Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-16 Thread Luke Kendall
On 16 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote: > Then I'm not the only one noticing this? No, myself and one other person here have begun noticing it. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-16 Thread Bobby McNulty
Luke Kendall wrote: On 17 Nov, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The system starts page faulting and the number of handles just grows and grows, and eventually setup dies I can add this: At the crash point, setup.exe has some 600 open handles and 2 Gb of VM. It's accumulated 2.5 million pa

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-16 Thread Luke Kendall
I should also add that after a setup.exe crash at 9:38am after being left running overnight, later attempts to install that day (with the VM size steadily increasing, and setup.exe appearing to "stick" at the stage where it is installing the zip package), that setup.log was not updated by the later

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-16 Thread Luke Kendall
On 17 Nov, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The system starts page faulting and the number of > handles just grows and grows, and eventually setup dies I can add this: > At the crash point, setup.exe has some 600 open handles and 2 Gb of VM. It's > accumulated 2.5 million page faults. luke

RE: Getting latest version of cygwin1.dll

2004-11-16 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Korn > Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 7:15 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Getting latest version of cygwin1.dll > > > -Original Message- > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Ga

Re: g++ 3.4.1

2004-11-16 Thread Tim Prince
At 10:17 AM 11/16/2004, Mikael Åsberg wrote: "Martin Magnusson" wrote: I just tried upgrading from g++ 3.3.1 (which currently gives me an "internal compiler error" on my code) to the 3.4.1 version available from the Cygwin setup. After doing so, however, I get a flood of error messages about the m

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-16 Thread luke . kendall
On 11 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote: > Guys, theres a major problem with setup. > According to the error I just got, setup is not > closing any of its files after writing them. > I finally got past xorg, and got up to update_info. > I'll rerun setup to get a cygcheck. I can confirm this. We

Re: setup size prefs (from gmane.os.cygwin.applications)

2004-11-16 Thread luke . kendall
On 4 Nov, Reini Urban wrote: > Reini Urban wrote: > >>Which window sizes do we want to store? >>I started with one size for all, then I rewrote for one size for each >>propertypage, and now I believe the best would be to store/restore >>only two sizes. >>The big size for the package list and the

Re: ampersand at character 2048 in a command is lost in make

2004-11-16 Thread Jeremy Broughton
With the latest version of cygwin, the windows '&' command separators no longer work at all unless you use "make --win32", which I guess is logical. I have confirmed that if you use the --win32 make flag using the latest cygwin, you will see the failure. Running "make --win32 fail" fails, but

Re: What to do when setup fails?

2004-11-16 Thread luke . kendall
On 11 Nov, Reini Urban replied to: > > I watched in task manager as setup's memory use climbed from 50MB to > > 127MB over a period of a few minutes. When next I looked nothing had > > visibly changed, except task manager reckoned setup was now using only > > 12MB (again climbing steadily u

Re: ampersand at character 2048 in a command is lost in make

2004-11-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 04:56:51PM -0500, Jeremy Broughton wrote: >Using cygwin 1.3.10 and 1.5.7, if an '&' ampersand character appears at >character 2048 of a makefile command, the ampersand is lost from the >command. If white-space is manipulated to move the & one character >forward or backward

ampersand at character 2048 in a command is lost in make

2004-11-16 Thread Jeremy Broughton
Using cygwin 1.3.10 and 1.5.7, if an '&' ampersand character appears at character 2048 of a makefile command, the ampersand is lost from the command. If white-space is manipulated to move the & one character forward or backward in the makefile command, everything works fine. I have attached a

Re: Problems with ssh and tunnelling with cygwin 1.5.12

2004-11-16 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Nick Wisniewski wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > > that ought to give you enough information to find out > > what's wrong. Try "ssh -v -v -v " and see what that tells > > you. > > I try this and it hangs with a response: > > debug2: x11_get_proto: /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth -f

Problems with ssh and tunnelling with cygwin 1.5.12

2004-11-16 Thread Nick Wisniewski
Dave Korn wrote: that ought to give you enough information to find out what's wrong. Try "ssh -v -v -v " and see what that tells you. I try this and it hangs with a response: debug2: x11_get_proto: /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth -f /tmp/ssh-LuCdTO1472/xauthfile gen erate unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 untrust

Sound generator starting package for Linux/Cygwin

2004-11-16 Thread Theo Verelst
L.S. I've started a sound generator package on Linux and Cygwin consisting of a sound server program based on Portaudio library connected with a Tcl/Tk script with user interface, in this case starting with a 8 harmonics sliders like in an organ. See: http://82.168.209.239/Soundtest Regards,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: chere-0.5-2

2004-11-16 Thread Dave
chere is a Cygwin package to manage Shell Here functionality. It adds items to the Explorer Drive and Directory context menus. The named shell is started in the selected drive/directory when the menu item is chosen. If, like me, you're paranoid about your Registry, chere can display what it would

very slow/nonfunctional updatedb?

2004-11-16 Thread Lester Ingber
I think this problem is correlated to my installing Norton GoBack in their SystemWorks 2005 Premier edition. However, I do not seem to be sufferring any great slowdown on other Cygwin utilities. gupdatedb usually takes 18-19 minutes to run on my ThinkPad/XPPro. The current job is taking over 2 ho

RE: /etc/profile error

2004-11-16 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Harig, Mark wrote: > > > > > >Look for a very current mirror and update. > > > > Sorry for the very ignorant question, but what is one supposed to do > > with base-files-3.1-4.tar.bz2? Up to now I've been doing a

RE: LANG=1033

2004-11-16 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Michael Hipp > Sent: 16 November 2004 18:48 > I just did a fresh install on a WinXP SP2 system. After PostgreSQL > refused to run 'initdb' with some error like "1033 is an invalid > parameter", I noticed that it has LANG=1033 in the

LANG=1033

2004-11-16 Thread Michael Hipp
I just did a fresh install on a WinXP SP2 system. After PostgreSQL refused to run 'initdb' with some error like "1033 is an invalid parameter", I noticed that it has LANG=1033 in the environment. I checked several other Cygwin installations and none of them even have a LANG variable. Doing 'ex

Re: g++ 3.4.1

2004-11-16 Thread Mikael Åsberg
"Martin Magnusson" wrote: I just tried upgrading from g++ 3.3.1 (which currently gives me an "internal compiler error" on my code) to the 3.4.1 version available from the Cygwin setup. After doing so, however, I get a flood of error messages about the many templates I have (such as "template-id xx

scp exits often with -1

2004-11-16 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi folks, after upgrading to latest cygwin1.dll and openssh I have massive problems with ssh/scp. Using e.g. the same scp command it fails from time to time called from the command line. Unfortunately it fails more often when called from a shell script and quite every time when this shell scrip

g++ 3.4.1

2004-11-16 Thread Martin Magnusson
I just tried upgrading from g++ 3.3.1 (which currently gives me an "internal compiler error" on my code) to the 3.4.1 version available from the Cygwin setup. After doing so, however, I get a flood of error messages about the many templates I have (such as "template-id xxx for yyy does not matc

ps2pdf: no output?

2004-11-16 Thread Brian Noble
I've got a freshly-updated cygwin distribution, using sigunix.crwu.edu's mirror. For reasons I can't understand, ps2pdf silently produces no output. For example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/my-documents/pedigree $ ls CVS prop.bib prop.log prop.tex prop.aux prop.dvi prop.ps prop.tex.~1.1.1

cygserver won't start after update

2004-11-16 Thread Bill Harris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Forgive me if this is a FAQ; I checked the FAQ, the User's Guide, and the mailiing list archive without turning up anything that looked promising. ,[ Problem Summary ] | I updated my cygwin installation on 2004-11-15; since then, I can't run | Pos

RE: mailling list ID tag

2004-11-16 Thread Richard Campbell
A google search for: "[cygwin] tag mailing list site:cygwin.com" would be useful. The following posts: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg00831.html (other headers to filter on) http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg00800.html (a subject will not be added) especially. -Richard Ca

mailling list ID tag

2004-11-16 Thread D N
I apologize if this has been suggested before... Would it be possible to ask the kind Cygwin people to put a tag on their mailing list? For example, I am subscribed to several other lists that use: [Subject] as their tag. This makes filtering into different folders easy and I can find what I wan

RE: /etc/profile error

2004-11-16 Thread Harig, Mark
> > > >Look for a very current mirror and update. > > Sorry for the very ignorant question, but what is one supposed to do > with base-files-3.1-4.tar.bz2? Up to now I've been doing all > installations with the Cygwin installer app

RE: URGENT HELP: How does a cygwin.dll by passes ws2_32.dll?

2004-11-16 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: Nagamani Veerappa > Sent: 16 November 2004 13:43 > Dave, > > Thanks for the response atleast.. > I understand that anyboody would really laugh...when a dll is exposing > symbols..but I can't link them > > But thats true..probably because of the > incomp

RE: URGENT HELP: How does a cygwin.dll by passes ws2_32.dll?

2004-11-16 Thread Nagamani Veerappa
Dave, Thanks for the response atleast.. I understand that anyboody would really laugh...when a dll is exposing symbols..but I can't link them But thats true..probably because of the incompatibilities,linking would not be successfull at ALL I have got it SOLVED I made another DLL..and

Re: /etc/profile error

2004-11-16 Thread kynn
X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Cygwin List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Sender: Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:42:19 -0500 From: Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 05:38 PM 11/15/2004, you wrote: >Whenever I bring up a Cygwin shell, I get the following error: > > bas

RE: Getting latest version of cygwin1.dll

2004-11-16 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Gary R. Van Sickle > Sent: 16 November 2004 04:20 > To: cygwin > Subject: RE: Getting latest version of cygwin1.dll > > > How old are you not yet to have learned that saying 'Hey, you > > stupid bastards, you guys really suck, help me

RE: URGENT HELP: How does a cygwin.dll by passes ws2_32.dll?

2004-11-16 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Nagamani Veerappa > Sent: 16 November 2004 06:31 > Dear experts, > > I wonder how can a exe compiled using gcc on cygwin by passes > ws2_32.dll? > > Basically I have a windows program compiled using MSVC, need > to use socket > int

RE: Problems with ssh and tunnelling with cygwin 1.5.12

2004-11-16 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Nick Wisniewski > Sent: 15 November 2004 19:58 > > Is this really sh.exe? Can you check whether this sh.exe process is > > running before you start ssh (e.g., compare the outputs of > "ps -ef" before > > and after "ssh -X")? > before

For me this worked:

2004-11-16 Thread Ronny Schoeniger
Delete the leading TAB in line 70, so that the first character of the line is the E of EOF 60 # Run all of the profile.d scripts 61 # Note that these are supplied by separate packages 62 # Ascending alphanumerical order enforced 63 if [ -d "/etc/profile.d" ]; then 64 while read f; d

rlogin with "trusted" account still prompts for password.

2004-11-16 Thread jean . samoise
Hi. I am having trouble with cygwin.My PC runs WINDOWS 2000. Trying to rlogin to a unix machine as trusted account, with the correct configured .rhost files, so including the account used in the rlogin, the password prompt still comes. One clue : the id command gives for uid not exactly my NT a

Help needed with installation

2004-11-16 Thread Thomas Gumpinger
I think I'm going crazy... When I try ton stall cygwin on my machine here (XEON 3200 with 3 GB of RAM) the installation seems to work perfectly... But the etc directory stays empty, no passwd file is created, there is no /home Well, I have checked the mailing list and changed the permissions