Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-02-27 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> >> This is a pretty intrusive change, in need of some serious testing, so >> >> I'd like to ask for volunteers. The latest 2014-02-13 snapshot from >> >> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ contains the changes, including the latest >> >> bugfix. >> >> > I noticed anothe

Re: ssh login reports "Could not chdir to home directory /home/root: Bad address"

2014-02-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 2/27/2014 2:07 PM, Ernesto Puig Rodriguez wrote: When I log in into my Windows Server 2008 R2 using ssh, I get the following error: $ ssh root@winsrv2008 root@winsrv2008's password: Could not chdir to home directory /home/root: Bad address This is independent on whether I log in wit

Re: new setup.exe - another problem, or is this behavior expected?

2014-02-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 2/27/2014 12:44 PM, carolus wrote: On my last download, a few days ago, when the initial server became unresponsive, the setup process simply hung up even though I had selected several alternate servers. After waiting a while, I terminated and restarted the process but again the process hung

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-02-27 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> > 1 second? That sounds still a bit slow. Considering that I'm now >> > member of 414 groups, and you are member of 440 groups, the extra number >> > of groups cannot account for that. >> > >> > This sounds surprisingly as if the >> > names of some of your groups

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: subversion-1.8.8-1

2014-02-27 Thread Jonathon Merz
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:20 AM, David Rothenberger wrote: > Jonathon Merz wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 4:26 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: >>> SECURITY: >>> = >>> This release addresses one security issues: >>> CVE-2014-0032: mod_dav_svn DoS vulnerability with >>> SVNListPar

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 07:14:49PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >* Christopher Faylor (Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:11:39 -0500) >> I forgot to mention that I managed to duplicate this problem and am >> working on a fix for this and the other screen garbling seen in >> recent snapshots. > >Reporting a possi

Re: Core dump in emacs 24.3 on CYGWIN

2014-02-27 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/27/2014 10:34 AM, Doug Lewan wrote: All, for several months I've been getting core dumps from emacs 24.3 running under CYGWIN. I try to update CYGWIN every week, but occasionally a week must be skipped. Today is the first day I've gotten any specific information about any of these core d

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-02-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 27 23:15, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Frank Fesevur! > > >> This is a pretty intrusive change, in need of some serious testing, so > >> I'd like to ask for volunteers. The latest 2014-02-13 snapshot from > >> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ contains the changes, including the latest > >>

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-02-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 27 20:06, Frank Fesevur wrote: > 2014-02-13 15:38 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen: > > This is a pretty intrusive change, in need of some serious testing, so > > I'd like to ask for volunteers. The latest 2014-02-13 snapshot from > > http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ contains the changes, including t

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-02-27 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Frank Fesevur! >> This is a pretty intrusive change, in need of some serious testing, so >> I'd like to ask for volunteers. The latest 2014-02-13 snapshot from >> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ contains the changes, including the latest >> bugfix. > I noticed another thing. Not sure if

Re: Octave package database update

2014-02-27 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 27/02/2014 16:54, Jonas.Hagen metas.ch wrote: On 26/02/2014 19:46, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 26/02/2014 14:26, Jonas.Hagen metas.ch wrote: Shouldn't the package database update be done at installation time of the package from the Cygwin setup, rather than on every start of octave? I do n

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-02-27 Thread Frank Fesevur
2014-02-13 15:38 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen: > This is a pretty intrusive change, in need of some serious testing, so > I'd like to ask for volunteers. The latest 2014-02-13 snapshot from > http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ contains the changes, including the latest > bugfix. I noticed another thing.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: subversion-1.8.8-1

2014-02-27 Thread David Rothenberger
Jonathon Merz wrote: > On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 4:26 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: >> SECURITY: >> = >> This release addresses one security issues: >> CVE-2014-0032: mod_dav_svn DoS vulnerability with >> SVNListParentPath. >> > > Is subversion 1.8.8-1 supposed to only be available

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-27 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Christopher Faylor (Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:11:39 -0500) > I forgot to mention that I managed to duplicate this problem and am > working on a fix for this and the other screen garbling seen in > recent snapshots. Reporting a possibly related bug in connection with the latest snapshots: connecting t

new setup.exe - another problem, or is this behavior expected?

2014-02-27 Thread carolus
On my last download, a few days ago, when the initial server became unresponsive, the setup process simply hung up even though I had selected several alternate servers. After waiting a while, I terminated and restarted the process but again the process hung up. I had to remove the offending s

Re: Core dump in emacs 24.3 on CYGWIN

2014-02-27 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 08:17:20 -0800 (PST) > From: Drew Adams > > > Today I got the following, more informative error. Still, it doesn't > > help me much in fixing the problem. (And it may, of course, just be a > > consequence of a memory management problem elsewhere.) > > > > [xcb] Extra rep

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: poppler-0.24.5-1

2014-02-27 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated for both arches: * poppler-0.24.5-1 * libpoppler44-0.24.5-1 * libpoppler-devel-0.24.5-1 * libpoppler-cpp0-0.24.5-1 * libpoppler-cpp-devel-0.24.5-1 * libpoppler-glib8-0.24.5-1 * libpoppler-glib-devel-0.24.5-1 * libpoppler-qt4_4-0.24.5-1 * libpoppler-qt4-dev

Re: Console buffer jumble

2014-02-27 Thread Steven Penny
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > I found a problem with the new snapshots. If you > > 1. start Cygwin with "Cygwin.bat" > 2. enter "man bash" > 3. enter down arrow then up arrow, or Page Down then Page Up Looks like 2014-02-27 snapshot fixed it. -- Problem reports: htt

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: subversion-1.8.8-1

2014-02-27 Thread Jonathon Merz
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 4:26 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: > SECURITY: > = > This release addresses one security issues: > CVE-2014-0032: mod_dav_svn DoS vulnerability with > SVNListParentPath. > Is subversion 1.8.8-1 supposed to only be available on both x86 and x86_64 platforms?

RE: Core dump in emacs 24.3 on CYGWIN

2014-02-27 Thread Drew Adams
> Today I got the following, more informative error. Still, it doesn't > help me much in fixing the problem. (And it may, of course, just be a > consequence of a memory management problem elsewhere.) > > [xcb] Extra reply data still left in queue > [xcb] This is most likely caused by a broken X ex

RE: Octave package database update

2014-02-27 Thread Jonas.Hagen
On 26/02/2014 19:46, Marco Atzeri wrote: >On 26/02/2014 14:26, jonas.ha...@metas.ch wrote: >> Shouldn't the package database update be done at >> installation time of the package from the Cygwin setup, >> rather than on every start of octave? >> The setup has the right privileges to do so. Also,

Core dump in emacs 24.3 on CYGWIN

2014-02-27 Thread Doug Lewan
All, for several months I've been getting core dumps from emacs 24.3 running under CYGWIN. I try to update CYGWIN every week, but occasionally a week must be skipped. Today is the first day I've gotten any specific information about any of these core dumps. (Usually it's just "Aborted (core dum

Aw: Problem with stunnel/rsync & tcp_wrappers under cygwin

2014-02-27 Thread devzero
one step further - i would say, that fork() is the culprit. i added some s_log in the librwap.c code and it appears, that "case 0" never is being executed. i found http://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures , so there probably needs to be done some special handling for that. (dis

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-02-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 27 12:54, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > 1 second? That sounds still a bit slow. Considering that I'm now > > member of 414 groups, and you are member of 440 groups, the extra number > > of groups cannot account for that. > > > > This sounds surprisingly as

Aw: Problem with stunnel/rsync & tcp_wrappers under cygwin

2014-02-27 Thread devzero
after a lot of digging into it, i found it must be a problem related to pthreads. when i compile stunnel with --with-threads=fork , it works. 2014.02.27 14:19:21 LOG5[5500:0]: stunnel 4.56 on x86_64-unknown-cygwin platform 2014.02.27 14:19:21 LOG5[5500:0]: Compiled/running with OpenSSL 1.0.1e 1

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-02-27 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > 1 second? That sounds still a bit slow. Considering that I'm now > member of 414 groups, and you are member of 440 groups, the extra number > of groups cannot account for that. > > This sounds surprisingly as if the > names of some of your groups are not c

Re: Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?

2014-02-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 27 08:09, Dirk Fassbender wrote: > Am 27.02.2014 01:45, schrieb Jim Burwell: > >On 2/26/2014 16:29, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 07:26:59PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>>The common case would be for a shell to show up in /etc/shells. Under > >>>Fedora adds t

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-02-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Achim, thanks for testing. On Feb 27 09:07, Achim Gratz wrote: > Achim Gratz writes: > > "noldap" > > Sorry, copied the "getgroups" data again, this is the data for "noldap" of > course: > > 0.171u 0.015s 0:01.03 17.4% 0+0k 0+0io 3298pf+0w > 0.093u 0.140s 0:00.97 23.7% 0+0k 0+0io 32

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-02-27 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: > "noldap" Sorry, copied the "getgroups" data again, this is the data for "noldap" of course: 0.171u 0.015s 0:01.03 17.4% 0+0k 0+0io 3298pf+0w 0.093u 0.140s 0:00.97 23.7% 0+0k 0+0io 3292pf+0w 0.046u 0.093s 0:00.97 13.4% 0+0k 0+0io 3285pf+0w 0.062u 0.140s 0:00.97 20

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-02-27 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: [...] > With this patch applied, the aforementioned `id' now takes about 1.9 > secs, in an otherwise identical scenario. [...] > With this patch applied as well, `id' now takes constantly 0.4 secs. > > Note that this speedup is only possible when fetching lots of group > a