Re: git fork failure on pull with a workaround (hopefully a clue for a fix)

2012-11-15 Thread Bill Hoffman
Hopefully more useful information... :) I used GIT_TRACE=1 to figure out where in the git pull things go bad and found something potentially interesting. I get the fork failure if I do this: $ /cygdrive/c/cygwin/lib/git-core/git.exe 'fetch' '--update-head-ok' 2 [main] git 6380 fork: c

Re: git fork failure on pull with a workaround (hopefully a clue for a fix)

2012-11-15 Thread Bill Hoffman
On 11/15/2012 3:55 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Question: What are the odds that a posted strace snippet would not contain anything useful for debugging a problem? Answer: Nearly 100% Thought it might give a clue as to which process was not able to fork. And that someone might be able to tell

Re: git fork failure on pull with a workaround (hopefully a clue for a fix)

2012-11-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 02:43:15PM -0500, Bill Hoffman wrote: >On 11/8/2012 9:28 AM, Bill Hoffman wrote: >> On 11/7/2012 3:30 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote: >>> On 11/07/2012 01:02 PM, Bill Hoffman wrote: Is there a way to debug this? > >Can anyone think of a way to debug this? > >I ran strace, a

Re: git fork failure on pull with a workaround (hopefully a clue for a fix)

2012-11-15 Thread Bill Hoffman
On 11/8/2012 9:28 AM, Bill Hoffman wrote: On 11/7/2012 3:30 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote: On 11/07/2012 01:02 PM, Bill Hoffman wrote: Is there a way to debug this? Can anyone think of a way to debug this? I ran strace, and the area around the crash is here: 181 1366752 [main] git 5908 frok::pare

Re: xz -9 : Cannot allocate memory

2012-11-15 Thread David Stacey
On 15/11/12 06:30, JonY wrote: On 11/15/2012 13:37, Peter Rosin wrote: On 2012-11-15 05:40, marco atzeri wrote: On 11/14/2012 11:09 PM, David Stacey wrote: I am trying to use 'xz -9' to compress a file, but the programme exits with the error message 'Cannot allocate memory'. Here's what I trie

[ATTN boost maintainer] libboost-devel should not bring in python

2012-11-15 Thread Eric Lilja
Hi, libboost-devel has a requirement on libboost-python, which, in turn, depends on python. That means if I want to install boost to use in my c++ program I'm getting Python as well. It's my hope that that requirement could be reveresed, i.e., libboost-python depends on libboost-devel, so I don

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {libtasn1/libtasn1_6/libtasn1-devel}-3.0-1: Tiny ASN.1 library

2012-11-15 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'libtasn1/libtasn1_6/libtasn1-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. o Update to latest upstream release o Build for cygwin 1.7.17 with gcc-4.5.3 o Library version bumped from libtasn1_3 to libtasn1_6 libtasn1 NEWS: === * Noteworthy changes in releas