Cannot write backup file; backing up in ~/.emacs.d/%backup%~

2015-02-09 Thread Tim Even
Do you have any ideas about how to get backups working on the following? GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-unknown-cygwin, GTK+ Version 3.10.9) of 2014-11-14 on desktop-new Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Tue Feb 10 04:13:29 2015 Windows 7 Home Premium Ver 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pa

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-09 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)! >>> Well, nsswitch.conf was a good suggestion - I'd left it as the default >>> (which is empty), but I added a 'files' entry and it came good again. >>> Changing the passwd and group entries to 'files db' makes it very slow >>> again. >> >>Limit the number of

Re: ls not in sync with chmod (weird problems with file permissions)

2015-02-09 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, diod lightbulb! > All I can do now is apparently to run all my pre-existing files thru > setfacl -b (I like to keep my files with 644 permissions) followed by > chmod. I just have to figure out how to retain the execution bit for > the few select executables that need it. > However, I'

Re: Fossil 1.30 [Was: Group execute permission regression (??): causing problem in fossil.]

2015-02-09 Thread Jari Aalto
2015-02-09 15:43 Corinna Vinschen : | On Feb 9 11:10, Jan Nijtmans wrote: | | > 2015-02-09 10:23 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen : | > > No worries. I guess I should revamp the FAQ to add a more generic | > > | > > Why do my files have certain group permissions and chmod doesn't help? | > > | > > en

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Re: Updated: setup.exe (Release 2.867)

2015-02-09 Thread Luke Kendall
On 06/02/15 21:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 6 13:05, Luke Kendall wrote: >> On 06/02/15 05:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> A new version of Setup, release 2.867, has been uploaded to >>> >>>https://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe (32 bit version) >>>https://cygwin.

Re: no signals from shell in mintty after starting from console

2015-02-09 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Thomas Wolff! >>> Run Cygwin Console. >>> Start mintty from there (without run or cygstart). >>> stty -a looks normal. >>> In mintty, sleep 9, then ^C or ^\ or ^Z. None of them works. >>> Neither can mintty be interrupted from the starting console with ^C. >> Again, WJFFM > Again, I see

Re: slow startup after upgrade

2015-02-09 Thread xian
Sorry for the double post, just noticed a very similar thread. I do have domain account. What I did now to speed up startup: created local db with mkpasswd and mkgroup created nsswitch.conf allowing only files to be read. Now everything back to normal. I read the new DB method is better, but I ca

slow startup after upgrade

2015-02-09 Thread xian
Recently I updated my Cygwin packages and since then starting bash or mintty takes much longer then before. I tried with a fresh install too but with the same effect. I do have (corporate) antivirus but the old version still starts pretty quickly. How can I debug why do I have to wait long seconds

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-09 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 09.02.2015, 21:03 Uhr, schrieb Helmut Karlowski: Right. Looks like a bug (in cygwin). No, in bash, it works with another shell. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubs

Re: ls not in sync with chmod (weird problems with file permissions)

2015-02-09 Thread diod lightbulb
On 9 February 2015 at 21:28, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 09.02.2015 um 16:37 schrieb diod lightbulb: >> >> ... >> >> 1- For pre-existing files/directories under /cygdrive/d and /cygdrive/e >> All my file permissions that were correctly reported by ls -l as >> rw-r--r-- became all of a sudden -rw-rwx

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-09 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Am 09.02.2015, 20:38 Uhr, schrieb Thomas Wolff: bash prints that message when it has the noclobber-option set. Maybe you check it? Yes, indeed, the effect shows up after set -o noclobber; however, this shouldn’t apply to device files (and doesn’t on other systems) - man bash: “redirection wi

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [32bit] Updated: {xemacs/xemacs-emacs-common/xemacs-tags}-21.4.23-1: A powerful, highly customizable open source text editor and application development system

2015-02-09 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 14:58 +0100, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > New versions of 'xemacs/xemacs-emacs-common/xemacs-tags' have been uploaded > to a server near you. [snip] > o Uses texinfo-4.13-4 for building the .info files (not included in current > distro) Does the patch at http://tracker.xemacs.o

Re: ls not in sync with chmod (weird problems with file permissions)

2015-02-09 Thread diod lightbulb
On 9 February 2015 at 17:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 9 16:37, diod lightbulb wrote: >> HI all, >> >> Maybe this is a regression. This is linked to the problem reported in >> this other thread https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-02/msg00100.html . >> I took notice of >> it right after I upd

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-09 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/09/2015 01:38 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> bash prints that message when it has the noclobber-option set. Maybe >> you check it? > Yes, indeed, the effect shows up after set -o noclobber; > however, this shouldn’t apply to device files (and doesn’t on other > systems) - > man bash: “redirectio

Re: execlp/execvp needs case-correct PATH

2015-02-09 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 09.02.2015 um 11:17 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Feb 9 00:04, Thomas Wolff wrote: With a Windows case sensitive file system (and according mount flags for /cygdrive), the PATH does not properly reflect casing of the actual directories (e.g. C:\WINDOWS vs. C:\Windows, thanks MS...). However,

Re: Windows/Posix path conversion fails on extra mount points

2015-02-09 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 09.02.2015 um 10:18 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Feb 9 00:04, Thomas Wolff wrote: cygwin_create_path (CCP_WIN_A_TO_POSIX, "C:/cygwin/lib") -> "/usr/lib" This is the correct directory, however, only by means of the extra mount point of /usr/lib; I think the result should rather be the likewis

Re: no signals from shell in mintty after starting from console

2015-02-09 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 09.02.2015 um 05:25 schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, Thomas Wolff! Run Cygwin Console. Start mintty from there (without run or cygstart). stty -a looks normal. In mintty, sleep 9, then ^C or ^\ or ^Z. None of them works. Neither can mintty be interrupted from the starting console with ^C. A

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-09 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 09.02.2015 um 11:36 schrieb Helmut Karlowski: -- Thomas Wolff wrote: (09/02/2015 09:47) Am 09.02.2015 um 05:23 schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, Thomas Wolff! echo bla > /dev/tty bash: /dev/tty: cannot overwrite existing file WJFFM Please

Re: ls not in sync with chmod (weird problems with file permissions)

2015-02-09 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 09.02.2015 um 16:37 schrieb diod lightbulb: ... 1- For pre-existing files/directories under /cygdrive/d and /cygdrive/e All my file permissions that were correctly reported by ls -l as rw-r--r-- became all of a sudden -rw-rwxr--+ ??? The same for directories where all previously 755 dirs cam

Re: group permissions

2015-02-09 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 09.02.2015 um 10:14 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Feb 9 00:03, Thomas Wolff wrote: With 1.7.34-6: - the fixes in POSIX ACL handling and the effect this has on the standard POSIX group permissions, as well as the accompanying new setfacl(1) options -b/--remove-all and -k/--remove-de

Re: 64bit cygwin: undefined reference to `cygwin_conv_to_full_win32_path'

2015-02-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Volker, On Feb 9 20:16, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > Hi Yaakov > > How did you manage to compile db-5.3.21-1 for cygwin64 ? When I retry > with your db-5.3.21-1-src.tar.bz2 I get: > > libtool: compile: gcc -c -I. > -I/cygdrive/d/misc/src/release64/db-5.3.21-1.x86_64/src/db-5.3.21/src > -D_GNU

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-09 Thread Achim Gratz
Dennis Hagarty (dehagart) writes: > But I'm just wondering how this failed after I updated - I was using it > successfully 30 mins previously. > I've had it configured this way for years. Before the update, Cygwin didn't talk to your DC, but it does now. The details are in the announcement for t

RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-09 Thread Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)
Thanks :-) I saw that, but it didn't quite sink in that this was my problem. Cheers Dennis -Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen Sent: Monday, 9 February 2015 19:51 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Very slow Cyg

64bit cygwin: undefined reference to `cygwin_conv_to_full_win32_path'

2015-02-09 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi Yaakov How did you manage to compile db-5.3.21-1 for cygwin64 ? When I retry with your db-5.3.21-1-src.tar.bz2 I get: libtool: compile: gcc -c -I. -I/cygdrive/d/misc/src/release64/db-5.3.21-1.x86_64/src/db-5.3.21/src -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -ggdb -O2 -pipe -Wimplicit-function-declaration

Re: ca-legacy not bourne-compatible

2015-02-09 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/09/2015 11:25 AM, David Boyce wrote: > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >> For now, but I may move to dash someday in the future, like Debian did. > > By “I” are you referring to a personal decision at your site or do you > mean you may exert your influence to get the defau

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 9 18:18, Dennis Hagarty (dehagart) wrote: > >> Well, nsswitch.conf was a good suggestion - I'd left it as the default > >> (which is empty), but I added a 'files' entry and it came good again. > >> Changing the passwd and group entries to 'files db' makes it very slow > >> again. > > > >Lim

Re: ca-legacy not bourne-compatible

2015-02-09 Thread David Boyce
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > For now, but I may move to dash someday in the future, like Debian did. By “I” are you referring to a personal decision at your site or do you mean you may exert your influence to get the default Cygwin /bin/sh switched to dash? -David -- Prob

RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-09 Thread Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)
>> Well, nsswitch.conf was a good suggestion - I'd left it as the default >> (which is empty), but I added a 'files' entry and it came good again. >> Changing the passwd and group entries to 'files db' makes it very slow >> again. > >Limit the number of entries that Cygwin fetches from the DC. Als

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-09 Thread Achim Gratz
Dennis Hagarty (dehagart) writes: > Well, nsswitch.conf was a good suggestion - I'd left it as the default > (which is empty), but I added a 'files' entry and it came good again. > Changing the passwd and group entries to 'files db' makes it very slow > again. Limit the number of entries that Cygw

RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-09 Thread Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)
>> Hi, >> >> I've been a long-time Cygwin user and become quite dependent on it. >> >> So, I'm in a bit of a pickle since I did an update from a mirror site today, >> and now my Cygwin window startup takes about 3-4 MINUTES (it was < 2 seconds >> before). >> >> I'd been using it and all was well

Re: setfacl man page

2015-02-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 9 16:05, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > The setfacl man page does not document the new -b and -k flags. The man pages are part of the cygwin-doc package which hasn't been updated for a while, because it's ORPHANED. If you're interested to pick up this package as maintainer, it

Re: ls not in sync with chmod (weird problems with file permissions)

2015-02-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 9 16:37, diod lightbulb wrote: > HI all, > > Maybe this is a regression. This is linked to the problem reported in > this other thread https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-02/msg00100.html . > I took notice of > it right after I updated cygwin (setup.exe 2.867) today. Does https://cygwin.com

setfacl man page

2015-02-09 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
The setfacl man page does not document the new -b and -k flags. However, they are documented by setfacl --help . - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: ca-legacy not bourne-compatible

2015-02-09 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/08/2015 02:39 PM, René Berber wrote: > On 2/7/2015 5:16 PM, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > >> /usr/bin/ca-legacy contains [[-operators but has #!/bin/sh. Attached >> patch fixes it. > > In Cygwin sh & bash are the same thing. For now, but I may move to dash someday in the future, like Debian di

ls not in sync with chmod (weird problems with file permissions)

2015-02-09 Thread diod lightbulb
HI all, Maybe this is a regression. This is linked to the problem reported in this other thread https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-02/msg00100.html . I took notice of it right after I updated cygwin (setup.exe 2.867) today. My umask is 022. The drives are NTFS. CYGWIN is set to ntsec even if I jus

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: bash-4.3.33-1

2015-02-09 Thread Eric Blake (cygwin)
A new release of bash, 4.3.33-1, has been uploaded as an experimental version, and will soon reach a mirror near you; the current version remains at 4.1.17-9. NEWS: = This is a long-awaited update to a new upstream version. Several patches that I had been carrying against 4.1 were accepted up

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {gd/libgd3/libgd-devel}-2.1.1-1: A library for the dynamic creation of images by programmers

2015-02-09 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'gd/libgd3/libgd-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. o Build for cygwin 1.7.34 with gcc-4.9.2 o Update to latest upstream release CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [32bit] Updated: {xemacs/xemacs-emacs-common/xemacs-tags}-21.4.23-1: A powerful, highly customizable open source text editor and application development system

2015-02-09 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'xemacs/xemacs-emacs-common/xemacs-tags' have been uploaded to a server near you. o Build for cygwin 1.7.34 with gcc-4.9.2 - (First version for cygwin 1.7.x) o Uses cygport for .hint files generation o debuginfo package included o Uses texinfo-4.13-4 for building the .info

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 9 11:12, Dennis Hagarty (dehagart) wrote: > Hi, > > I've been a long-time Cygwin user and become quite dependent on it. > > So, I'm in a bit of a pickle since I did an update from a mirror site today, > and now my Cygwin window startup takes about 3-4 MINUTES (it was < 2 seconds > befor

Re: Fossil 1.30 [Was: Group execute permission regression (??): causing problem in fossil.]

2015-02-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 9 11:10, Jan Nijtmans wrote: > 2015-02-09 10:23 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen : > > No worries. I guess I should revamp the FAQ to add a more generic > > > > Why do my files have certain group permissions and chmod doesn't help? > > > > entry. I just didn't expect that this change would cr

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: ssh-pageant-1.4-1

2015-02-09 Thread Michael Wild
Hi Andrey On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:05 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Finally I can have access to elevated pageant from regular desktop! > > Autostart (elevated): > > test -f "$HOME/.ssh_agent" && . "$HOME/.ssh_agent" > eval $(ssh-pageant.exe -k) > ssh-pageant.exe -s | tee "$HOME/.ssh_agent" > > .bash

Re: Cygwin 1.7 & mintty error - cannot run mintty more than once at a time

2015-02-09 Thread rkalapuc
I faced with same problem also. After quick investigation, I've found that even after closing cygwin I had one bash process still running. Killing this process helped me to fix an issue. Now I can launch several mintty sessions again. Hope it will help. Br, Roman -- View this message in context

Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-09 Thread Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)
Hi, I've been a long-time Cygwin user and become quite dependent on it. So, I'm in a bit of a pickle since I did an update from a mirror site today, and now my Cygwin window startup takes about 3-4 MINUTES (it was < 2 seconds before). I'd been using it and all was well, and then the update see

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-09 Thread Helmut Karlowski
-- Thomas Wolff wrote: (09/02/2015 09:47) > > Am 09.02.2015 um 05:23 schrieb Andrey Repin: > > Greetings, Thomas Wolff! > > > >> echo bla > /dev/tty > >> bash: /dev/tty: cannot overwrite existing file > > WJFFM > > > > Please be more specific. > >

Re: ca-legacy not bourne-compatible

2015-02-09 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 07:06 +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: > René Berber wrote: > > Don't send me copies of your replies. > > Then make that clear in your message header. > No "reply-to" = reply to "from". > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.6.2 No, the etiquette of these lists is that you

Re: execlp/execvp needs case-correct PATH

2015-02-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 9 00:04, Thomas Wolff wrote: > With a Windows case sensitive file system (and according mount flags > for /cygdrive), the PATH does not properly reflect casing of the actual > directories (e.g. C:\WINDOWS vs. C:\Windows, thanks MS...). > However, the shell finds programs anyway, like e.g. n

Fossil 1.30 [Was: Group execute permission regression (??): causing problem in fossil.]

2015-02-09 Thread Jan Nijtmans
2015-02-09 10:23 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen : > No worries. I guess I should revamp the FAQ to add a more generic > > Why do my files have certain group permissions and chmod doesn't help? > > entry. I just didn't expect that this change would create problems with > other tools than ssh or rlog

Re: postinstall script errors for package chicken

2015-02-09 Thread Christian Kellermann
vz...@volkerzell.de (Dr. Volker Zell) writes: > Hi > > For both architectures chicken postinstall scripts fail. > > 32-bit: > === > > 2015/02/08 14:46:54 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile > "/etc/postinstall/chicken.sh" > > Error: (require) cannot load extension: setup-downlo

Re: Group execute permission regression (??): causing problem in fossil.

2015-02-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 6 20:59, Jan Nijtmans wrote: > 2015-02-06 17:35 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen: > > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-02/msg9.html > > https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.ssh-pubkey-stops-working > > > > Does that help? > > > > > > Corinna > > Yes, that makes perfect sense.

Re: Windows/Posix path conversion fails on extra mount points

2015-02-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 9 00:04, Thomas Wolff wrote: > cygwin_create_path (CCP_WIN_A_TO_POSIX, "C:/cygwin/lib") -> "/usr/lib" > This is the correct directory, however, only by means of the extra mount > point > of /usr/lib; I think the result should rather be the likewise correct > but more intuitive "/lib". > The

Re: group permissions

2015-02-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 9 00:03, Thomas Wolff wrote: > With 1.7.34-6: > > - the fixes in POSIX ACL handling and the effect this has on the standard > > POSIX group permissions, as well as the accompanying new setfacl(1) > > options -b/--remove-all and -k/--remove-default. > > > > Seehttps://cygwin.com/cygw

Re: execlp/execvp needs case-correct PATH

2015-02-09 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 09.02.2015 um 05:21 schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, Thomas Wolff! With a Windows case sensitive file system (and according mount flags for /cygdrive), the PATH does not properly reflect casing of the actual directories (e.g. C:\WINDOWS vs. C:\Windows, thanks MS...). NTFS is a case-insensi

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-09 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 09.02.2015 um 05:23 schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, Thomas Wolff! echo bla > /dev/tty bash: /dev/tty: cannot overwrite existing file WJFFM Please be more specific. I.e. terminal type and any other relevant information would help resolving your issue. (Though, I fail to replicate it with

[Packaging error libpng12] name change of library breaks packages

2015-02-09 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi The latest upgrade for libpng12 from 1.2.50-2 to 1.2.52-2 breaks a couple of package, namely xemacs. There is a name change of the libpng library from /bin/cygpng12.dll -> /bin/cygpng12-0.dll Ciao Volker -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: h

postinstall script errors for package chicken

2015-02-09 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi For both architectures chicken postinstall scripts fail. 32-bit: === 2015/02/08 14:46:54 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/chicken.sh" Error: (require) cannot load extension: setup-download 2015/02/08 14:46:54 abnormal exit: exit code=70 2015/02/08 14: