Re: Xwin has stopped working

2020-12-12 Thread briand
On Sat, 12 Dec 2020 11:55:07 +0100 Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: > On 10.12.2020 14:17, Andrey Voropaev via Cygwin wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I was using startxwin to run Xorg in multiwindow mode. Untill today it > > worked perfectly. Now my Windows 10 got some updates and Xorg stopped > > worki

Re: postinstall: fontconfig abnormal exit

2020-09-10 Thread briand
On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 08:40:24 -0600 Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2020-09-10 04:57, Fergus Daly via Cygwin wrote: > Sorry if this has been asked 4 million times already. > > > >>> $ head /etc/postinstall/{fontconfig_dtd,libxml2}.* > >>==> /etc/postinstall/fontconfig_dtd.sh

Re: that thing with the fonts and julia, and that other thing with plotutils

2020-09-04 Thread briand
> > a simple test case, please > > It is difficult to correct any problem without it There had been another thread pertaining to the graph seg-fault problem and I don't think i have any new information, the strace looked the same as what i was getting before. however, i will attach a copy o

that thing with the fonts and julia, and that other thing with plotutils

2020-09-03 Thread briand
Hi, Just got a new computer at work, so it got a very fresh install of cygwin. The problem i was having with the fonts not displaying correctly in Julia is now gone, and that's much more important than it sounds. A great many of the julia packages, and some that I use frequently, make heavy u

Re: graph (plotutils) seg-faulting

2020-07-22 Thread briand
On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 20:10:44 +0200 Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: > If it is NOT a Bloda than may be it is Windows itself. Well I know that my work computer is running a lot of crap to "protect" me. I tried to go through and start disabling it today, and as you might guess I can't. I have si

Re: graph (plotutils) seg-faulting

2020-07-20 Thread briand
On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 21:15:26 +0200 Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: > On 19.07.2020 20:23, bri...@pounceofcats.com wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 19:46:31 +0200 > > Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: > > > > >> it seems a problem with loading cygiconv-2.dll > >> > >> --- Process 3080 loaded C:\cyg

Re: graph (plotutils) seg-faulting

2020-07-19 Thread briand
On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 19:46:31 +0200 Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: > On 19.07.2020 17:55, bri...@pounceofcats.com wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 08:04:48 +0200 > > Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: > > > >> On 18.07.2020 23:12, bri...@pounceofcats.com wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> So i noticed g

Re: graph (plotutils) seg-faulting

2020-07-19 Thread briand
On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 08:04:48 +0200 Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: > On 18.07.2020 23:12, bri...@pounceofcats.com wrote: > > Hi, > > > > So i noticed graph wasn't doing anything, i could even get it to respond to > > the help argument. > > > > I attached strace to it, and it shows that it was s

graph (plotutils) seg-faulting

2020-07-18 Thread briand
Hi, So i noticed graph wasn't doing anything, i could even get it to respond to the help argument. I attached strace to it, and it shows that it was seg-faulting. I _just_ did an update, specifically to see if that would fix it and it did not. 1 could someone reproduce this ? 2 what should i d

Re: need to fix permissions

2020-07-15 Thread briand
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 07:49:30 -0600 Bill Stewart wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 6:34 PM wrote: > > the cygwin home folder is giving me a LOT of trouble with access denied. > > > > i've tried takeown and icacls to fix permissions, and strangely it worked > > for _Some_ files, but i still have f

need to fix permissions

2020-07-14 Thread briand
Hi, Windows question, but since it has to do with the way cygwin has assigned permissions, i thought it would be a relevant questions. i'm in the very unfortunate position of having a PC that won't boot properly. by some miracle i've got access to the C: drive and i'm trying to back up my fil

Re: Cygwin/X: KDE Desktop

2020-05-13 Thread briand
On Wed, 13 May 2020 19:22:25 +0200 Maarten Hoes via Cygwin wrote: > > > > Now that you mentioned that, I seem to be having similar behavior as you: > > Xfce start every time I try it. But now that I tried it some more, LXDE is > > not consistent for me either. Sometimes I get a black screen, some

Re: incorrect text mode graphic character display

2020-05-09 Thread briand
On Sat, 9 May 2020 08:32:17 +0200 Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: > > Please provide the cygcheck.out as attachment > https://cygwin.com/problems.html > > Which version of Julia are you running ? 1.4.1 > How are you running Julia? i'm running the julia.exe from the Julia install bin directory,

Re: incorrect text mode graphic character display

2020-05-08 Thread briand
On Fri, 8 May 2020 20:41:55 +0200 Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: > Am 07.05.2020 um 17:18 schrieb bri...@pounceofcats.com: > > Hi, > > > > Doesn't matter what terminal i'm using, I'm having a problem with the way > > graphic characters print. > > Julia uses unicode output, and will generate out

Re: incorrect text mode graphic character display

2020-05-08 Thread briand
On Thu, 7 May 2020 21:03:01 -0600 Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2020-05-07 16:12, Brian D wrote: > > On Thu, 7 May 2020 15:52:06 -0600, Brian Inglis wrote: > [please ensure all email addresses are stripped from the body] > >> As that env var is interpreted by the main Cygwin process cygwin1.dll, >

Re: incorrect text mode graphic character display

2020-05-07 Thread briand
On Thu, 07 May 2020 19:31:28 -0700 David Rothenberger wrote: > On 2020-05-07 15:10, bri...@pounceofcats.com wrote: > > On Thu, 7 May 2020 23:26:37 +0200 > > Eric Lilja wrote: > > > >> Cygwin itself is actually just DLL, you can select a previous version > >> of it > >> in setup.exe. That sol

Re: incorrect text mode graphic character display

2020-05-07 Thread briand
On Thu, 7 May 2020 15:52:06 -0600 Brian Inglis wrote: > As that env var is interpreted by the main Cygwin process cygwin1.dll, which > has > to be unloaded and reloaded, I'd set CYGWIN=disable_pcon in the System > environment, then shut down all Cygwin processes, as you would before running > se

Re: incorrect text mode graphic character display

2020-05-07 Thread briand
On Thu, 7 May 2020 23:26:37 +0200 Eric Lilja wrote: > Cygwin itself is actually just DLL, you can select a previous version of it > in setup.exe. That solved our issue with corrupted display of Maven. You > can also install older versions of any package (but not all old versions > ever published

Re: incorrect text mode graphic character display

2020-05-07 Thread briand
On Thu, 7 May 2020 22:22:56 +0200 Eric Lilja wrote: > You simply run the setup program, it's possible to select a few older > versions. > oh, i was thinking i could simply select a previous version of cygwin as a whole. are you talking about selecting previous versions of specific packages ?

Re: incorrect text mode graphic character display

2020-05-07 Thread briand
On Thu, 7 May 2020 20:19:29 + André Bleau via Cygwin wrote: > Brian wrote: > > > > Assuming Julia is a not Cygwin program, > > you can try "CYGWIN=disable_pcon" before any Cygwin process > > Did not help. > > Thanks for that though, I had no idea

Re: incorrect text mode graphic character display

2020-05-07 Thread briand
On Thu, 7 May 2020 19:31:01 +0200 Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: > > Any ideas on what i might try ? > > > > Thanks ! > > > > > Assuming Julia is a not Cygwin program, > you can try "CYGWIN=disable_pcon" before any Cygwin process Did not help. Thanks for that though, I had no idea those k

Re: incorrect text mode graphic character display

2020-05-07 Thread briand
On Thu, 7 May 2020 18:01:59 +0200 Eric Lilja wrote: > Did you try to go back to Cygwin 3.0.7? At work, we had to do that, after > output from Maven (which is colored) gets corrupted after a change in 3.1.0 > and onwards. The output problem we saw manifests itself slightly different > from yours,

incorrect text mode graphic character display

2020-05-07 Thread briand
Hi, Doesn't matter what terminal i'm using, I'm having a problem with the way graphic characters print. Julia uses unicode output, and will generate output that should look like this: julia> x=DataFrame([(1,2,3), (4,5,6)]) 2×3 DataFrame │ Row │ 1 │ 2 │ 3 │ │ │ Int64 │ Int64 │ I