to be mangled: Should this go upstream to the gcc folks? If it's still present in the HEAD of the gcc repository, yes; they would be glad of you to file a bug report in the gcc bugzilla. cheers, DaveK --

RE: Utility to get IP address of the machine

2006-01-03 Thread Dave Korn
Alex Vinokur wrote: What is Cygwin utility to get IP address of the machine? A machine can have many IP addresses, one for each network interface. If you don't care /which/ one, you can just hard-code 127.0.0.1 ;-) but I think that's probably not the answer you're looking for. You may

RE: type ahead bug report - so far not addressed

2006-01-04 Thread Dave Korn
Robert Body wrote: here is the bug report again, i tried emailing Corinna, but that didn't work Like i said I wrote about this a week ago, but nobody replied that yes we will investigate or yes we will fix it. Here's a response to your earlier post. Robert Body wrote: It could be the 3

RE: Utility to get IP address of the machine

2006-01-04 Thread Dave Korn
Andrew DeFaria wrote: Bernhard Ege wrote: -- It's lonely at the top, but you eat better. I use my getip.sh script (windows xp): #!/bin/bash # find default gateways # select the one with the lowest metric ip=`route print | egrep ^ +0.0.0.0 +0.0.0.0 + | gawk 'BEGIN { metric=255;

RE: Windows Task Scheduler

2006-01-04 Thread Dave Korn
Lst Recv wrote: I tried using the Windows Task Scheduler to schedule a bash -c hibernate now command, yet it didn't seem to run. Is there a reason that bash/hibernate wouldn't like Task Scheduler? If so, what is the best way to handle this? (Just install and use crond?) Everything Igor

RE: problem with running gdb in cygwin

2006-01-04 Thread Dave Korn
Krisakorn Rerkrai wrote: Hi, I have a problem with running gdb in the cygwin. Attached you find cygcheck.out Which confirms what cgf said. Upgrade your cygwin dll. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: error parsing setup.bz2 in setup.exe

2006-01-04 Thread Dave Korn
Eric Vlach wrote: At 8:30am PST, setup worked fine. Then at 8:50am PST, the following error occured, and has been occuring ever since: Ah, that'll be it. Setup is a notoriously late riser, and if you try and get it out of bed that early in the morning you shouldn't be surprised if it's

RE: Signals

2006-01-04 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 11:25:27AM -0700, John Buttitto wrote: I wrote some simeple test code in Java to trap signals. Seems to work well, I then ported it to cygwin. The code listens for the SIGINT and prints a message. When I hit Ctrl-C while it is running the

RE: Does ^G work on Windows 9x/Me?

2006-01-05 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 06:21:11PM -0500, Joe Smith wrote: So, maybe I will just cause the system to use MessageBox(MB_OK) aka MessageBox(0). MessageBox??? YA observed trend for the new year - not reading the full email thread before spasmodically typing in a

RE: Cygwin and getsubopt

2006-01-06 Thread Dave Korn
Chris Taylor wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:04:01PM +0530, Vijay Kiran Kamuju wrote: I could see getsubopt declaration in the unistd.h but in unix/linux its defined in stdlib.h i have also noticed that cygwin1.dll does not have that function implemented. as

RE: Problem building expat-1.95.8 under cygwin

2006-01-06 Thread Dave Korn
L. Van Warren wrote: 1) download expat via cygwin setup.exe 2) cd /usr/src All correct so far. 3) gunzip expat-1.95.8.tar.gz 4) tar -xf expat-1.95.8.tar 5) cd /usr/src/expat-1.95.8 6) ./configure 7) make Wrong. Use the build script (expat-1.95.8-1.sh) that is supplied along with the

RE: bash -c error

2006-01-10 Thread Dave Korn
Krzysztof Duleba wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: $ bash -c time Segmentation fault (core dumped) $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 DULI2 1.5.19s(0.141/4/2) 20051020 10:37:08 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin Reproduced on several machines. I wonder what can it be. Just try running 'time' from

autoconf/automake: just can't get it to work at all.

2006-01-10 Thread Dave Korn
I'm having trouble with the cygwin auto*tool package and the wrappers it puts around the different tool versions. I've looked in the following places /usr/doc /usr/doc/Cygwin /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/Cygwin man automake man autoconf info automake info autoconf and

RE: Cannot install - xmlcatalog cannot find libxml2

2006-01-10 Thread Dave Korn
Marcus Williams wrote: Hi - I'm currently trying to reinstall cygwin but I'm unable to because during the final stages of installation something is complaining about xmlcatalog.exe being unable to find libxml2.dll. This causes the whole installation to fail and then tries to rewind (failing

RE: Cannot install - xmlcatalog cannot find libxml2

2006-01-10 Thread Dave Korn
Marcus Williams wrote: On 10/01/2006 Dave Korn wrote: You need libxml2-devel for that file (enter 'libxml2.dll' at http://cygwin.com/packages). It should have been automatically selected when you selected libxml2, but there may be a missing dependency. Nope - still got the same problem

RE: Cannot install - xmlcatalog cannot find libxml2

2006-01-10 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: Marcus Williams wrote: On 10/01/2006 Dave Korn wrote: You need libxml2-devel for that file (enter 'libxml2.dll' at http://cygwin.com/packages). It should have been automatically selected when you selected libxml2, but there may be a missing dependency. Nope - still got

RE: Cannot install - xmlcatalog cannot find libxml2

2006-01-10 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: Dave Korn wrote: This must be a real packaging error. Looks like the maintainer might have compiled libxml2-devel with --disable-shared and then compiled xmlcatalog with --enable-shared. Nope, that's not it. I think I /have/ traced it now: it's a packaging error

RE: Cannot install - xmlcatalog cannot find libxml2

2006-01-10 Thread Dave Korn
Marcus Williams wrote: On 10/01/2006 Dave Korn wrote: Your quickest workround would probably be either rebuilding xmlcatalog from source, giving it the --disable-shared option at configure time so it builds and links against the static libxml2.a, or to rebuild the libxml2-devel package from

RE: Cannot install - xmlcatalog cannot find libxml2

2006-01-10 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Making a habit of correcting myself today... d'oh! Nope, that's not it. I think I /have/ traced it now: it's a packaging error in libxml2 package itself. It contains the dll, but the maintainer forgot to package it with the correct

RE: Cannot install - xmlcatalog cannot find libxml2

2006-01-10 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Making a habit of correcting myself today... d'oh! And following-up to my own posts, but this is worth saying too: maintainer forgot to package it with the correct prefix. You might be able to fix the problem

RE: Cannot install - xmlcatalog cannot find libxml2

2006-01-10 Thread Dave Korn
Brian Dessent wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Just to clarify: it is entirely standard for cygwin apps to use non-standard cygXXX names for cygwin dlls to link against. It would be very nonstandard of xmlcatalog to link against a dll with a standard libXXX name. Right. And you should

RE: setup crashes trying to install xorg-x11-fnts

2006-01-11 Thread Dave Korn
David Rothenberger wrote: On 1/10/2006 10:00 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: On 1/10/2006 8:28 PM, Igor Peshansky wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, David Rothenberger wrote: Any ideas how to fix this? Here's the backtrace. I haven't had a chance to do any debugging yet, though. #0 0x5f01265c in

RE: New installation does not connect stdout to terminal

2006-01-11 Thread Dave Korn
Russell K Montgomery wrote: I have installed cygwin on a new Windows XP box and when I run Cygwin I do not get output from commands on the terminal. The only way I can get the output is to redirect stdout to stderr ls -l 12 That's the wackiest bug I've heard of in a while! Does the same

RE: Segment fault/Bus error with Singular

2006-01-11 Thread Dave Korn
Murray Eisenberg wrote: Unfortunately, the instructions in FAQ # 2.15 How do I install snapshots? is not completely clear. It says that one should first close all Cygwin applications and shells. But then it says to run a sequence of commands: cd / tar ... cd /tmp tar

RE: Segment fault/Bus error with Singular

2006-01-11 Thread Dave Korn
Murray Eisenberg wrote: [Murray, let's keep this thread on-list please.] Sorry, I don't understand your reply, either. To put it very simply: To intstall the snapshot: (1) Where do I put the downloaded snapshot files? You can put them where-ever you like. That's why the tar

RE: New installation does not connect stdout to terminal

2006-01-11 Thread Dave Korn
Russell K Montgomery wrote: Got it resolved. I checked the properties for what was being invoked by the Cygwin icon since Christopher Faylor suggested that I invoke things clean by hand and when I went and this system had extra characters after the C:\Cygwin\cygwin.bat x#1ax#45 which my

RE: Segment fault/Bus error with Singular

2006-01-11 Thread Dave Korn
Murray Eisenberg wrote: So once again I ask for clarification. I really do think it's a very simple and perfectly straightforward question: Does one run those 4 commands in Step 1 from a Windows command prompt or from within Cygwin? Well, yes, it is a straightforward, but I would have

RE: autoconf/automake problem: simple testcase [was RE: autoconf/automake: just can't get it to work at all.]

2006-01-12 Thread Dave Korn
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: From: Dave Korn [snip] I don't get that. I've got the default alternatives set, so IIUIC it should have selected the most recent autoconf, shouldn't it? I imagine this is intended to work with everything in the default installation state, but as you see

RE: problems with running Gnome applications

2006-01-12 Thread Dave Korn
Alessandro Lendaro wrote: i cant execute bluefish ( Bad system call message) etcetera. This is a http://cygwin.com/acronyms#WAG, but have you got CYGWIN=server set in your environment, and are you running the cygserver? That's a pretty common cause of Bad system call errors. Of

RE: Define _POSIX_SOURCE in cygwin's features.h?

2006-01-12 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: Someone on the cygwin irc channel had a problem building a package which would have been solved if Cygwin defined _POSIX_SOURCE. I know that Cygwin is not fully POSIX compliant (I really really do) but I'm wondering if setting _POSIX_SOURCE in the cygwin headers

RE: Define _POSIX_SOURCE in cygwin's features.h?

2006-01-12 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:40:35PM -, Dave Korn wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Someone on the cygwin irc channel had a problem building a package which would have been solved if Cygwin defined _POSIX_SOURCE. I know that Cygwin is not fully POSIX compliant (I

RE: Define _POSIX_SOURCE in cygwin's features.h?

2006-01-12 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:08:32PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: But a portable program should _not_ assume that #defining _GNU_SOURCE implies that _POSIX_SOURCE. If a program not only needs posix stuff but also some GNU extras, it should #define _GNU_SOURCE _and_

RE: Define _POSIX_SOURCE in cygwin's features.h?

2006-01-12 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: If I could easily make cygwin behave exactly the same way so that a buffer overrun that worked on linux went undetected on cygwin, too, I'd do that? If there was some linker option to ensure that, I'd use it. The point of cygwin isn't that it is a place where you

RE: Fatal error when trying to initialise PostgreSQL in cygwin

2006-01-13 Thread Dave Korn
Adrian Maier wrote: On 1/13/06, Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 13 12:44, Adrian Maier wrote: Hello, /usr/bin/initdb: line 564: 3312 Bad system call $PGPATH/postgres -boo Did you read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-8.0.4.README? I hadn't read that file.

RE: support

2006-01-17 Thread Dave Korn
Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [I hate it when simple instructions aren't followed - I explicitly said that the list was the correct place for support...] Nilgun, I won't want private mail either; keep it to the list please. I am a new user for Cygwin

RE: [ADMINISTRIVIA] Please don't use 'cygwin at cygwin dot com' as an email address

2006-01-17 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: The spam trap has caught a few attempts from people who are attempting to use 'cygwin at cygwin dot com' (i.e., the actual email address) as their From: email address. Please don't do that. It won't work. This From: address has been used to send spam so its use as

RE: inode changed, 9Exception, NetApp share - any coincidence?

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
Jan Schormann wrote: a) Since yesterday, when running setup.exe on our own, private, enriched mirror, I get an error message saying Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception Thread: DialogProc Type: 9Exception Message: Package validation failure for

RE: Using VC-compiled Mesa binaries under Cygwin

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
Eric Lilja wrote: However, doing a nm GLUT32.lib | grep glutPostRedisplay (the first undefined reference), shows: $ nm GLUT32.lib | grep _glutPostRedisplay I [EMAIL PROTECTED] T [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is definitely the MSVC name mangling convention but I think that

RE: Malfunctioning of cygpath -H

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
Rodrigo Medina wrote: Hi, The new cygpath 15.1.19-2 writes an additional line in the tty $ cygpath -H $ ** buf C:\WINDOWS\Profiles $ /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Profiles bye R.M. Oops! Someone left some debug print in there! [ Unless someone beats me to it I'll remove this

RE: DDD freezes with Open-Source File ...

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
Humberto Bortolossi wrote: Greetings! I'm trying to debug a C++/wxWidgets project using DDD under cygwin. However, DDD freezes when I try to open a project file with File-Open Source Indeed, it seems DDD (GDB?) tries to create a list of ALL source files, including the source

RE: Intermittent cygwin heap allocation problem

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
Cliff Hones wrote: 6 [main] ? (2604) C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x48, top 0x4A, reserve_size 126976, allocsize 131072, page_const 4096 98 [main] bash 2160 child_copy: stack write copy failed,

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