Re: [RFU] {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.4-2

2012-05-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/14/2012 12:27 PM, Ken Brown wrote: D=http://sanibeltranquility.com/cygwin/release/emacs wget -x -nH --cut-dirs=2 \ ${D}/emacs-23.4-2-src.tar.bz2\ ${D}/emacs-23.4-2.tar.bz2\ ${D}/setup.hint\ ${D}/emacs-X11/emacs-X11-23.4-2.tar.bz2\ ${D}/emacs-X11/setup.hint\

EMACS broken after Patch Tuesday

2012-05-15 Thread McBroom, Robert C
Following the Microsoft updates on Windows 7 32bit system, EMACS will no longer function. CYGWIN had not been updated in a while as it was working for the tasks at hand. Updated to current image with the result-- rm3@mcbroomrc2 ~ $ emacs rm3@mcbroomrc2 ~ $ 1 [main] bash 5280 fork:

Re: X server shutdown or killed/destroyed

2012-05-15 Thread Lester Ingber
Jon TURNEY jon.turney at dronecode.org.uk writes: On 08/08/2011 17:49, Howard Feil wrote: The OS of the target machines was CENTOS 5.5 and 5.4 [root at MQWKS4 ~]# ssh -V OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 01 Jul 2008 [logs snipped] Thanks very much for the information. I am

Re: EMACS broken after Patch Tuesday

2012-05-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/15/2012 4:41 PM, McBroom, Robert C wrote: Following the Microsoft updates on Windows 7 32bit system, EMACS will no longer function. CYGWIN had not been updated in a while as it was working for the tasks at hand. Updated to current image with the result-- rm3@mcbroomrc2 ~ $ emacs

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog DevNotes fhandler_tty. ...

2012-05-15 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: c...@sourceware.org 2012-05-16 01:56:42 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog DevNotes fhandler_tty.cc cygwin/release : 1.7.16 Log message: * DevNotes: Add entry cgf-08. *

user-group relationship problem

2012-05-15 Thread Fedin Pavel
Looks like i've figured out why NFS sometimes becomes unresponsive. This can be uid/gid problem. I have a local used named 'nfsd' to run the server. Here is its line from what mkpasswd -l reports. Note its GID=513.

Re: emacs -nw hangs in a terminal

2012-05-15 Thread Filipp Gunbin
Ken Brown kbr...@cornell.edu writes: On 5/14/2012 8:29 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: Recently, emacs in a terminal started hanging: /usr/bin/emacs -nw --no-init-file --no-site-file I had to kill it from another terminal window. But I noticed /usr/bin/emacs points through alternatives to

Re: emacs -nw hangs in a terminal

2012-05-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/15/2012 6:57 AM, Filipp Gunbin wrote: I tried emacs-24, but with no luck: after hitting `C-x C-f C-g' emacs almost always dumps core. I had to revert to emacs-23 for now (using the workaround with emacs-nox, thanks for it!). Sorry for the poor report, probably I could provide more details

Re: emacs -nw hangs in a terminal

2012-05-15 Thread Filipp Gunbin
cygcheck.out.1 Description: Binary data -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: emacs -nw hangs in a terminal

2012-05-15 Thread Filipp Gunbin
Sorry, the message disappeared for some reason. Here it is. Filipp Ken Brown writes: On 5/15/2012 6:57 AM, Filipp Gunbin wrote: I tried emacs-24, but with no luck: after hitting `C-x C-f C-g' emacs almost always dumps core. I had to revert to emacs-23 for now (using the workaround with

Problem accessing Win98 network drive when logged in via ssh (or cron)

2012-05-15 Thread Gareth Howell
Hi I have cygwin (latest) running on an XP machine. It needs to access two workstations running Win95 and one running Win98. At the windows level, there are drive maps to the 'C' drives on the three workstations as X:, Y: and Z: and the filesystem can be seen. Cygwin's fstab has lines to mount

Re: strace crashes when given the --pid option

2012-05-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/14/2012 6:44 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 04:20:55PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: In a Cygwin terminal: $ strace --version strace (cygwin) 1.7.15 System Trace Copyright (C) 2000 - 2012 Red Hat, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There

Re: emacs -nw hangs in a terminal

2012-05-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/15/2012 8:26 AM, Filipp Gunbin wrote: Sorry, the message disappeared for some reason. Here it is. Filipp Ken Brown writes: On 5/15/2012 6:57 AM, Filipp Gunbin wrote: I tried emacs-24, but with no luck: after hitting `C-x C-f C-g' emacs almost always dumps core. I had to revert to

Re: Username and Computer Name

2012-05-15 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: But since you couldn't type the man bash command, I don't expect you to be able to type the more complex man bash | grep -C 3  PS1 command.  And since you've not been able to read the bash manual, how could I expect you to be

Re: emacs -nw hangs in a terminal

2012-05-15 Thread Filipp Gunbin
I wonder if this is the same problem as the one that was reported in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-05/msg00292.html and fixed in the 2012-05-14 snapshot. I tried that snapshot, but it didn't help. Both cygcheck and emacs-24 still dump core. I can reproduce this on XP but not

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Test update: perl-5.14.2-1, please update your dependent packages

2012-05-15 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz Stromeko at nexgo.de writes: With the new X server from a few days ago it [OpenGL] reliably crashes the rootless/multiwindow configuration with a really hairy backtrace, but rooted X is still OK. It is definitely the new X server, mor specifically the built-in window manager. I've

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-15 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin.com writes: Actually, if you, or anyone, gets one of these please send a copy of the message to postmaster. Yeah, just about any postmaster? I've got a new one from Joe Assistly and just guessed the domain since you don't want to

Re: Username and Computer Name

2012-05-15 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 05/14/2012 08:19 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: m...@kalani.com writes: Could you please explain more into detail on how to obtain a PS1? What else can we tell you? You've been explained how to learn about it, and you haven't. What can we do? You can lead a horse to water but you

Re: Username and Computer Name

2012-05-15 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 05/15/2012 07:12 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: But since you couldn't type the man bash command, I don't expect you to be able to type the more complex man bash | grep -C 3 PS1 command. And since you've not been able to read the bash

FAQ: uninstalling cygwin, permissions related problem

2012-05-15 Thread Robert Osowiecki
Hello, While trying to uninstall Cygwin from Windows7 following FAQ 2.19, I was stuck for quite a long time with file permissions problem, until I finally found out that SSH host key files in /etc have some Special permissions which prevent removing them. Windows system was not very helpful

Re: [feature] alias more to less

2012-05-15 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 05/11/2012 01:33 AM, Noel Grandin wrote: Hi It seems that pretty much all unixes alias more to less these days. It would be very nice if that was the default behaviour of cygwin. Would save me from constantly wondering why nothing is happening when I type more on a newly installed

RE: non-blocking reads of stdin in native child of cygwin process

2012-05-15 Thread James Johnston
In situations like this, it's useful to examine the .NET Framework and see how the Microsoft implementation works. Generally, I find that the implementations in the framework seem good and cover edge cases that I might not normally think about. In this case, the System.Console class has a method

rxvt loses output connection with non cygwin console processes

2012-05-15 Thread Pawel Jasinski
hi, i have discovered something peculiar. I run my rxvt with the usual: C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -bg wheat -fg black -sl 5000 -e /bin/bash -ls now I try inside to run some *non* cygwin console program rxvt shows nothing, and reports 30% cpu consumption The actual program is executed, completes

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.15

2012-05-15 Thread James Johnston
- Add CYGWIN=pipe_byte option to force opening of pipes in byte mode rather than message mode. I can confirm that setting this fixes the test cases I was having problems with. Thanks! :) A suggestion: maybe modify the documentation to state why one would set this? Current documentation

Re: [feature] alias more to less

2012-05-15 Thread David Sastre Medina
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 08:39:22AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 05/11/2012 01:33 AM, Noel Grandin wrote: It seems that pretty much all unixes alias more to less these days. It would be very nice if that was the default behaviour of cygwin. I second this! Granted I know how to alias

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 03:17:01PM +, Achim Gratz wrote: Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin.com writes: Actually, if you, or anyone, gets one of these please send a copy of the message to postmaster. Yeah, just about any postmaster? I've got a new one from Joe

Re: [feature] alias more to less

2012-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 08:39:22AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 05/11/2012 01:33 AM, Noel Grandin wrote: Hi It seems that pretty much all unixes alias more to less these days. It would be very nice if that was the default behaviour of cygwin. Would save me from constantly wondering why

Re: [feature] alias more to less

2012-05-15 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 5/15/2012 10:28 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: If you want to help others in your environment then create your own helper scripts to do so. I already do - all the time. If you want an alias then create one. I do that too. If you actually want more then install it. It is in the distro. I

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-15 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor writes: It shouldn't have to tell you what domain to use for postmaster for this mailing list. The four words for this mailing list would have been enough, thank you. You did manage to figure it out but, unfortunately, your forwarded header shows that the email response

Bug in package: nc6-1.0-1

2012-05-15 Thread René Berber
On 5/7/2012 2:45 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I've just uploaded a new package called nc6-1.0-1. Hi, nc6 doesn't handle UDP at all, for instance after receiving the first message (from another nc6 process as client): $ nc6 -4lup 7000 nc6: connect failed on datagram socket: Address family

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 08:16:46PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: Christopher Faylor writes: It shouldn't have to tell you what domain to use for postmaster for this mailing list. The four words for this mailing list would have been enough, thank you. If you'd actually used the two words postmaster

Re: [feature] alias more to less

2012-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:53:42AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 5/15/2012 10:28 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: If you want to help others in your environment then create your own helper scripts to do so. I already do - all the time. If you want an alias then create one. I do that too. If you

Re: [feature] alias more to less

2012-05-15 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 5/15/2012 12:53 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Ok, fair enough. We're also not going to add an alias for more to every single shipping shell. As was mentioned in the first response to the original post there is actually a more in util-linux package. That should be reason enough not to add a

Re: rxvt loses output connection with non cygwin console processes

2012-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 06:59:14PM +0200, Pawel Jasinski wrote: i have discovered something peculiar. I run my rxvt with the usual: C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -bg wheat -fg black -sl 5000 -e /bin/bash -ls now I try inside to run some *non* cygwin console program rxvt shows nothing, and reports 30%