Still trouble with IPC/cygipc

2004-02-13 Thread Frank Wuebbeling
Hi, I'm still having trouble understanding how IPC is supposed to be working now. I used to be running apache 2.0, but that fails now due to lots of IPC problems. cygcheck tells me my installation has cygipc version 2.03-2, cygwin is at 1.5.7-1, and yes, I reinstalled cygwin after installing cygip

20040214 snapshot is better (was DO NOT USE the 20040213 snapshot)

2004-02-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
it clear that the current snapshot is broken. > >Apologies for any inconvenience I caused to anyone who downloaded it. The 20040214 snapshot passes the test suite, so it is demonstrably better than the 20040213 snapshot. Please try it out. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin

Re: Question reg the kernel location

2004-02-13 Thread Brian Dessent
Lakshmy Ramaswamy wrote: > I am new to cygwin. I wanted to install ALSA in Cygwin but I am getting an > error which states that I need to specify the kernel location since the > program is unable to find the kernel location. Specifically it is unable to > find: > checking for kernel version... The

Re: Question reg the kernel location

2004-02-13 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:48 PM 2/13/2004, Lakshmy Ramaswamy you wrote: >Hi, >I am new to cygwin. I wanted to install ALSA in Cygwin but I am getting an error >which states that I need to specify the kernel location since the program is unable >to find the kernel location. Specifically it is unable to find: >checkin

Question reg the kernel location

2004-02-13 Thread Lakshmy Ramaswamy
Hi, I am new to cygwin. I wanted to install ALSA in Cygwin but I am getting an error which states that I need to specify the kernel location since the program is unable to find the kernel location. Specifically it is unable to find: checking for kernel version... The file /usr/src/linux/include

DO NOT USE the 20040213 snapshot (was cygwin1-20040213 hoses emacs 'desktop')

2004-02-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:45:47PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 06:58:42PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>The above messages might indicate that there is more than one version of >>the cygwin DLL on your system. > >Sometimes it does. In this case, it indicates a pro

Re: cygwin1-20040213 hoses emacs 'desktop'

2004-02-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 06:58:42PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >The above messages might indicate that there is more than one version of >the cygwin DLL on your system. Sometimes it does. In this case, it indicates a problem with the snapshot. I did a fair amount of testing on this version o

RE: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-13 Thread Larry Hall
At 06:27 PM 2/13/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: >Larry Hall writes: >>Bakken, Luke writes: >>>$ ls -l zcat* >>>lrwxrwxrwx1 lukebUsers 19 Sep 21 16:29 zcat.exe -> >>>gzip.exe >>>$ rm zcat.exe >>>$ ln gzip.exe zcat.exe > >Thanks, Luke, now I can use zcat from the Windows command

cygutils: mkshortcut patch - show window norm, min, max

2004-02-13 Thread Dick Repasky
Attached is a patch to mkshortcut in the cygutils package that adds a commandline option for specifying how the new window for the launched application should be appear - normal, minimized or maximized. The patch was made against cygutils version 1.2.4. I hope that it is included in the next rel

Re: latex painfully slow

2004-02-13 Thread Larry Hall
At 06:25 PM 2/13/2004, John M. Adams you wrote: >Dear Friends, > >Yesterday I updated cygwin and now latex is amazingly slow. By this I >mean that its output comes out about 1 line per second. You know, >stuff like this: > >.. >(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref/hyperref.sty >(/usr/share/texmf/

Re: cygwin1-20040213 hoses emacs 'desktop'

2004-02-13 Thread Thomas L Roche
way, could you please rename it to something > that doesn't end in .dll (e.g., cygwin1.dll-old), and, just to make > sure, make it non-executable? bash-2.05b$ ls -AlF cygwin* -rwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administ None 1109385 Jan 30 19:34 cygwin1-1.5.7-1.dll* -rwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administ None 1120

Re: debugging unzip

2004-02-13 Thread Thomas L Roche
cygwin1-20040213 no fix for unzip I reran gdb --args ./usr/bin/unzip.exe /d/eclipse/zips/wsa-jdk-20040210_1925-WB213-AD-V512D-W5.zip from an xterm started with the snapshot. Failure was similar to previous, though it seemed to take longer: > inflating: runtimes/base_v5/installedA

Re: cygwin1-20040213 hoses emacs 'desktop'

2004-02-13 Thread Thomas L Roche
hanks for your assistance! On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Thomas L Roche wrote: >> After installing >> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin1-20040213.dll.bz2 >> and running >> emacs --debug-init & >> from an xterm, I am unable to open files using 'desktop' at sta

Re: CVS server install on Cygwin with SSH Authentification on Windows XP Pro : author still the same

2004-02-13 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Flo wrote: > Hello, > > I made a CVS server install on Cygwin with SSH Authentification on > Windows XP Pro. I made 3 users on Windows XP : Administrateur, flo, max > and a "cvs" group with these users. I gived for each user the same .ssh > directory in the "home" with the s

Re: cygwin1-20040213 hoses emacs 'desktop'

2004-02-13 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Tom, Wow, this is turning into a one-on-one dialog here... :-) On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Thomas L Roche wrote: > After installing > > http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin1-20040213.dll.bz2 > > and running > > emacs --debug-init & > > from an xterm, I am unable to open f

Re: debugging unzip

2004-02-13 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Thomas L Roche wrote: > How to setup gdb (and cygwin1.dll) to catch unzip problems like > > > inflating: > > eclipse/plugins/com.ibm.etools.utc/IBMUTC/IBMUTC.ear/UTC.war/WEB-INF/classes/com/ibm/etools/utc/property/PropertyFormat.class > > >1011 [main] unzip 1120 cmalloc

RE: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-13 Thread jamshid
Larry Hall writes: >Bakken, Luke writes: >>$ ls -l zcat* >>lrwxrwxrwx1 lukebUsers 19 Sep 21 16:29 zcat.exe -> >>gzip.exe >>$ rm zcat.exe >>$ ln gzip.exe zcat.exe Thanks, Luke, now I can use zcat from the Windows command line. >Sure, that's another option but one that eats up disk

latex painfully slow

2004-02-13 Thread John M. Adams
Dear Friends, Yesterday I updated cygwin and now latex is amazingly slow. By this I mean that its output comes out about 1 line per second. You know, stuff like this: .. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref/hyperref.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref/pd1enc.def) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/late

cygwin1-20040213 hoses emacs 'desktop'

2004-02-13 Thread Thomas L Roche
After installing http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin1-20040213.dll.bz2 and running emacs --debug-init & from an xterm, I am unable to open files using 'desktop' at startup. On first desktop load, Emacs reports Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Doing vfork"

Re: debugging unzip

2004-02-13 Thread Thomas L Roche
Thomas L Roche 02/13/2004 04:47 PM > How to setup gdb (and cygwin1.dll) to catch unzip problems like > > inflating: eclipse/plugins/com.ibm.etools.utc/IBMUTC/IBMUTC.ear/UTC.war/WEB-INF/classes/com/ibm/etools/utc/property/PropertyFormat.class > >1011 [main] unzip 1120 cmalloc: cmalloc re

CVS server install on Cygwin with SSH Authentification on Windows XP Pro : author still the same

2004-02-13 Thread Flo
Hello, I made a CVS server install on Cygwin with SSH Authentification on Windows XP Pro. I made 3 users on Windows XP : Administrateur, flo, max and a "cvs" group with these users. I gived for each user the same .ssh directory in the "home" with the same SSH key. I succesfully connect to the serv

Re: cygwin movemail file truncation

2004-02-13 Thread Larry Hall
Movemail is part of the Cygwin Emacs and XEmacs packages so the Cygwin package maintainer will know about this problem from this thread. However, it sounds to me like this is a general Win32 problem. I would think that the bug fix would need to be pushed upstream too. It's probably best to re

debugging unzip

2004-02-13 Thread Thomas L Roche
How to setup gdb (and cygwin1.dll) to catch unzip problems like > inflating: eclipse/plugins/com.ibm.etools.utc/IBMUTC/IBMUTC.ear/UTC.war/WEB-INF/classes/com/ibm/etools/utc/property/PropertyFormat.class >1011 [main] unzip 1120 cmalloc: cmalloc returned NULL > Program received signal SI

PATCH to get bc 1.06-1 to build with readline support under Cygwin

2004-02-13 Thread Francis Litterio
I installed the bc source package (bc-1.06-1-src.tar.bz2) and configured it to build with readline support as follows: cd /usr/src/bc-1.06-1 ./configure --with-readline --prefix=/usr/local The build fails with a syntax error related to the readline support: $ make ... gcc -DHAVE_C

Re: cygwin movemail file truncation

2004-02-13 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Peter, Please make sure your mailer doesn't quote raw e-mail addresses in replies. Let's not make the spam harvesters' life easier! On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Peter Wisnovsky wrote: > Ah, ok, thanks, that fixed it. However running with a binmode home directory > will break other things, since everyth

Re: Installing minimal packages for gcc only

2004-02-13 Thread Josh Padilla
Thanks Igor. I followed your setup instructions, and I'm now working with the gcc compiler. Thanks, Josh Padilla Citrus College Glendora, CA. Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Josh Padilla wrote: > > > I've just started up with cygwin. I'd to install only the absolute minimum > >

RE: Kill -9 PID gives Operation not permitted error

2004-02-13 Thread Parthiv Shah
thank you, /bin/kill -f PID worked !! Parthiv -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 3:24 PM To: Parthiv Shah Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Kill -9 PID gives Operation not permitted error On F

Re: cygwin movemail file truncation

2004-02-13 Thread Peter Wisnovsky
Ah, ok, thanks, that fixed it. However running with a binmode home directory will break other things, since everything in there is generally a text file. Who maintains the cygwin compile of stuff like emacs movemail? I'm not sure where I can file a bug... Peter - Original Message - From:

Re: Kill -9 PID gives Operation not permitted error

2004-02-13 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Parthiv Shah wrote: > Hi, > I am starting a process from cygwin on windows and I can see the PID in > "ps -ef" command. when I try to kill this PID with kill -9 PID it gives me > error that "operation not permitted" > I start the process with ./application.exe on command line

Re: Installing minimal packages for gcc only

2004-02-13 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Josh Padilla wrote: > I've just started up with cygwin. I'd to install only the absolute minimum > number of packages neccesary to do first year c/c++ student programming under > gcc. Is there a document/website which goes into detailed discussion of each > cygwin package? >

Kill -9 PID gives Operation not permitted error

2004-02-13 Thread Parthiv Shah
Hi, I am starting a process from cygwin on windows and I can see the PID in "ps -ef" command. when I try to kill this PID with kill -9 PID it gives me error that "operation not permitted" I start the process with ./application.exe on command line of cygwin. thanks, Parthiv -- Unsubscribe info:

Installing minimal packages for gcc only

2004-02-13 Thread Josh Padilla
I've just started up with cygwin. I'd to install only the absolute minimum number of packages neccesary to do first year c/c++ student programming under gcc. Is there a document/website which goes into detailed discussion of each cygwin package? Thanks, Josh Padilla Citrus College Glendora,CA

RE: Updated cygwin today and now cvs doesn't work

2004-02-13 Thread Chuck Irvine
Very sorry. User error. I had a typo in my .cvsrc file. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck Irvine Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 2:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Updated cygwin today and now cvs doesn't work I just upgraded my

Re: Where is emacs & vi in Cygwin

2004-02-13 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, doug foxvog wrote: > > [snip] > Also, "vi" in Cygwin is a symbolic link to an executable named > "vim.exe", so you'll have to invoke it as "vim". ^ from a DOS prompt Sorry about the confusi

Re: cygwin movemail file truncation

2004-02-13 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:31 PM 2/13/2004, Peter Wisnovsky you wrote: >Hi! I'm trying to figure out a problem I seem to be having with cygwin >movemail, installed in > >/usr/sbin/emacs/21.2/i686-pc-cygwin/movemail > >My mail directory for procmail/fetchmail is ~/usr/mail. HOME is >/users/pwisnovsky. /users is moun

Re: Where is emacs & vi in Cygwin

2004-02-13 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, doug foxvog wrote: > Hi! > > I just downloaded cygwin-1.5.7-1 and set it up, including > everything and did not find either emacs or vi. I haven't > checked to see what else is missing. Is there some other > file to download to get these editors? > > [I downloaded from the N

Updated cygwin today and now cvs doesn't work

2004-02-13 Thread Chuck Irvine
I just upgraded my cygwin installation, that is, invokded setup.exe, went to a mirror site, and refreshed my existing applicatons. Now I'm having problems with cvs. 1. When I invoke cvs (local), with "cvs co hibernate-vocabulary", I get: cvs update: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such

Re: select() hangs sometimes, for TCP connections

2004-02-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 08:28:36PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Feb 13 09:32, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 04:27:19AM -0800, Patrick Samson wrote: >>>Problem: sometimes select() doesn't return. >>> >>>Context: I run a DB replication scenario, with cron, everything 5 mn.

cygwin movemail file truncation

2004-02-13 Thread Peter Wisnovsky
Hi! I'm trying to figure out a problem I seem to be having with cygwin movemail, installed in /usr/sbin/emacs/21.2/i686-pc-cygwin/movemail My mail directory for procmail/fetchmail is ~/usr/mail. HOME is /users/pwisnovsky. /users is mounted from C:/Documents and Settings in textmode: c:\D

Re: select() hangs sometimes, for TCP connections

2004-02-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 13 09:32, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 04:27:19AM -0800, Patrick Samson wrote: > >Problem: sometimes select() doesn't return. > > > >Context: I run a DB replication scenario, with cron, everything 5 mn. > >There is no change in the DB, so the scenario is always the sam

setlogmask() not limiting log messages?

2004-02-13 Thread Ingles, Raymond
I've been working on getting a program of mine to run with cygrunsrv, and I've noticed that setlogmask() doesn't seem to limit the types of messages that make it into the event log. This is a problem for me because it ends up logging some passwords. The following message leads me to believe tha

RE: Where is emacs & vi in Cygwin

2004-02-13 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html That would be monumentally helpful. Especially this part: Run cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out and include that file as an attachment in your report. Please do not compress the output. Just attach it as a straight text file so that it can be

Where is emacs & vi in Cygwin

2004-02-13 Thread doug foxvog
Hi! I just downloaded cygwin-1.5.7-1 and set it up, including everything and did not find either emacs or vi. I haven't checked to see what else is missing. Is there some other file to download to get these editors? [I downloaded from the NASA site & had the same result when i picked another mir

Re: localtime_r not returning local time

2004-02-13 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:11 AM 2/13/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: >YEA! - I need this fix since I use the localtime feature of perl and have >been stuck with 5.8.0 (and rolling back >to 5.6 required complete re-installation of all other CPAN modules) - which >had been removed from setup. > >Anyhow THANK YOU!!!

Re: Cygwin xemacs 21.4.14 fonts broken

2004-02-13 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> "Edwin" == Edwin Goei writes: Edwin> I am installing xemacs on cygwin on a new PC and want to get a smaller Edwin> font size like my old PC so more text can fit on the screen. Edwin> I recently installed cygwin 1.5.7 and the xemacs 21.4.14 that came with Edwin> it, but the f

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xemacs-21.4.14-2/xemacs-tags-21.4.14-2/xemacs-emacs-common-21.4.14-2

2004-02-13 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> "Reini" == Reini Urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Reini> Karr, David schrieb: >> Now that Xemacs/Cygwin is installable from "cygwin-setup", what is the >> difference between installing it from this, as opposed to using the >> "xemacs-setup" that we get from xemacs.org? If I

Re: localtime_r not returning local time

2004-02-13 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Christopher wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:40:12PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >>Yitzchak wrote: >>>On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 01:10:03PM -0800, Rafael Kitover wrote: Would it be a lot of overhead to have something like tzset be called in the bootstrap code for launching Cygwin program

Re: localtime_r not returning local time

2004-02-13 Thread Brian . Kelly
YEA! - I need this fix since I use the localtime feature of perl and have been stuck with 5.8.0 (and rolling back to 5.6 required complete re-installation of all other CPAN modules) - which had been removed from setup. Anyhow THANK YOU!!! ( I know I should be a nice guy and test the snapshot - b

Re: select() hangs sometimes, for TCP connections

2004-02-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 04:27:19AM -0800, Patrick Samson wrote: >Problem: sometimes select() doesn't return. > >Context: I run a DB replication scenario, with cron, everything 5 mn. >There is no change in the DB, so the scenario is always the same. Most >of the time, it works. But eventually, aft

Problems with Emacs - Resolution(?)

2004-02-13 Thread Charles Plager
To summarize: Due to (self-inflicted) problems, I did a fresh install of cygwin to 1.5.7.1. Emacs started behaving very strange: * Random crashes * Suddenly taking up 100% of cpu This happened with all emacs versions I could get my hands on: * 21.2.9 * 21.2.11 * 21.2.12 Earlier this week, I down

Re: OpenGL speed problems under bash vs. DOS on Dell m60

2004-02-13 Thread Andre Bleau
"Robert J. Bobrow" wrote: Cygwin OpenGL folks, I have been having problems with the latest version of Cygwin on a Dell M60. I have a piece of Java (JOGL) based visualization code that works fine (renders at ~14 frames/second) on other machines, both laptops and desktops. On the M60 with the new

select() hangs sometimes, for TCP connections

2004-02-13 Thread Patrick Samson
Problem: sometimes select() doesn't return. Context: I run a DB replication scenario, with cron, everything 5 mn. There is no change in the DB, so the scenario is always the same. Most of the time, it works. But eventually, after some time (may be some minutes or hours), a process A keeps waiting

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xemacs-21.4.14-2/xemacs-tags-21.4.14-2/xemacs-emacs-common-21.4.14-2

2004-02-13 Thread Reini Urban
Karr, David schrieb: Now that Xemacs/Cygwin is installable from "cygwin-setup", what is the difference between installing it from this, as opposed to using the "xemacs-setup" that we get from xemacs.org? If I've been updating my installation over time from "xemacs-setup", what will happen the next

Re: localtime_r not returning local time

2004-02-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:40:12PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >Yitzchak wrote: >>On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 01:10:03PM -0800, Rafael Kitover wrote: >>>Would it be a lot of overhead to have something like tzset be called in >>>the bootstrap code for launching Cygwin programs? Or maybe just have a >

Re: localtime_r not returning local time

2004-02-13 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Yitzchak wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 01:10:03PM -0800, Rafael Kitover wrote: >> Would it be a lot of overhead to have something like tzset be called in the >> bootstrap code for launching Cygwin programs? Or maybe just have a DLL global >> default, based on windows time zone, and just allow p