Re: Bug in cygcheck (1.7)

2008-08-18 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: > I'd like to reproduce this since this is all basically code that I > wrote. Corinna and Chuck could you privately send me your installed.db's > in private email? Maybe if I use those I'll be able to see the problem. Done. -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cy

Re: cygwin 1.7.0-28: Broken pipe signal broken?

2008-08-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:00:25PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 01:55:20PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: >>Result on 1.5.25-15: >> >>$ ./testpipe | dd bs=1 count=1 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null >>[SIGPIPE!]write = -1, errno = 32 >> >>Result on 1.7.0-28: >> >>$ ./testpipe | dd

Re: Bug in cygcheck (1.7)

2008-08-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:41:09PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 04:34:10PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>On Aug 18 10:11, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 03:39:30PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> >So it's the FreeLibrary call which triggers

Re: cygwin 1.7.0-28: Broken pipe signal broken?

2008-08-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 01:55:20PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: >Result on 1.5.25-15: > >$ ./testpipe | dd bs=1 count=1 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null >[SIGPIPE!]write = -1, errno = 32 > >Result on 1.7.0-28: > >$ ./testpipe | dd bs=1 count=1 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null >write = 0, errno = 32 Yawn. I almost

cygwin 1.7 message queues can't open more than 1 queue?

2008-08-18 Thread Linh Phan
Hi, I downloaded cygwin 1.7 to use message queues but unfortunately, the message queues only allows me to open 1 message queue. If I try to open a second one, it fails with "Permission denied". Below is the test I used: #include #include #include main() { int flags = O_RDWR | O_NONBLOC

Re: How to clean up a setup.exe mess?

2008-08-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
David Arnstein wrote: I ran Cygwin's setup.exe and it seemed to hang. So I used the Cancel button. Verily, setup.exe did then disappear from my peecee. I restarted setup.exe and I selected the same mirror as before. This time, while uninstalling bash, I got an application error: The inst

How to clean up a setup.exe mess?

2008-08-18 Thread David Arnstein
I ran Cygwin's setup.exe and it seemed to hang. So I used the Cancel button. Verily, setup.exe did then disappear from my peecee. I restarted setup.exe and I selected the same mirror as before. This time, while uninstalling bash, I got an application error: The instruction at "0x004f42cb"

Re: Subversion 1.5.1 on Cygwin: Aborting because "Can't convert string from native encoding to 'UTF-8'": Subversion problem, or generic Cygwin installation problem?

2008-08-18 Thread David Rothenberger
On 8/18/2008 12:14 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > David Rothenberger wrote: >> I've tried building the latest apr and apr-util libraries. >> Unfortunately, this doesn't allow subversion CLI to do UTF-8 >> conversions. So I think this is a limitation of Cygwin. I'd be happy if >> someone more kn

Re: Subversion 1.5.1 on Cygwin: Aborting because "Can't convert string from native encoding to 'UTF-8'": Subversion problem, or generic Cygwin installation problem?

2008-08-18 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Rothenberger wrote: > I've tried building the latest apr and apr-util libraries. > Unfortunately, this doesn't allow subversion CLI to do UTF-8 > conversions. So I think this is a limitation of Cygwin. I'd be happy if > someone more knowledgeab

Re: Subversion 1.5.1 on Cygwin: Aborting because "Can't convert string from native encoding to 'UTF-8'": Subversion problem, or generic Cygwin installation problem?

2008-08-18 Thread David Rothenberger
On 8/16/2008 10:48 AM, David Rothenberger wrote: > On 8/16/2008 3:56 AM, Alexander Gottwald wrote: >> David Rothenberger wrote: >>> Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: >>> This does not happen if I use a non-cygwin (command-line) Subversion, or if I use TortoiseSVN. That's the reason why I writ

Re: Subversion 1.5.1 on Cygwin: Aborting because "Can't convert string from native encoding to 'UTF-8'": Subversion problem, or generic Cygwin installation problem?

2008-08-18 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello David, * On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 06:38:16PM -0700 David Rothenberger wrote: > On 8/15/2008 4:29 AM, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: [...] > Subversion for Cygwin uses apr or aprutil to do the conversion to UTF-8, > and those libraries don't support UTF conversion under Cygwin. I think > this is

Re: File permissions not rx for group in /bin

2008-08-18 Thread Jim Kleckner
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 17 23:07, Jim Kleckner wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Jim Kleckner wrote: I've read through the various permission documents to find the explanation and tried Google without figuring this one out. Hopefully it is very simple. I have an old cyg

Re: Bug in cygcheck (1.7)

2008-08-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 04:34:10PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 18 10:11, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 03:39:30PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >So it's the FreeLibrary call which triggers the problem. What I don't >> >understand so far is, why it does. >> >>

Re: csih-0.1.6 available for testing [Was: Re: CSIH patch (Re: Unable to run sshd ...)]

2008-08-18 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Maybe Windows 2008 is better for testing. Microsoft allows downloading > and (so I heard) even documents how to expand the expiry to 150 days. Perhaps. I was just late in the cycle for this 'refresh' of MS's XP image. It was released back in July, so that would have been

Re: Bug in mkpasswd (1.7)

2008-08-18 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 18 14:35, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Aug 18 08:19, Charles Wilson wrote: >>> $ mkgroup -l -g nonexist >>> mkgroup (391): [0] The operation completed successfully. >>> (nonexist) >>> It may be that mkgroup needs some special handling for this particular case. >>

Re: Bug in cygcheck (1.7)

2008-08-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 18 10:11, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 03:39:30PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >So it's the FreeLibrary call which triggers the problem. What I don't > >understand so far is, why it does. > > Does this have any effect? Unfortunately not, it doesn't even change t

Re: Bug in cygcheck (1.7)

2008-08-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 03:39:30PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >So it's the FreeLibrary call which triggers the problem. What I don't >understand so far is, why it does. Does this have any effect? cgf Index: cygcheck.cc === RCS

Re: Bug in cygcheck (1.7)

2008-08-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 18 00:20, Charles Wilson wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > Have you investigated the possibility that one of the package files > > may be corrupted? > > Not really -- but when I run cygcheck.exe under gdb, I get all the > packages listed properly (when 'set arg -cd') -- so I really don

Re: csih-0.1.6 available for testing [Was: Re: CSIH patch (Re: Unable to run sshd ...)]

2008-08-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 03:22:54PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 18 09:15, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 08:30:32AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >> >Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> On Aug 15 14:56, Charles Wilson wrote: >> >>> Has anybody tried this version of csih, or

Re: csih-0.1.6 available for testing [Was: Re: CSIH patch (Re: Unable to run sshd ...)]

2008-08-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 18 09:15, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 08:30:32AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > >Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> On Aug 15 14:56, Charles Wilson wrote: > >>> Has anybody tried this version of csih, or should I go ahead and promote > >>> it to curr and enforce some testin

Re: cygwin 1.7.0-28: Broken pipe signal broken?

2008-08-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 01:55:20PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: >During testing of my packages on 1.7, I got the following error message >from the grub-mkrescue script from package grub: > >$ cat boot.img /dev/zero | dd bs=1024 count=1440 > floppy.img >cat: write error: No space left on device >

Re: csih-0.1.6 available for testing [Was: Re: CSIH patch (Re: Unable to run sshd ...)]

2008-08-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 08:30:32AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Aug 15 14:56, Charles Wilson wrote: >>> Has anybody tried this version of csih, or should I go ahead and promote >>> it to curr and enforce some testing that way? >> >> I planned to test it for days, but

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: csih-0.1.7-1

2008-08-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 02:37:23PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >"-o text" exists since 2003. /me bows It's even documented: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount . cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: Bug in mkpasswd (1.7)

2008-08-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 18 14:35, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 18 08:19, Charles Wilson wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Should be fixed now as well. Thanks for the report. > > > > $ mkgroup -l -g Users > > Users:S-1-5-32-545:545: > > > > That works, but this is still confusing: > > > > $ mkgroup -l

Re: csih-0.1.6 available for testing [Was: Re: CSIH patch (Re: Unable to run sshd ...)]

2008-08-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 18 08:52, Charles Wilson wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > VMware Server is free and never expires. > > It's not the VM that's expiring, it's the Windows OS installed in the > VM. I don't have a "spare" licensed copy of XP so I rely on the charity > (hah!) of Microsoft. And their images

Re: csih-0.1.6 available for testing [Was: Re: CSIH patch (Re: Unable to run sshd ...)]

2008-08-18 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > VMware Server is free and never expires. It's not the VM that's expiring, it's the Windows OS installed in the VM. I don't have a "spare" licensed copy of XP so I rely on the charity (hah!) of Microsoft. And their images -- whether used in Virtual PC or converted and used

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: csih-0.1.7-1

2008-08-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 18 08:10, Charles Wilson wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > If this is really a cygcheck bug, we should fix the bug, rather than to > > workaround it here. Consider that Cygwin 1.7 hasn't been released yet. > > Well, yeah, but I wanted the script to work /now/, not whenever we can >

Re: Bug in mkpasswd (1.7)

2008-08-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 18 08:19, Charles Wilson wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Should be fixed now as well. Thanks for the report. > > $ mkgroup -l -g Users > Users:S-1-5-32-545:545: > > That works, but this is still confusing: > > $ mkgroup -l -g nonexist > mkgroup (391): [0] The operation completed suc

Re: csih-0.1.6 available for testing [Was: Re: CSIH patch (Re: Unable to run sshd ...)]

2008-08-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 18 08:30, Charles Wilson wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Aug 15 14:56, Charles Wilson wrote: > >> Has anybody tried this version of csih, or should I go ahead and promote > >> it to curr and enforce some testing that way? > > > > I planned to test it for days, but I was really swamp

Re: csih-0.1.6 available for testing [Was: Re: CSIH patch (Re: Unable to run sshd ...)]

2008-08-18 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 15 14:56, Charles Wilson wrote: >> Has anybody tried this version of csih, or should I go ahead and promote >> it to curr and enforce some testing that way? > > I planned to test it for days, but I was really swamped with other stuff. No worries. I've been using M

Re: Bug in mkpasswd (1.7)

2008-08-18 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Should be fixed now as well. Thanks for the report. $ mkgroup -l -g Users Users:S-1-5-32-545:545: That works, but this is still confusing: $ mkgroup -l -g nonexist mkgroup (391): [0] The operation completed successfully. (nonexist) whereas mkpasswd reports: $ mkpass

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: csih-0.1.7-1

2008-08-18 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > If this is really a cygcheck bug, we should fix the bug, rather than to > workaround it here. Consider that Cygwin 1.7 hasn't been released yet. Well, yeah, but I wanted the script to work /now/, not whenever we can track down and fix the bug. Of course, nobody else

cygwin 1.7.0-28: Broken pipe signal broken?

2008-08-18 Thread Christian Franke
During testing of my packages on 1.7, I got the following error message from the grub-mkrescue script from package grub: $ cat boot.img /dev/zero | dd bs=1024 count=1440 > floppy.img cat: write error: No space left on device But due to a hack in coreutils*/lib/full_write.c, the error message is m

Re: GCC

2008-08-18 Thread John Emmas
Thanks Hugh I found it now in the 'Devel' branch and as you said, it doesn't seem to get installed by default. Just updating now. Regards, John. - Original Message - From: "Hugh Sasse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Emmas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: 18 August 2008 11:08 Subject

Re: GCC

2008-08-18 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, John Emmas wrote: Hi there - I only installed Cygwin yesterday so I'm still fumbling in the dark. One thing I'm trying to find out is whether or not it installed GCC. Does GCC get installed automatically or do I need to install the MinGW option? (I noticed that the MinG

GCC

2008-08-18 Thread John Emmas
Hi there - I only installed Cygwin yesterday so I'm still fumbling in the dark. One thing I'm trying to find out is whether or not it installed GCC. Does GCC get installed automatically or do I need to install the MinGW option? (I noticed that the MinGW option seems to be skipped by default).

Re: csih-0.1.6 available for testing [Was: Re: CSIH patch (Re: Unable to run sshd ...)]

2008-08-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 15 14:56, Charles Wilson wrote: > Charles Wilson wrote: > > > I've uploaded csih-0.1.6 as a test release, but I do not imagine it will > > survive to curr: without changes. (e.g. it is most likely broken. I hope > > not, but...my testing environment is limited.) Please test and send > > pa

Re: File permissions not rx for group in /bin

2008-08-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 17 23:07, Jim Kleckner wrote: > Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> Jim Kleckner wrote: >>> I've read through the various permission documents >>> to find the explanation and tried Google without >>> figuring this one out. Hopefully it is very simple. >>> >>> I have an old cygwin install that I w

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: csih-0.1.7-1

2008-08-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 16 22:26, Charles Wilson wrote: > Corinna -- > > Attached see > > (1) bugfix for ssh-user-config -- self-explanatory. > > (2) behavior enhancement for ssh-host-config > > Takes advantage of new functions and cleans up behavior under 1.7 > -- esp. 'mount' doesn't have a -t option anymor

Re: Bug in mkpasswd (1.7)

2008-08-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 17 21:43, Charles Wilson wrote: > $ mkgroup -l -g Users > mkgroup (519): [2220] The group name could not be found. > Users:S-1-5-32-545:545: > > is very odd. It *did* find the Users group, and printed the output -- > but also printed an error message. Should be fixed now as well. Thanks f