Re: postgres 7.3 IpcSemaphoreCreate: semget(key=1, num=17, 03600)failed:Function not implemented

2002-12-08 Thread Dan Holmsand
Elfyn, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am getting the exact same results as you are Jari. I had a working postgres install just before the return values were changed in cygipc (1.12), but as i only use it rarely i did not notice the service starting or not starting up. From what I can see it loo

Re: postgres 7.3 IpcSemaphoreCreate: semget(key=1, num=17, 03600)failed:Function not implemented

2002-12-09 Thread Dan Holmsand
Jason, Jason Tishler wrote: On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:05:16AM +0100, Dan Holmsand wrote: I get a similar error: IpcSemaphoreInitialize: semctl(id=2, 0, SETVAL, 0) failed: Invalid argument The above is noted in the README: 2. It is recommended to delete all cygipc temporary files

Re: xinted rsync bluescreen

2003-01-13 Thread Dan Holmsand
Sergey Okhapkin wrote: net start init chkconfig rsync on chkconfig rsync off bluescreen... Win2000. I have no rsync installed. I set system environment variable CYGWIN to "nontsec", restarted init service and the problem went away... I've seen this occasionally as well, but it doesn't stop the

Re: xinted rsync bluescreen

2003-01-13 Thread Dan Holmsand
Randall, Randall R Schulz wrote: Dan, It seems most likely from this that the problem is in your file system. When's the last time you ran CHKDSK? I seem to recall other reports that were for some reason associated with accessing Cygwin's /etc. I cannot explain this other than perhaps as simp

Re: xinted rsync bluescreen

2003-01-13 Thread Dan Holmsand
Pierre, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: AFAICT the handle is opened when starting cygwin and is inherited by child processes. It is used in a WaitForSingleObject call. The purpose is to rescan /etc/{passwd,goup} after changes. It's unlikely to be a coincidence, given the previous e-mails! That's extre

Re: xinted rsync bluescreen

2003-01-13 Thread Dan Holmsand
Pierre A. Humblet wrote: AFAICT the handle is opened when starting cygwin and is inherited by child processes. It is used in a WaitForSingleObject call. The purpose is to rescan /etc/{passwd,goup} after changes. It's unlikely to be a coincidence, given the previous e-mails! That seems to be it!

Re: xinted rsync bluescreen

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Holmsand
t the code in init_cygheap::etc_changed is to "blame"; it must trigger some obscure windows bug that sometimes causes a bsod when files under /etc are accessed. /dan Dan Holmsand wrote: That seems to be it! [touching wood] I added a "return 0" at the top of init_cyghea

Re: xinted rsync bluescreen

2003-01-16 Thread Dan Holmsand
Danilo, Danilo Turina wrote: I also have a very similar problem (writing in /etc when X is running, always cause a BSOD, regardless of antivirus packages), if I can have that hacked cygwin1.dll I can try it on my systems and tell if it's the same problem. Sure. I'll send you one in private ma

Re: please try the latest snapshot

2003-01-17 Thread Dan Holmsand
Christopher Faylor wrote: The latest snapshot should fix some /etc handling problems (thanks to ideas and code from Pierre Humblet), like the dreaded BSOD. It may also solve the "pipes are slow" problem. There are also all of the fixes accumulated since 1.3.18, of course. Indeed it does seem t

Re: please try the latest snapshot

2003-01-17 Thread Dan Holmsand
Dan Holmsand wrote: Indeed it does seem to stop the BSODding on my machines. Thanks! Still no BSOD. However, now I'm having trouble with postgresql: the postmaster dies as soon as I exit psql. Reverting to a cygwin1.dll built from cvs from four days ago fixes the problem. Here is wha

Re: emacs error ad-Orig-documentation called with 5 arguments

2003-01-17 Thread Dan Holmsand
Robert Mecklenburg wrote: I'm getting the following error in the x-enabled version of cygwin emacs: ** ad-Orig-documentation called with 5 arguments, but accepts only 1-2 I think the problem is with the original documentation function itself, not with advice. M-x describe-function document

Re: emacs error ad-Orig-documentation called with 5 arguments

2003-01-20 Thread Dan Holmsand
Joe, Joe Buehler wrote: I think this (long-running) problem has something to do with the fact that emacs under Cygwin now has unexec(). If you roll back to emacs 21.2-9 you will not have any problems. I think I've found the problem: /usr/share/emacs/21.2/etc/DOC-21.2.1 seems to be missing a f

Re: emacs error ad-Orig-documentation called with 5 arguments

2003-01-23 Thread Dan Holmsand
Joe Buehler wrote: Dan Holmsand wrote: I think I've found the problem: /usr/share/emacs/21.2/etc/DOC-21.2.1 seems to be missing a few lines (at line 2406, right before Finvocation-name, to be precise). Thank you! There does indeed seem to be a difference between emacs and emac

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GNU emacs 21.2-12 is available

2003-01-27 Thread Dan Holmsand
Joe Buehler wrote: GNU emacs 21.2-12 is available. Actually, it seems to be only partially available. According to setup, only the "emacs" package has been updated, not emacs-el and emacs-X11 (both still at 21.2-11). /dan -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple B