Fw: failure notice
rintable Many thanks, TW, for your hint. I have "solved" the problem, but I do not understand why it works! I took time to test it for a few days to make sure that things were ok. Hence the slow response. If I had only also included my prompt in the original email, I think that you would have caught the error at once. My oversight. Thomas Wolff wrote:>> Please test the following: * Set you prompt to some basic string, e.g. PS1=%. Does that change anything?* Mintty 2.7.5 changed the default wraparound behaviour to become compatible with the xterm default. With setting -o OldWrapModes=true, does that change anything?* Can you cross-test this in xterm? * Does it happen in a freshly-started mintty? If it only happens later, which programs did you run in the meantime?* Make a screen log demonstrating a minimal test case, please. << Trying the minimal prompt that you suggested, I did not have any terminal problems.And then building up the prompt, but eschewing colour, I still did not have probelms.That convinced me that, just as the webpage I quoted in my original email suggested, the problem lay in the (incorrect!) escape sequences to turn the prompts green. My prompt, that I just copied off the internet was PS1="\e[1;32m\]\h \! $ \[\e[0m\] " This is the cause of the problems. After a lot of hunting, I found another: PS1="\[\e[1;32m\]\h \! $ \[\e[0m\] " And this works just fine! The real issues is that I still have no real clue on how these escape sequences work!! I read several pages that talk about how to get various esoteric prmpts but none parses out the individual functional pieces. For me, it is a case of "monkey see, monkey do". Thanks again, TW. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Fw: When scrolling through history in cygwin terminal window line gets garbled
I am having a similar issue to that pictorially shown here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/344502/when-scrolling-through-history-in-cygwin-terminal-window-line-gets-garbled This is new to me as I have been using Cygwin on a Windows 7 machine for several years without encountering this problem. (Of course, that Cygwin build was from 5 or 6 years back.) I just moved to a Windows 10 machine and installed Cygwin from scratch a couple of days back and ran into the issue. Using the UP arrow to go up the history list, I have no problem till I hit a long command (in the case shown below the problematic command was about 50 characters long). When going one step further up the history list, the leading characters of the long command stay on the command line. I cannot backspace/delete them. I am using mintty from the standard distribution. Specific example. I issue a 'history' command to show the history and then use the UP arrow key to scroll upwards. After 6 Ups, I reach command no. 33 as shown below. sita 41 $ history 2 vi .bash_profile 3 quit 4 eixt 5 exit 6 histoyr 7 history 8 vi .bash_profile 9 vi .bash_profile 10 exit 11 history 12 cd /usr/share 13 ls 14 cd 15 history 16 exit 17 history 18 history 19 exit 20 sdafasfas 21 history 22 cp /usr/share/vim/vim*/vimrc_example.vim ~/.vimrc 23 history 24 cp /usr/share/vim/vim*/vimrc_example.vim ~/.vimrc 25 history 26 ls 27 cd 28 vi .bash_profile 29 exit 30 history 31 exit 32 cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out 33 history 34 history 35 ls 36 cd 37 pwd 38 ls 39 history 40 exit 41 history sita 42 $ history Now I move up one more step an get 30 history 31 exit 32 cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out 33 history 34 history 35 ls 36 cd 37 pwd 38 ls 39 history 40 exit 41 history sita 42 $ cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out which is just what is expected. One more and we get 31 exit 32 cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out 33 history 34 history 35 ls 36 cd 37 pwd 38 ls 39 history 40 exit 41 history sita 42 $ cygcheckexit Command 31 (exit) now has the extra characters pre-pending the entry on the history list. Hitting a return here executes the 'exit', though. This seems to work for other commands. It appears as though the characters have no effect. But, they do cause a bit of confusion! Also I noticed that if I input a really long string for a command, the characters that should be in a new line over write the leading characters of the command -- that is, there is no line feed when the text wraps around. Would greatly appreciate any help in fixing this. The 'cygcheck' output is attached. If you need any further information about the mintty set up, please let me know. tia. cygcheck.out Description: Binary data -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Cygwin window closes by itself -- And, a strange workaround
--- On Fri, 6/4/10, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: 1.5.25 is no longer supported. The current version is 1.7.5. I have downloaded the setup and will install this weekend. Thanks. sj -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
cygwin 1.5.25 slowing down Switch User and waking from Standby Mode
I recently upgraded to 1.5.25 and I now find that whenever we put the machine on Standy mode, or try to switch users, the machine hesitates for a very long time (up to 90 sec), while the previous 1.4.x did not. We are running Windows XP SP3. I read that 1.5.25 slows logoff in some special architectures. But our machine is a quite primitive Dell Pentium. Any help would be appreciated. thanks sj -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Cdrtools in Cygwin
I have been using Cdrtools under Cygwin for burning CDs for a couple of years now. The 'cdrecord' came from the precompiled Win32 binaries at http://smithii.com/cdrtools. (The URL may be defunct now, but a Google search brings up a cached version of the page!) The 'cdrecord' version I have is 2.01.01a01, which does not support DVDs and so I got the 'latest' (2.01.01a47) from http://www.student.tugraz.at/thomas.plank but on trying to use 'cdrecord' I get the message The procedure entry point_isinfd could not located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll As I am no Cygwin expert, could someone please throw some light on this. Perhaps, my version of cygwin1.dll is out of date (it is about a couple of years old)? Or, is there something more involved here? How does find the version of the DLL? thanks sj -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
File permissions and ownership changes between Unix and Cygwin
I have been successful in using 'mkisofs' and 'cdrecord' (from Joerg Schilling)to burn CDs using Cygwin. One thing that is strange is the change in file permissions and ownership. I used 'chown' to (recursively) change the entire filesystem to be burned onto the CD so that the owner was 'SYSTEM'. I verified that this change was right. The group ownership was 'None' and I left that alone. But, when I run 'mkisofs' to create a raw image of the CD, I find (using 'filedisk' to mount the raw image) that the file ownership has been switched back to my Windows XP account name. The burned CD is, of course, the same. Also the permissions on the CD are set to 'rwxrwxrwx' even though this was not the case in the files on the hard disk. I understand that this is something to do with 'mkisofs', but I was wondering if there is a Cygwin trick that I am missing. I would like burn disks so that they have the right permissions and ownerships when used on a Unix/Linux machine. In particualar, I want 'r--r--r--' for the permissions and 'root' for owner and group. Any hints would be greatly appreciated. thanks sj __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: File permissions and ownership changes between Unix and Cygwin
Brian, --- Brian Dessent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: surendar jeyadev wrote: As far as I understand it, the basic ISO9660 format does not have any fields to store file attributes such as owner or permissions. So on mounting such a disc, Windows and/or Cygwin will have to synthesize these fields, which is probably why they are not set as you want. Ah! Never thought about the basic format . To enable storing of these attributes you need to use the Rock Ridge extension. When creating your image you will have to make sure that you enable these extensions (-R, -r, etc.) Although I always, even on an Unix box, use the -R -J options when running mkisofs. The problem I mentioned occured with these options. But (as you say below) I need to explore the -r option, which I have not used so far. from the man page it looks like the author may be somewhat biased against win32: Ah!! That is putting it mildly. Very mildly. (But then again I am probably in that camp though, certainly not so extreme). When used on Win32, the execute bit is set on all files. This is a result of the lack of file permis- sions on Win32 and the Cygwin POSIX emulation layer. See also -uid -gid, -dir-mode, -file-mode and -new-dir-mode. I think that my answers will lie in these other options. I have not bothered with them so far. I'm not sure what This is a result of the lack of file permissions on Win32 and the Cygwin POSIX emulation layer but it seems like some pretty thick ignorance, since that's the entire point of Cygwin. I will leave you to spar with Joerg! I have my scars!! You should post your question on the cdrtools list or forum, since this is not a cygwin package. I will try to find one Don't think that one exists. Thanks for the quick response. sj __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
cdrecord and loopback devices
Sorry, Rene! Didn't send it to the group by mistake. --- René Berber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, no package, but there is one available for Cygwin: Look for cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a11-i586-pc-cygwin.exe or a more recent version (this was from 2003). Thanks. I got Ross Smith's version from the link on http://smithii.com/?q=node/view/9. mkisofs seems to work fine but I have not burnt a CD as yet. On Solaris I am used to testing the raw image prior to burning buy using the 'lofiadm' related commands to associate a device with the raw image file and then mounting it. Going through the Cygwin archives I gather that there are no loopback facilities within Cygwin, though I picked up a hint to used something called 'filedisk'. I have not completed its installation -- have to backup the registry first!! -- but, is there any *other* way to check the integrity of the ISO raw image file? thanks sj __ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS? *** SOLUTION *** ???
First of all, many thanks to all you who have pitched in to help me out. I followed Rene's advice and added 'hostname.exe' to the NIS 'allowed' list. I found that things moved along, but got stuck at 'uname'(should have expected that to happen!). So I added 'uname.exe' to NIS's list. And, lo and behold, everything seemed right. Then I tried 'vi' and it hung. By some stroke of luck I discovered that I had to logoff NIS. In my set up, from Dell, users are logged into NIS at Startup (do not know why). It is not just the firewall coming up, but the user is logged into the Norton account. If I just logoff the account and leave the firewall on, things seem to work. I will try some more things when I have time. One last question (and we may change the thread). All this is because I want to use 'cdrecord' from Joerg Schilling on my PC. Is there a package available? I am brand new to Cygwin and am not sure how one mine's the stuff -- I apologise for these simplistic questions. Thanks again to all of you. sj __ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS?
--- Brett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having a similar problem and so far have no solution. But my circumstances are slightly different and might suggest, if the underlying problem is the same, that the problem resides in another direction. I am running Windows 2000 Professional and Norton AntiVirus 2003 Professional. I am connected to the internet and was running a Cygwin upgrade directly from the Cygwin site last night. The install keeps freezing and the log indicates a problem with McShield. Specifically, Could not open service McShield for query, start and stop. McAfee may not be installed, or we don't have access.. I do not believe McAfee has every been on this box. I tried Apparently, this is not a problem. Larry Hall replied to one of my earlier problems -- not being able to install Cygwin at all, which seems to be your case -- saying this was normal. I quote him below: These messages are no problem. Setup checks for McAfee because it is known to cause setup problems. As the message notes, McAfee may not be installed,..., which is true in your case. dissabling both Auto-Protect and Script Blocking in Norton without luck. If our problems are the same, this is not a network issues. I should note that I did a complete from-scratch install of Cygwin on my brother's Windows XP box last night without any problem. I am not certain of his anti-virus protection and he is back on the road headed home this morning so I can't ask. Hope this is helpful and that someone has an idea. I have to try one more thing -- turn of Norton and unplug the cable. But there is something very fishy going one. When I tried to launch Cygwin a few minutes ago, Norton popped up a message saying 'hostname.exe is trying to contact DNS server'. Would anyone have an idea why a DNS sever is being contacted? It *appears* that my set up is behaving not only as a network set up, but the the modem/Norton combination is coming into play. I do not know what the modem is -- it was installed by Roadrunner and has no name on it! As my machine is very much an out of the box, plain XP from Dell, I would guess that this should not be an unusual case. But, maybe it is not :-) thanks sj __ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Installation Fails (Hangs?) on plain vanilla XP Machine
--- Larry Hall (Cygwin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: surendar jeyadev wrote: As things are not even getting to step 1, could there be something more fundamental at work -- such as communication problems? That's what I suspect, yes. You mentioned that you're using 'Direct Connection to the Internet' for 'setup.exe'. Is that the same method your browser uses to connect to the Internet? Yes, in the sense that I use Roadrunner and the setting there is Direct Connection to the Internet. So, if I were to try the HTTP or FTP methods, what should I use for the proxy? One of the entries in the mirrors list? I tried the one in Virginia for mirrors.rcn.net and the one in Tennessee mirrors.xmission.com, but did not get anywhere. thanks sj __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS?
I am changing the Suject line as this could be a new thread. The 'old problem', I think, has been solved. --- Larry Hall (Cygwin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me, this really sounds like a firewall problem but you might need to actually debug 'setup.exe' to verify that. Well, in some way it is. As I mentioned earlier, I use Norton Internet Security. And, as I also mentioned before, I tried the installation after logging off from Norton. Apparently, that is not enough. So, I stopped NIS explicitly, and, lo and behold, the installation went through -- I think :-) I now have a icon on the desktop saying Cygwin, but, once again, nothing works unless I kill NIS. With it on, the shell hangs. If I open it with NIS off, it appears to work. I can do a 'ls -a' and see the files I expect: .bash_profile, .bashrc and .inputrc. Commands like 'man', 'wc', etc. work. But, I need to be completely exposed. Even if I turn on NIS after the shell initialises, it freezes and does not unfreeze. So, my questions: 1. What are the recommended settings for Norton? 2. Why is a connection to the Internet needed at all? Should I not be able to work as a stand alone machine? It appears that Cygwin is attempting to contact a server. 3. Are there shell/environmental variables that I have to set to make it work as a stand alone installation? Lastly, I apologise for the abbreviation 'NIS'. I know it means something else, but it was just convenient for this thread! Special note of thanks to Larry for all the advice. thanks sj __ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Installation Fails (Hangs?) on plain vanilla XP Machine
I am trying to install Cygwin on a standard Windows XP set up. When I run 'setup.exe', it hangs at the point where is starts to download the 'mirrors.lst' file. The is no activity in the progress bar and I noted no disk or net activity for 30 min. Retried 3 times to no avail. The log file is included below. --- 2005/11/24 18:53:06 Starting cygwin install, version 2.510.2.2 2005/11/24 18:53:06 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or directory 2005/11/24 18:53:06 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or directory 2005/11/24 18:53:06 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or directory 2005/11/24 18:53:06 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or directory 2005/11/24 18:53:06 Current Directory: C:\Documents and Settings\surendar\Desktop\Software 2005/11/24 18:53:06 Changing gid to Users 2005/11/24 18:53:06 Could not open service McShield for query, start and stop. McAfee may not be installed, or we don't have access. 2005/11/24 18:53:08 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or directory 2005/11/24 18:53:08 source: network install 2005/11/24 18:53:09 root: C:\cygwin binary system 2005/11/24 18:53:14 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or directory 2005/11/24 18:53:14 Selected local directory: C:\Documents and Settings\surendar\Desktop\Software\Cygwin 2005/11/24 18:53:16 net: Direct 2005/11/24 18:53:28 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or directory 2005/11/24 18:53:28 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or directory 2005/11/24 18:53:28 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or directory 2005/11/24 18:53:28 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or directory 2005/11/24 18:53:28 Ending cygwin install --- A couple of questions. What are McShield and McAfee doing here? I run Norton Internet Security. Could that be the problem? But, turning off the firewall did nothing to help. Any help can be appreciated. thanks sj __ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Installation Fails (Hangs?) on plain vanilla XP Machine
--- Larry Hall (Cygwin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: surendar jeyadev wrote: I am trying to install Cygwin on a standard Windows XP set up. When I run 'setup.exe', it hangs at the point where is starts to download the 'mirrors.lst' file. The is no activity in the progress bar and I noted no disk or net activity for 30 min. Retried 3 times to no avail. The log file is included below. Can you reach http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst from your browser? Are you using an FTP mirror? If so, try an HTTP mirror instead. Or try: http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/cygwin/setup-2.513-alpha.exe Yes, I could reach http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst without any problems. I was using 'Direct Connection to the Internet'. I fetched 'setup-2.513-alpha.exe' and it failed the same way. The log file is identical. As things are not even getting to step 1, could there be something more fundamental at work -- such as communication problems? thanks sj __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
