Re: Setup 2.194.2.21 on Win98 - stack fault in kernel32.dll

I downloaded setup_old.exe (version 2.125.2.10) from the ftp mirror where I downloaded the Cygwin packages, and it works perfectly, without causing a stack fault. That would indicate to me that the problem is with setup.exe itself and not with any of the packages. Hopefully this nugget of informat

Setup 2.194.2.21 on Win98 - stack fault in kernel32.dll

I have attempted to install the 1.3.10 release of Cygwin a couple of times now, using both the Install from Internet and Install from Local Directory options. Everything runs smoothly through the Select Packages to Install screen. After clicking Next on that screen, the Progress dialog appears for

Re: bash: more: command not found

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 09:57:58PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >The funny thing is, after a big discussion on cygwin-apps, 'more' was >put in the "BASE" category, which means it is installed by default >unless someone un-checks it in setup.exe. I hope that in this case the >mirror just h

Re: bash: more: command not found

> An even better FAQ entry, at least for this package, is this: > > Q. Where can I find "more"? > > A. Use "less" instead. > > A much better solution than installing the more package! > > No disrespect to the more package maintainer, though. :-) (That's me.) Very true. Actually, t

Re: stacktrace from withn an exec upon error condition

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:05:32PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >For the record, I don't know anything about what is required to >interface with bfd. I'm offering this information so that Robert Randall >Schulz won't accuse me of bei

Re: stacktrace from withn an exec upon error condition

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 07:40:03PM -0800, Hans Horn wrote: >I just tried Chris' little test and got: something like this: Wow, hens' teeth prevail. >This however, is of little help (at least not to me). > >What I had in mind, though, was to get a list of the function names >(demangled of course)

Re: stacktrace from withn an exec upon error condition

Dear all, I just tried Chris' little test and got: something like this: Stack trace: Frame Function Args 0022FE84 00401073 (00401244, , 0022FEA4, 00401063) 0022FE94 00401073 (610A0368, 0001, 0022FEB4, 00401054) 0022FEA4 00401063 (00D0, , 0022FF10, 61003F42) 0022

Re: stacktrace from withn an exec upon error condition

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 06:46:52PM -0800, Richard Hitt wrote: >Is it unreasonable to find appalling the suggestion to use an >undocumented function? Are you volunteering to write documentation? That would be great! We really need someone to work on documentation! It seems that people frequently

corrupted cygwin startup.

Hello, I've got a win2k box with cygwin on it. Apparently something got corrupted somewhere, i can no longer run cygwin, the shortcut does nothing. I'm thinking it's an association issue, can someone tell me what file association to use? Thanks. Dave. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin

Re: stacktrace from withn an exec upon error condition

Is it unreasonable to find appalling the suggestion to use an undocumented function? Richard On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 17:17:51 -0500, you wrote: >On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 08:44:27AM -0800, Hans Horn wrote: >>where does cygwin_stackdump() live? >>I searched through the entire cygwin inst tree, but cou

Re: stacktrace from withn an exec upon error condition

Chris, I'm sorry. I missed that suggestion. But I do enjoy jumping through hoops at times. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 17:06 2002-03-28, you wrote: >On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 04:32:36PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > >If you're going to take the time to respond, the least you cou

Re: stacktrace from withn an exec upon error condition

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 04:32:36PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >If you're going to take the time to respond, the least you could do is >give a useful answer. > >Since unlike Chris, I do not know the answer, I'll illustrate how I >discovered it. > >[snip] On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 05:17:51PM -050

Re: stacktrace from withn an exec upon error condition

Chris, If you're going to take the time to respond, the least you could do is give a useful answer. Since unlike Chris, I do not know the answer, I'll illustrate how I discovered it. Hans is correct that there is no prototype for this function in any file under /usr/include, though there i

Problem with globbing and single backslash in expanded variable

I've searched the FAQ & list archives, but didn't find anything that matches this. There's a strange interaction between globbing and expanding a path with a drive-letter-colon-backslash. For the example, I set up three variables pointing to the cygwin/sbin directory, with 0, 1, or 2 backslash

HOWTO DOWNLOAD EVERYTHING (was: RE: "Give me everything" setup option?)

Rob -- Thanks for the information. I'm downloading now. It was the presence of /etc/setup that was messing up my earlier attempts. -Brian Robert Collins wrote: >For the archives > >Downloading *everything* with setup.exe. > >First-off, setup.exe uses information contained in /etc/setup/ t

HOWTO DOWNLOAD EVERYTHING (was: RE: "Give me everything" setup option?)

For the archives Downloading *everything* with setup.exe. First-off, setup.exe uses information contained in /etc/setup/ to determine whats pacakges are not installed, and then looks in your 'local package dir' at *every mirror site you chose* to determine what is missing and needs download

Re: stacktrace from withn an exec upon error condition

At 06:05 PM 3/28/2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 03:13:15PM -0800, Hans Horn wrote: > >I'm afraid not, as I do not know what files to #include so the runtime will > >find cygwin_stackdump(). > >I guess you're out of luck then. A shadowy apparition appears, shrouded in a

Re: stacktrace from withn an exec upon error condition

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 03:13:15PM -0800, Hans Horn wrote: >I'm afraid not, as I do not know what files to #include so the runtime will >find cygwin_stackdump(). I guess you're out of luck then. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http:/

Re: stacktrace from withn an exec upon error condition

Chris, I'm afraid not, as I do not know what files to #include so the runtime will find cygwin_stackdump(). H. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: "Install-Info" not found during installing CYGIN

Charles Wilson wrote: > > Hack Kampbjørn wrote: > > > Note this doesn't happen for wget. I've just checked. > > > > > >>>texinfo. > >>>Should be in base (IMHO). > >>> > >>No! Anything that has info pages should depend on texinfo. That's what > >>dependencies ARE FOR. > >> > > Anything that inst

Re: "Install-Info" not found during installing CYGIN

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 10:48:34AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: > > >Hack Kampbj?rn wrote: > > > >>Note this doesn't happen for wget. I've just checked. >> >> texinfo. Should be in base (IMHO). >>>No! Anything that has info pages should depend on texinfo. That's what >>>dependencies A

Re: stacktrace from withn an exec upon error condition

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 08:44:27AM -0800, Hans Horn wrote: >where does cygwin_stackdump() live? >I searched through the entire cygwin inst tree, but couldn't find any header >where it is defined. > >If it is a function I just invoke, where does it write the trace dump to? >stdout? stderr? I sugge

RE: Dropping ssh connection using keys

Unfortunately, those headers are visible to a lot of people who read the list (Outlook users, anyone else?), so maybe adding the List Archive link to the footer would help to get people to search the archive? > -Original Message- > From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: template handling

http://www.cygwin.com/packages/gcc/ tells you the version of gcc that Cygwin currently uses. That would be 2.95.3. You can find out other versions by looking at www.cygwin.com/packages and selecting the appropriate package. The versions all match the GNU versions of the like packages. I would

Re: bash.exe on Windows XP

At 03:48 PM 3/28/2002, John Robbins wrote: >Dear cygwin, > >I have installed a version of the EGCS compiler as part of a development kit >(NNDK) supplied by NetBurner Inc. of San Diego CA. > >The tool chain has worked perfectly under WIN98 and W2000 but I am getting >an error running bash.exe (as

Re: template handling

Where then would I get this information for gcc? Or if I were to ask this on a gcc list, what is the relationship between Cygwin version numbers and gcc version numbers? (My apology to anyone who gets this twice.) Thanks, Mike. "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote: > > At 03:34 PM 3/28/2002, y

bash.exe on Windows XP

Dear cygwin, I have installed a version of the EGCS compiler as part of a development kit (NNDK) supplied by NetBurner Inc. of San Diego CA. The tool chain has worked perfectly under WIN98 and W2000 but I am getting an error running bash.exe (as called from main.mak) under Windows XP. The error

Re: template handling

At 03:34 PM 3/28/2002, you wrote: >How can I get information on the template handling >capabilities of the latest versions of Cygwin? In >particular, I would like to know if I can define >methods in *.cc files that are compiled, and have >the resulting .o files added to libraries. I do >not want t

template handling

How can I get information on the template handling capabilities of the latest versions of Cygwin? In particular, I would like to know if I can define methods in *.cc files that are compiled, and have the resulting .o files added to libraries. I do not want the definitions in the .h files, or anyth

RE: Dropping ssh connection using keys

It's in the headers, as noted below. Or were you objecting to it's placement? At 03:09 PM 3/28/2002, Harig, Mark A. wrote: Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive:

RE: Dropping ssh connection using keys

BTW, has any thought been given to providing HTML at the end of these messages that provides a "one-click" access to the mailing list archives? much like is already being done with the unsubscribe, bugs, docs and FAQ? > -Original Message- > From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:[E

RE: Dropping ssh connection using keys

Corinna's had allot to say in the past on debugging sshd issues. You might want to review the email list archives to see if any of her previous suggestions help you debug this problem. At 02:46 PM 3/28/2002, Harig, Mark A. wrote: >I'm seeing this problem also (running latest Cygwin and sshd on

RE: Dropping ssh connection using keys

I'm seeing this problem also (running latest Cygwin and sshd on Winnt 4.0, SP6). Maybe someone on the list can provide some pointers on the best way for us to debug this problem (and, ultimately, contribute a patch)? > -Original Message- > From: John Barnard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >

Re: Descriptor passing between process

I'm working on a way to pass file descriptors between processes. I've already got it functioning by using writes to pass the file handle (using get_osfhandle) and the current processId using GetCurrentProcessId the receiving side then calls Duplicate Handle to create the handle. Then I do a cyg

ipc-daemon doen't start as service on boot on my Windows 2000 server

If you can, please help. I made sure that: - my /bin directory (C:\cygwin\bin) is in your system PATH (e.g. set for the entire system from the My Computer properties) (Chuck msg 9/2001) - The PATH is set correctly (Kurt msg 9/2001) Just for kicks i copied cygwin1.dll to C:\WINNT too - The "Pa

Re: bash: more: command not found

> >On Thursday 28 Mar 02, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) writes: > > > David (Starks-Browning), would it be worthwhile to add the "How do I find out > > > what package utility XXX is in?" to the FAQ? > > > >"What packages should I download?" is already there. An even better FAQ entry, at least f

Re: heap_chunk_in_mb fails?

At 06:09 AM 3/28/2002, G.Spagnuolo wrote: >I've 256MB RAM and more than 4GB of free disk space, so I settled the maximum >dimension of the virtual memory at 3GB (under w2k) and the heap_chunk_in_mb at 2GB >(using regedt32). >Nevertheless the bash does not start and gives a "win32 error 8". >The

Re: Time function implementations for cygwin

I think it's fair to say that things that are missing are usually not implemented because no one has contributed them. If you're interested, feel free to take a crack at the functions you require and contribute them. Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc.

Re: bash: more: command not found

On Thursday 28 Mar 02, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) writes: > David (Starks-Browning), would it be worthwhile to add the "How do I find out > what package utility XXX is in?" to the FAQ? "What packages should I download?" is already there. David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/m

Re: Time function implementations for cygwin

Hello, My question was bad asked. Time functions are very usefull for my application. And I would like to know if time functions are not implemented because of unsovable problems with Windows or if they will be implemented in a near feature. Thank you for any response.

Re: bash: more: command not found

Let's keep official Cygwin discussions on the list. Believe it or not, others may have your same problem and actually search the mail list archives to find a solution. Sorry. You assume too much. 'more' is indeed a package, albeit a new one. If it's not an option for you, you're using a mirr

Re: bash: more: command not found

At 11:42 AM 3/28/2002, Milton Quinteros S. wrote: >Hi there. > I've installed the latest version on my XP Pro and the 'more' command >dissapeared. Really? I'm going to ask the dumb question because you didn't provide any information that would make it pointless: did you install the 'more'

bash: more: command not found

Hi there.     I've installed the latest version on my XP Pro and the 'more' command dissapeared.     Please read the following extract.     Thanks.   Administrator@MQUINTEROS ~$ uname -aCYGWIN_NT-5.1 MQUINTEROS 1.3.10(0.51/3/2) 2002-02-25 11:14 i686 unknown   Administrator@MQUINTEROS ~$ ls

I'm having trouble again... Please help me...

I loved this cygwin compiler before my computer crashed, and now I cannot get it to work... I installed from the internet and get no cygwin1.dll file with it. I downloaded the dll from the internet, and it still doesn't work... It gives me this error... $ make gcc -c -Wall -O -g act_comm.c

Re: where can I find /etc/ssmpt/ssmtp.conf sample file?or mannual?

On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 12:38:59AM +0900, jinhyuk choi wrote: > where can I find sample or doc's on it? The README file: /usr/doc/Cygwin/ssmtp-2.38.7.README Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documenta

Re: stacktrace from withn an exec upon error condition

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 06:30:39AM -0800, Hans Horn wrote: >is there a way to create (and print) a procedure traceback from within an >executable that is invoked upon error condition? >This is possible on many other platforms. >I've read about strace, but that seems to be not what I want, as to my

Parse errors with setup.exe

Hello, all, I just wanted to ask is it known issue that new setup version 2.194.2.21 has problems when trying to install from local dir. Parse errors occur (parsing setup.ini) from the very first line. I use WinXP. Using usual user and Administrator user doesn't change anything

RE: Running a bash script using "at" on an NT box

Larry, Spot on, thanks Justin > The first most > likely problem is that your mount table is not system-wide. Start there. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FA

where can I find /etc/ssmpt/ssmtp.conf sample file?or mannual?

I found ssmtp works on command line mannually, but I guess I can join it with mutt MUA so when I want to only send a mail, I won't need any graphical mail agent. but I could not find man pages how to configure ssmtp.conf file and how to make work mutt with ssmtp.exe. where can I find sample or do

Re: Running a bash script using "at" on an NT box

At 10:23 AM 3/28/2002, Justin MacCarthy wrote: >Hi, > >I'm trying to schedule a bash script to run using "at" on a NT4 box >The script is located in /d/test.sh >test.sh is very simple just to test it > >If i type d:\Runscript /d/test.sh then it works fine. > >However I've tried > >at 16:00 /ever

Re: "Install-Info" not found during installing CYGIN

Hack Kampbjørn wrote: > Note this doesn't happen for wget. I've just checked. > > >>>texinfo. >>>Should be in base (IMHO). >>> >>No! Anything that has info pages should depend on texinfo. That's what >>dependencies ARE FOR. >> Anything that installs .info files should have texinfo in its

Re: stacktrace from withn an exec upon error condition

At 10:17 AM 3/28/2002, Hans Horn wrote: >Thanks a lot. >But I'm sorry - I've never dealt with the Win32 API. Don't you have to join >Micro$haft in order to access the MSDN site? >H. No, I didn't. Try http://msdn.microsoft.com/library. Poke around and see what you can find. Hm, try looking st

Re: strace on inetd (was RE: bash failed to initialize on telnet/rsh/ rlogin server)

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 01:09:29AM -0600, Chris Polley wrote: >On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 19:20:19 -0500, you wrote: >>On Wed, Mar 27, 2002@02:20:35PM -0600, Polley Christopher W wrote: >>>Are there more complete instructions to strace besides --help, the >>>Cygwin user guide, or winsup/utils/utils.sgml

Running a bash script using "at" on an NT box

Hi, I'm trying to schedule a bash script to run using "at" on a NT4 box The script is located in /d/test.sh test.sh is very simple just to test it If i type d:\Runscript /d/test.sh then it works fine. However I've tried at 16:00 /every:M,T,W,Th,F,S,Su "cmd /c d:\RunScript.bat /d/test.sh" It

Re: stacktrace from withn an exec upon error condition

Thanks a lot. But I'm sorry - I've never dealt with the Win32 API. Don't you have to join Micro$haft in order to access the MSDN site? H. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin

Re: strace on inetd (was RE: bash failed to initialize on telnet/rsh/ rlogin server)

At 02:09 AM 3/28/2002, Chris Polley wrote: >Well, inetd is running from the system account (18). The user account >I was using to run strace has local (machine) administrator privileges >(i.e. is in the machine's "Administrators" group.) Is this >sufficiently privileged? No. Look at inetutil

Re: stacktrace from withn an exec upon error condition

At 09:30 AM 3/28/2002, Hans Horn wrote: >Dear all, > >is there a way to create (and print) a procedure traceback from within an >executable that is invoked upon error condition? >This is possible on many other platforms. >I've read about strace, but that seems to be not what I want, as to my >unde

ntsec, ssh and cygwin

On Thursday 28 Mar 02, Daniel Holtkamp writes: > Hello everyone, > >I´m using cygwin for some time now but today i ran into a problem. >I´ve got a user-request that they want to be able to scp files to a >host without entering their password everytime. No problem i >thought, deplo

Re: ntsec, ssh and cygwin

At 09:42 AM 3/28/2002, Daniel Holtkamp wrote: >domain-user and not the local computer user. I reinstalled Cygwin >several times and always ran into the same problem. (Domain user is >not included in /etc/passwd ... only the local ones). Add the domain user(s) to the /etc/passwd file.

Re: "Install-Info" not found during installing CYGIN

Hack wrote: [...] > Note this doesn't happen for wget. I've just checked. [...] > As you can see in /etc/postinstall/wget.sh.done when wget is > installed/updated it will install the info files only if texinfo is > already installed (wget does not depend/require texinfo). Otherwise it's > texi

ntsec, ssh and cygwin

Hello everyone, I´m using cygwin for some time now but today i ran into a problem. I´ve got a user-request that they want to be able to scp files to a host without entering their password everytime. No problem i thought, deploy the public-key on the server and that should do it, bu

stacktrace from withn an exec upon error condition

Dear all, is there a way to create (and print) a procedure traceback from within an executable that is invoked upon error condition? This is possible on many other platforms. I've read about strace, but that seems to be not what I want, as to my understanding the executable needs to be run under

Time function implementations for CYGWIN

Hello, I would like to know if functions like "clock_gettime", "clock_getres", "nanosleep", time_out for "select" or "sem_wait" functions, are implemented in CYGWIN. Thank you for any response. Herve BAILLY -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple B

Missing libm.a in mingw-runtime-1.2-1.tar.gz

Hello, It seems that /usr/lib/mingw/libm.a is missing from the mingw-runtime-1.2-1.tar.gz package. This make compiling with -mno-cygwin and -lm use the cygwin /usr/lib/libm.a and hence yields to a cygwin1.dll dependency in the resulting executable which not what we want with -mno-cygwin... The o

Re: New package: keychain-1.8-1 available for test

Is there any objection to remove the test label from this package? Has anybody tested it? Are there any problems that should be addresses before releasing it as stable? Hack 8-) Hack Kampbjørn wrote: > > TEST RELEASE. PLEASE test that this new package works as expected and > doesn't break anyt

Re: "Install-Info" not found during installing CYGIN

Robert Collins wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 10:10 PM > > To: Torsten Giebl > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: "Install-Info" not found during installing CYGIN > > > > > >

Re: rxvt / telnet / emacs

On Wednesday 27 Mar 02, Christopher Glaeser writes: > > Do you have a DISPLAY environment variable set? If so, unset it. > > Perfect! Many thanks. > > BTW, I don't know how the cygwin FAQ is updated, but a google search of the > cygwin/telnet/emacs returned many hits with no solutions. Appare

RE: "Install-Info" not found during installing CYGIN

> -Original Message- > From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 10:10 PM > To: Torsten Giebl > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: "Install-Info" not found during installing CYGIN > > > Torsten, > > > I install CYGWIN with

heap_chunk_in_mb fails?

I've 256MB RAM and more than 4GB of free disk space, so I settled the maximum dimension of the virtual memory at 3GB (under w2k) and the heap_chunk_in_mb at 2GB (using regedt32). Nevertheless the bash does not start and gives a "win32 error 8". The maximum value accepted for heap_chunk_in_mb (fi

Re: "Install-Info" not found during installing CYGIN

Torsten, > I install CYGWIN with the following packages : [long list w/o texinfo] > First the Setup.exe untgz and unbz2 the selected Packages into the install dir, > then it starts some SH Window. In that window i see often the message > "Install-Info" not found. Is there a package i forgott t

"Install-Info" not found during installing CYGIN

Hello CYGWIN Users ! I install CYGWIN with the following packages : Admin NOCHANGE Archive zip unzip Base NOCHANGE Database NOCHANGE Devel autoconf automake binutils bison ctags cvs flex gcc gdb gettext libtool make mingw-runtime Doc man newlib-man Editors vim Games NOCHANG

Re: Cygwin 1.3.10 : problems with make (3.79.1) when using windows mode (--win32 switch)

Hello Falser, Thursday, March 28, 2002, 9:50:39 AM, you wrote: FK> Hello. FK> Since my upgrade to the latest make and cygwin a previously working makefile stopped to work. FK> The make program tries to execute the commandline directly and cygwin execvp() could not find the file. FK> The comm

Cygwin 1.3.10 : problems with make (3.79.1) when using windows mode (--win32 switch)

Hello. Since my upgrade to the latest make and cygwin a previously working makefile stopped to work. The make program tries to execute the commandline directly and cygwin execvp() could not find the file. The command line is in the form "c:\directory\sub\prog parameter ... " and the called p