Consol mode question

2006-07-13 Thread Benn Fine
Warning - old time unix user, unsure windows user newbie question: how do I use cygwin from a dos window, as seen in the example below from the documentation. Console Mode Applications Use gcc to compile, just like under UNIX. Refer to the GCC User's Guide for information on standard usage and op

DLL loading problem with binutils-20060709-1

2006-07-13 Thread Bill Metzenthen
I have been developing a mixed python / C++ program which uses SWIG to handle the interface. This worked fine until I updated binutils to 20060709-1. Then when the python script tried to load the DLL generated with the help of SWIG, the following error message appeared: Traceback (most recent c

RE: 1.5.20-1 perl 2328 sig_send: wait for sig_complete event failed

2006-07-13 Thread William Sheehan
Thank you for the snapshot advice; right now (well, into tomorrow and possibly Monday) I will be doing a binary search of the installation snapshots to try and track down the offending diff. The latest snapshot exhibits the same behavior. So far I have narrowed the problem down to between Feb 03

RE: Perl failure

2006-07-13 Thread Bruce Dobrin
I ran just the core part of the script, it forks off a number of rsync's for every machine it is checking. When the panic happens it kills of the parent, but the remaining children finish successfully. I then brought back up the previous server that I had used (win2k machine with cyg1.5.5). T

Re: 1.5.20-1 perl 2328 sig_send: wait for sig_complete event failed

2006-07-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
William Sheehan wrote: - Environment details - I have attached the cygcheck output per the problem reporting guidelines. This has nothing to do with your problem

1.5.20-1 perl 2328 sig_send: wait for sig_complete event failed

2006-07-13 Thread William Sheehan
We have a collection of perl scripts that run every night. Just recently we updated Cygwin to 1.5.20-1 using the latest setup.exe on the site, and updated all the other binaries as part of it. Unfortunately, I cannot remember what version we upgraded from; it was a long time ago, I'd guess about

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: autossh-1.4a-1

2006-07-13 Thread Schulman . Andrew
A new version of the autossh package is available in the Cygwin distribution. autossh is a program to start an instance of ssh and monitor it, restarting it if it should die or stop passing traffic. Changes in version 1.4a-1: * New upstream release: bug fixes. Andrew E. Schulman **

Re: 1.5.21s mmap error

2006-07-13 Thread Brian Ford
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Brian Ford wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I added an (hopefully) appropriate patch, which commits a page within a > > MAP_NORESERVE area when memory in this page is accessed by the > > application. If commiting the memory fails, SIGBUS is generated.

Re: Perl failure

2006-07-13 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 08:53:09AM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:08:43PM -0700, Bruce Dobrin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a server that has been doing back end maintenance using perl on > > cygwin for 6 years now. I recently upgraded from win2k and cyg1.5.9 t

RE: Imagemagick / GraphicsMagick on a brand new install

2006-07-13 Thread Peter Pimley
As was observed (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2006-05/msg00034.html), this seems to depend on new xorg*-6.8.99.901-1. --- Oh yes, how embarassing! I didn't know there was such a thing as GraphicsMagick until today, so I didn't google for it. I rolled back my X packages, and it all works

Re: make (v. 3.81) fails -- "target pattern contains no `%'"

2006-07-13 Thread Aslam Karachiwala
Thanks, guys. I'll try this when I get a chance to reinstall 3.81, and report back. At the moment I''ve reverted to 3.80, and have a deadline approaching...you know how it is :) On 7/13/06, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 13 July 2006 01:47, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2

Re: 1.5.21s mmap error

2006-07-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 13 10:07, Brian Ford wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Shared anonymous maps seem to be possible (and would probably make sense > > to minimze the swap space footprint), but are somewhat tricky since it's > > not quite clear what happens to memory which is commited in

Re: 1.5.20: Occasional crash at address 0x6100365f (cygthread::stub() in cygthread.cc)

2006-07-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 04:51:21PM +1000, Kiyo Kelvin Lee wrote: >Using 1.5.20, occasionally sh.exe would crash with the standard Windows >crash dialog with these information: > >[sh.exe - Application Error] >The instruction at "0x6100365f" referenced memory at "0x006cda90". The >memory could not

Re: Updatedb does not finish

2006-07-13 Thread Arun Biyani
This morning there were no "find" jobs running. It appears that adding /proc to prunepaths did work. /usr/bin/updatedb --localpaths="/ /c" --prunepaths="/a/proc" Arun Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Arun Biyani on 7/10/2006 5:23 PM: I hav

Re: Imagemagick / GraphicsMagick on a brand new install

2006-07-13 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Peter Pimley wrote: > If I run ImageMagick's convert, mogrify or identify tools (and possibly > others, I've not tried), they silently fail As was observed (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2006-05/msg00034.html), this seems to depend on new xorg*-6.8.99.901-1. Perhaps you can use Netpbm, in

Re: Perl failure

2006-07-13 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:08:43PM -0700, Bruce Dobrin wrote: > Hi, > > I have a server that has been doing back end maintenance using perl on > cygwin for 6 years now. I recently upgraded from win2k and cyg1.5.9 to > XP sp3 and cyg1.5.19 (to be fare, I also cleaned up the perl code a > bit). T

RE: GCC linker problem since last cygwin update

2006-07-13 Thread Olivier Langlois
Hi, This is just to tell you that I have found a fix for my problem. In my bin directory I have 2 files: ld and ld.exe To fix my problem, I just renamed ld to ld.tmp to make sure that it is the ld.exe that get executed and it fixed the problem. Is this possible that the order in which the execut

Imagemagick / GraphicsMagick on a brand new install

2006-07-13 Thread Peter Pimley
Hello everybody I have just installed cygwin 1.5.20-1 on a fresh machine (4 fresh machines in fact), along with the ImageMagick package. If I run ImageMagick's convert, mogrify or identify tools (and possibly others, I've not tried), they silently fail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ convert -ve

Re: rsync with one or two colons?

2006-07-13 Thread Brian Ford
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, siegfried wrote: > I was reading about the different ways to run rsync. It looks like > connecting to an rsync deamon is very similar to connecting to an rsync > shell like ssh. > > Are there situations where the deamon is superior to the ssh? Are there > situations where ssh

Re: 1.5.21s mmap error

2006-07-13 Thread Brian Ford
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I just read the Linux man page (again), and I seem to have missed some > important bits. The above semantics are not implemented this way in > Cygwin. A private anonymous mmap is actually just an area allocated > with VirtualAlloc. A MAP_NORESERVE

Re: GCC linker problem since last cygwin update

2006-07-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Olivier Langlois wrote: Hi Larry, I would suggest you start by reading and following the problem reporting guidelines outlined here: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Ok, I will In particular, you want to look closely at whether you're actually using Cygwin's tools.

Re: Can't scp to a server running cygwin

2006-07-13 Thread Ken Gough
HA! I found it. I am using cygwin scp in order to interact with Mercury ITG (Kintana). They advised running a modified shell to avoid an error where bash processes remain after exiting. The modification they recommended follows: /bin/bash --login --noediting -i All is OK if I ditch their recom

rsync with one or two colons?

2006-07-13 Thread siegfried
I was reading about the different ways to run rsync. It looks like connecting to an rsync deamon is very similar to connecting to an rsync shell like ssh. Are there situations where the deamon is superior to the ssh? Are there situations where ssh is superior to the deamon? Thanks, Siegfried --

Re: python test failures

2006-07-13 Thread Jason Tishler
Neal, On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 10:21:26PM -0700, Neal Norwitz wrote: > We were originally running with 1.5.19. We supposedly upgraded to > 1.5.20-1, however from one of the error msgs, it looks like we're > still be running the old version. Yes, see below... > I didn't see anything in the CHANGEL

RE: GCC linker problem since last cygwin update

2006-07-13 Thread Dave Korn
On 13 July 2006 04:00, Olivier Langlois wrote: > -Wl,--end-group > /cygdrive/c/tools/PS2/usr.gcc/local/sce/ee/gcc/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/ee/3.2 > -ee-030926/../../../../ee/bin/ld: > /cygdrive/c/tools/PS2/usr.gcc/local/sce/ee/gcc/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/ee/3.2 > -ee-030926/../../../../ee/bin/ld: cannot exe

RE: make (v. 3.81) fails -- "target pattern contains no `%'"

2006-07-13 Thread Dave Korn
On 13 July 2006 01:47, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:32:04PM -0700, Jim Lawson wrote: Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:15:27 -0400 >>> From: "Aslam Karachiwala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> The error -- target pattern contains no `%' -- >>> occurs at a target >>> such as the fo

Re: rebae ms url danging

2006-07-13 Thread Jason Tishler
Mark, See the following: http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PPIOSPE On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 03:44:16AM -0700, Mark Charney wrote: > In rebase 2.4.3 you have a URL in the file: > > /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/rebase-2.4.3.README > > That points to here: > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/too

Re: "replaced while being copied" - was ... RE: Solved partially by findutils 4.3 - RE: "inode changed", ...

2006-07-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 12 14:39, Ty Sarna wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > No, I think that's enough for now. As suggested by somebody on this > > list some weeks ago, I will change the condition on which I use the real > > inode number instead of faking the inode number using a hash value > > depending on th

Re: child node copy

2006-07-13 Thread Robin Walker
--On 12 July 2006 19:20 -0500 Deepa Mahajan wrote: When I execute any script I get errors along the lines of 12 [main] cvs 7412 child_copy: linked dll data write copy failed, 0x3F4000. .0x3F4030, done 0, windows pid 2279572, Win32 error 487 cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot fork: Resource tem

Re: error OpenSSL required

2006-07-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 12 23:07, openmikey wrote: > > I'm sure i'm missing something only a noob would, but i'm trying to compile > createtorrent from www.createtorrent.com. > > When i run ./configure, i get the following error: > > checking for SHA1 in -lssl... no > configure: error: error, OpenSSL required >

Re: 1.5.21s mmap error

2006-07-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 12 15:57, Brian Ford wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > The problem results from introducing MAP_NORESERVE in 1.5.19. That's > > the reason the same code works on 1.5.18. Your code simply defines > > MAP_NORESERVE to 0 under 1.5.18. > > While that is true, I comp

Re: grep and words

2006-07-13 Thread Jim Easton
Hi, Guy Przytula wrote: > > another question from newbie .. > > is it possible with grep to select only the rows where the second word > > applies, because the pattern can occur at different places like : > > row 1 : zzz > > row 2 : zzz > > I need only the row where word 2 = yy