Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lilypond-2.6.4-1

Hi lilypond-internals.info in /usr/share/info/lilypond doesn't seem to be a valid info file. Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: Why is setup.exe so difficult? Am I missing something?

Christopher Faylor wrote: > The 'now-abandoned "install it all at once"' problem was unabandoned two > setup releases ago (I believe), recent advice notwithstanding. Maybe > the setup developers will correct me if I'm wrong but AFAIK, there is no > longer any reason to split a cygwin install into

Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed

Volker Quetschke wrote: I thought so, it was only the parent. Unfortunately the client shown from ps (pid 1780) or the client from task manager (pid 480 and shown with 100% cpu) were not attachable to. There were no other relevant processes. s/client/child/ Doh! -- PGP/GPG key (ID: 0x9F8A785D)

Re: Why is setup.exe so difficult? Am I missing something?

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:05:27PM -0500, Rob Hatcherson wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I'll reiterate that the mirrors list is checked twice a day for >>accuracy so the only way that a mirror could be out-of-date is if you >>don't specify it from the list of mirrors but, instead, use one that

Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed

(snip) PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDSTIME COMMAND 512 1 512512 con 1003 23:52:18 /usr/bin/rxvt 680 512 6807520 1003 23:52:18 /usr/bin/bash 2324 6802324 23360 1003 23:52:23 /usr/bin/bash 2492 12492

Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 09:36:39PM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote: >I got another hang. This time on one of my own systems so that I might be >able >to reproduce it better. > >The symptoms are different this time. I have a sh.exe running on 100% cpu >load in the task manager with PID 480 that is no

Re: Why is setup.exe so difficult? Am I missing something?

Christopher Faylor wrote: I'll reiterate that the mirrors list is checked twice a day for accuracy so the only way that a mirror could be out-of-date is if you don't specify it from the list of mirrors but, instead, use one that isn't in the list. Maybe setup.exe could check to see if the mirro

RE: Why is setup.exe so difficult? Am I missing something?

> -Original Message- > From: Matt England > Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 9:03 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Why is setup.exe so difficult? Am I missing something? > > [Warning: This is a complete flame of cygwin's setup.exe. > After being a long-time

RE: Why is setup.exe so difficult? Am I missing something?

> -Original Message- > From: Matt England > Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 9:03 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Why is setup.exe so difficult? Am I missing something? > > [Warning: This is a complete flame of cygwin's setup.exe. > After being a long-time

Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed

I got another hang. This time on one of my own systems so that I might be able to reproduce it better. The symptoms are different this time. I have a sh.exe running on 100% cpu load in the task manager with PID 480 that is not mentioned in the ps output. The usual "ls /proc/*/fd" doesn't help thi

Re: Why is setup.exe so difficult? Am I missing something?

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 03:20:48PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >If you don't see subversion in the list then it means the mirror you >selected is not a full mirror. It is my understanding that all the >mirrors presented in the stock list are supposed to be full mirrors that >are all within a day o

Re: ssh tunnel and permission denied

Leonard Bouchet wrote: > # Step 1: open the ssh tunnel > $ ssh -fNL 139:myserver:139 [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm surprised that this works. Normally if you try this on a windows machine the port forwarding setup will fail because the local SMB service on that machine is already listening on 139, and s

Re: Windows update vs. cygrunsrv

Eric Blake wrote: > I don't know it this was unique to my machine, but am > reporting it in case anyone else runs into the same > issue. When running Microsoft update today, on Win2k, > the patch for Security Update for DirectX 9 for Windows > 2000 (KB904706) hung during installation, with an > i

Re: Why is setup.exe so difficult? Am I missing something?

Matt England wrote: > * Installing/updating a subversion package > > I want to install or update a subversion package for my cygwin system. I > tried for about 15 minutes to figure out how to do this (and get a specific > rev of svn--1.2.3-1) to no avail. The organization of the modes and views

Re: mkdir -p and EROFS

> Thanks for reporting this. It is indeed a bug in > coreutils/lib/mkdir-p.c. It can be triggered by other errors too. > This is hard to write a test case for, but I'd like to fix things. > Does the following patch work for you? > 2005-10-12 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * mkdir-p

Re: mkdir -p and EROFS

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) writes: > The algorithm change between 5.3.0 and 5.90 in lib/mkdir-p.c to > try mkdir() first instead of stat(), and key off of EEXIST, breaks > when mkdir() fails with EROFS on an intermediate directory when > the writable directory has been mounted inside a read-on

patch cygrunsrv for running native win32 applications

Hi, Is it also possible to patch the cygrunsrv service installer for running native win32.exe? Means like if you run a windows command/app in bash is executed there must be also a way to do it in cygrunsrv. I know there are extra utilities for windows like srvany but i like the command line inter

Re: struct msghdr in socket.h is wrong

On Oct 12 15:17, Sam Steingold wrote: > cyswin/socket.h: > > struct msghdr > { > void* msg_name; /* Socket name */ > int msg_namelen;/* Length of name */ > struct iovec * msg_iov;/* Data blocks

Re: Windows update vs. cygrunsrv

Mike Stockman wrote: Eric Blake wrote: I don't know it this was unique to my machine, but am reporting it in case anyone else runs into the same issue. When running Microsoft update today, on Win2k, the patch for Security Update for DirectX 9 for Windows 2000 (KB904706) hung during installatio

Re: .exe suffix from gcc and friends

Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jason Pyeron on 10/11/2005 9:19 PM: Is there a way to disable the .exe suffix when producing output from gcc, ld, etc? You can try the brute force method: 'mv foo.exe bar.' (only works on non-managed mounts). But

Re: mkdir -p and EROFS

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) wrote: > > The algorithm change between 5.3.0 and 5.90 in lib/mkdir-p.c to > > try mkdir() first instead of stat(), and key off of EEXIST, breaks > > when mkdir() fails with EROFS on an intermediate directory when > > the writable directory has been mounted inside a

Re: Setup fails!

> > "The procedure entry point getline could not be located in the dynamic link > library cygwin1.dll!" What was the title of the popup box (in other words, which app reported this message)? getline() is not present in 1.5.18, only in snapshots. Did you, perchance, install coreutils-5.90-2, wh

struct msghdr in socket.h is wrong

cyswin/socket.h: struct msghdr { void* msg_name; /* Socket name */ int msg_namelen;/* Length of name */ struct iovec * msg_iov;/* Data blocks */ int msg_iovlen;

Re: Setup fails!

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 04:50:47PM +, Roland Bengtsson wrote: >I tried to download the latest release of cygwin as I want to use lxr for >Linux. > >I run setup. choose a mirror and select to install the Devel category. >The downloading seems to go fine but after a while a dialog is shown: > >"

Re: Setup fails!

Roland Bengtsson wrote: I tried to download the latest release of cygwin as I want to use lxr for Linux. I run setup. choose a mirror and select to install the Devel category. The downloading seems to go fine but after a while a dialog is shown: "The procedure entry point getline could not be l

Setup fails!

I tried to download the latest release of cygwin as I want to use lxr for Linux. I run setup. choose a mirror and select to install the Devel category. The downloading seems to go fine but after a while a dialog is shown: "The procedure entry point getline could not be located in the dynamic link

Re: Why is setup.exe so difficult? Am I missing something?

Matt England wrote: Best regards, and thanks in advance for any help. From what I've seen of the responses so far, you've received some good advice about things to try to alleviate some (all?) of your difficulties. I'm sure others could suggest more but it may be more beneficial to the l

Re: mkdir -p and EROFS

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 07:45:40PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) wrote: >> The algorithm change between 5.3.0 and 5.90 in lib/mkdir-p.c to >> try mkdir() first instead of stat(), and key off of EEXIST, breaks >> when mkdir() fails with EROFS on an intermediate directory

Re: How to install Subversion 1.2.3-1?

Matt England wrote: I am trying to install Subversion 1.2.3-1 on my cygwin system. I am not having any success with setup.exe (I plan to post a separate email regarding setup.exe issues). I tried downloading and extracting the following package: http://mirror.calvin.edu/cygwin/release/subver

Re: Windows update vs. cygrunsrv

Eric Blake wrote: I don't know it this was unique to my machine, but am reporting it in case anyone else runs into the same issue. When running Microsoft update today, on Win2k, the patch for Security Update for DirectX 9 for Windows 2000 (KB904706) hung during installation, with an instance of

ssh tunnel and permission denied

Hi all, I'm trying to configure smb over ssh with cygwin and have some trouble. I can't access my smb drive through cygwin when I'm mounting it throught the ssh tunnel. Here are the steps I follow: # Step 1: open the ssh tunnel $ ssh -fNL 139:myserver:139 [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Step 2: connect

Re: mkdir -p and EROFS

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) wrote: > The algorithm change between 5.3.0 and 5.90 in lib/mkdir-p.c to > try mkdir() first instead of stat(), and key off of EEXIST, breaks > when mkdir() fails with EROFS on an intermediate directory when > the writable directory has been mounted inside a read-only

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lilypond-2.6.4-1

I have updated the LilyPond package for the new upstream version 2.6.4. This fixes several smallish bugs, amongst which the annoying absolute input file name bug, and some Cygwin packaging bugs. Enjoy, Jan. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin

Re: Unexpected File Name Too Long Error With #includes

All, To recap my original post of 08/17/2005 on this issue, I had a situation where I was trying to #include a fairly long path in a C program. If the full path was given in-line, then the #include succeeded. If part of the path was given in the source, and the prefix was given as a -I opti

Re: Windows update vs. cygrunsrv

> > I don't know it this was unique to my machine, but am > > reporting it in case anyone else runs into the same > > issue. When running Microsoft update today, on Win2k, > > the patch for Security Update for DirectX 9 for Windows > > 2000 (KB904706) hung during installation, with an > > instance

Re: Windows update vs. cygrunsrv

Eric Blake wrote: I don't know it this was unique to my machine, but am reporting it in case anyone else runs into the same issue. When running Microsoft update today, on Win2k, the patch for Security Update for DirectX 9 for Windows 2000 (KB904706) hung during installation, with an instance of

Re: Why is setup.exe so difficult? Am I missing something?

Matt England wrote: > I find cygwin's setup.exe extremely difficult to understand, and over the years I've used it, I have found it somewhat buggy (unless the "bugs" I find are really just "features" that I don't understand). The biggest question: why do myself and everyone else in my softwar

Re: Windows update vs. cygrunsrv

On Oct 12 15:45, Eric Blake wrote: > I don't know it this was unique to my machine, but am > reporting it in case anyone else runs into the same > issue. When running Microsoft update today, on Win2k, > the patch for Security Update for DirectX 9 for Windows > 2000 (KB904706) hung during installat

Re: Windows update vs. cygrunsrv

Eric Blake wrote: When running Microsoft update today, on Win2k, the patch for Security Update for DirectX 9 for Windows 2000 (KB904706) hung during installation, with an instance of cygrunsrv hogging 100% CPU, until I had stopped every last one of my cygrunsrv processes. I don't know what the

Re: Why is setup.exe so difficult? Am I missing something?

Matt: You wrote: > I find cygwin's setup.exe extremely difficult to understand, and over the years I've used it, I have found it > somewhat buggy (unless the "bugs" I find are really just "features" that I don't understand). My personal experience of late has been that the setup app isn't th

Windows update vs. cygrunsrv

I don't know it this was unique to my machine, but am reporting it in case anyone else runs into the same issue. When running Microsoft update today, on Win2k, the patch for Security Update for DirectX 9 for Windows 2000 (KB904706) hung during installation, with an instance of cygrunsrv hogging 10

mkdir -p and EROFS

The algorithm change between 5.3.0 and 5.90 in lib/mkdir-p.c to try mkdir() first instead of stat(), and key off of EEXIST, breaks when mkdir() fails with EROFS on an intermediate directory when the writable directory has been mounted inside a read-only tree. For example, on cygwin: $ mkdir -p //E

Re: mkdir(2) bug [Was: please test: coreutils-5.90-2]

> > On Oct 12 06:58, Eric Blake wrote: > > > I see the following bugs: > > > > > > $ ./foo // # should fail with EEXIST, not EROFS; no Windows call made > > > > We had this already. There's no such thing as a "correct" order of error > > messages. EROFS is as correct as EEXIST. If coreutils

Re: How to install Subversion 1.2.3-1?

Matt England wrote: At 10/12/2005 09:03 AM, Chris Taylor wrote: Matt England wrote: Well, the standard answer you're going to get back is 'use setup'. I've just tested it (with setup) and it installed fine. More useful would be your email on the problems you have with setup, in detail, and t

Re: Why is setup.exe so difficult? Am I missing something?

Matt England wrote: The biggest question: why do myself and everyone else in my software development group that I manage (as well as everyone else with whom I've spoken over the years regarding cygwin) find cygwin's setup.exe so perplexing? I used to find it confusing, and difficult to us

Re: mkdir(2) bug [Was: please test: coreutils-5.90-2]

> On Oct 12 06:58, Eric Blake wrote: > > I see the following bugs: > > > > $ ./foo // # should fail with EEXIST, not EROFS; no Windows call made > > We had this already. There's no such thing as a "correct" order of error > messages. EROFS is as correct as EEXIST. If coreutils don't allow >

Re: mkdir(2) bug [Was: please test: coreutils-5.90-2]

On Oct 12 06:58, Eric Blake wrote: > I see the following bugs: > > $ ./foo // # should fail with EEXIST, not EROFS; no Windows call made > //: 30 Read-only file system > $ strace ./foo // | grep -B3 mkdir >65 18986 [main] foo 3788 build_fh_pc: fh 0x6115AE1C >34 19020 [main] foo 3788

Re: How to install Subversion 1.2.3-1?

At 10/12/2005 09:03 AM, Chris Taylor wrote: Matt England wrote: Well, the standard answer you're going to get back is 'use setup'. I've just tested it (with setup) and it installed fine. More useful would be your email on the problems you have with setup, in detail, and the output of cygcheck

Re: How to install Subversion 1.2.3-1?

Matt England wrote: Well, the standard answer you're going to get back is 'use setup'. I've just tested it (with setup) and it installed fine. More useful would be your email on the problems you have with setup, in detail, and the output of cygcheck -svr *ATTACHED* , as per http://cygwin.com/p

Why is setup.exe so difficult? Am I missing something?

[Warning: This is a complete flame of cygwin's setup.exe. After being a long-time user, I've simply given up patience with the program, and this email will probably be the least-courteous note I've posted to any internet community in a long, long time. I simply need to get someone's attention,

How to install Subversion 1.2.3-1?

I am trying to install Subversion 1.2.3-1 on my cygwin system. I am not having any success with setup.exe (I plan to post a separate email regarding setup.exe issues). I tried downloading and extracting the following package: http://mirror.calvin.edu/cygwin/release/subversion/subversion-1.2.3

mkdir(2) bug [Was: please test: coreutils-5.90-2]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 10/12/2005 1:47 AM: >>I am suspecting a cygwin bug here. mkdir("c:") should fail with EEXIST, >>not EACCES. 5.90 exposes this bug, where 5.3.0 did not, because the >>algorithm for mkdir -p was changed to attempt mkdir

Re: please test: coreutils-5.90-2

On Oct 12 09:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 11 21:20, Eric Blake wrote: > > $ df -T c: j: > > FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > c:system,fixed29286460 20471796 8814664 70% /cygdrive/c > > j: system,remote 6260992 4508800 1752192 73%

Re: Fw: Regression problem in cygwin1.5.18 and Perl 5.8.6/7

Jurgen Defurne wrote: Lo and behold, using the 20051011 snapshot solves my problem. Big pheew! Thanks anyway for replying. Jurgen I'm looking forward to the next official release. Gerrit -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin

Re: handle_threadlist_exception: handle_threadlist_exception called with threadlist_ix -1

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I don't see how ignoring blocked signals would cause a SEGV however. Well... indirectly they do :) I hope you are not too annoyed already because this time I really found the cause of the problem. Assume a signal is sent to a thread with pthread_k

Re: Logger logs as user.notice

On Oct 12 10:40, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 11 16:51, Jaime Saiz Santos wrote: > > Hi. > > I have two questions regarding syslog & logger in inetutils package: > > > > > > 1. logger command seems to ignore -p option: it behaves as if > > "user.notice" were put always. > > > > For instance

Fw: Regression problem in cygwin1.5.18 and Perl 5.8.6/7

- Forwarded by Jurgen Defurne/BRG/CE/PHILIPS on 2005-10-12 01:36 PM - Jurgen Defurne 2005-10-12 01:24 PM To Jurgen Defurne/BRG/CE/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: Regression problem in cygwin1.5.18 and Perl 5.8.6/7 Classification Unclassified Lo and behold, using the 20051011

Re: Regression problem in cygwin1.5.18 and Perl 5.8.6/7

I have found time to install a fresh Cygwin setup on a Windows 2000 machine, where I did not have the previously described problem (three years of production service). I wrote a wrapper script which executes the open $proc, "process|"; while (<$proc>) { print $_; } close $proc; loop on a

Re: A problem while using urllib

Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 12 09:57, Steve Holden wrote: [...] Talking about a testcase, if you want to submit a bug report, could you please apply a simple, self-contained, OOTB testcase, written in plain C, which shows what's going on? I just see an EINPROGRESS error message above and I

Re: A problem while using urllib

On Oct 12 09:57, Steve Holden wrote: > I realized after this post that WingIDE doesn't run under Cygwin, so I > modified the code further to raise an error and give us a proper > traceback. I also tested the program under the standard Windows 2.4.1 > release, where it didn't fail, so I conclude

Re: A problem while using urllib

Steve Holden wrote: Johnny Lee wrote: [...] I've sent the source, thanks for your help. [...] Preliminary result, in case this rings bells with people who use urllib2 quite a lot. I modified the error case to report the actual message returned with the exception and I'm seeing things like:

Re: Logger logs as user.notice

On Oct 11 16:51, Jaime Saiz Santos wrote: > Hi. > I have two questions regarding syslog & logger in inetutils package: > > > 1. logger command seems to ignore -p option: it behaves as if > "user.notice" were put always. > > For instance: > > $ cat /etc/syslog.conf > local3.*/va

Re: Bug: 1.5.18: 'This application has failed to start because cygwin1.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem'

On Oct 10 21:29, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Glen A Coakley wrote: > I believe this may be an instance of the error I reported in > . Basically, the > PATH conversion code stops whenever it encounters an invalid element in

Re: md5sum problem on reading CD's

On Oct 11 22:03, Stilianos Kesisoglou wrote: > Hi, > > I've discovered an error in using the md5sum command > to create a hash for a CD. > > I was trying to burn a CD, from an ISO image of the > Solaris CD1 that I downloaded from Sun's Download > Center. > > Before the burning process, I've calc

Re: Tasking not implemented on this configuration - again

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 08:43:47PM -0500, Anh Vo wrote: > >>> "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/11/2005 1:54 PM >>> > Peter W Meyer wrote: > > I am also trying to run tasking using GCC-Ada and cygwin and I'm getting > > the Tasking not implemented message. I took a look at the emails regard

Re: please test: coreutils-5.90-2

On Oct 11 21:20, Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to David Rothenberger on 10/11/2005 4:13 PM: > > I'm having another problem with 'mkdir -p' in 5.90-2. > > > > I have a script that attempts to do "mkdir -p c:/dir1/dir2/dir3". This > > started fail

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: compface-1.5.2-1

Hi A new version of 'compface-1.5.2-1' has been uploaded to a server near you. DESCRIPTION: 48x48x1 image compression and decompression. CYGWIN NEWS: o Maintainership changed to Dr. Volker Zell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> o Switched to g-b-s building o Added shared libra

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New packages: libEMF/libEMF1/libEMF-devel: A library for generating Enhanced Metafiles

Hi The packages libEMF/libEMF1/libEMF-devel are now available with the Cygwin distribution: * http://libemf.sourceforge.net/ (Homepage) * http://sourceforge.net/projects/pstoedit (Download location) DESCRIPTION: sdesc: "A library for generating Enhanced Metafiles" ldesc: "lib

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ruby-1.8.3-2

I have updated the version of ruby on cygwin.com to 1.8.3-2. This is a Cygwin package update. It fixes the problem that CONFIG["INSTALL"] in rbconfig.rb refers to /usr/bin/ginstall instead of to /usr/bin/install. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://

Re: [Bug-tar] Re: Tar and --overwrite-dir

Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Forwarding to the bug-tar list; originally reported on cygwin] > > > My info tar mentions --overwrite-dir switch but the tar executable > > itself doesn't seem to know anything about it. Is the documentation out > > of sync with the executable? [..] > It a