Charles Wilson wrote
Roger While wrote:
>
> gettext has a requirement on libiconv2.
> libiconv2 contains only the cygiconv dll and nothing else.
>
> OK. So we have a typical (libtooled) autoconf/automake configure which has
> a AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]).
>
> Fine, the configure proceeds and prod
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 04:35:48PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 04:28:45PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>...that would be useful.
>
>Also, one big thing is missing here: cygcheck output, as per
>http://cygwin.com/problems.html. I just went back to check on what OS
Sorry about the disconnect from the world on my PC, it can't be helped or
changed.
I looked in the /var/log/setup.log.full file and found a few warnings having to
do with permissions.
It is complaining about the /etc/passwd and /etc/group file not being readable
by all.
All the scripts in the
Lapo Luchini wrote:
> Expect it in a few days. =)
Errr, a few more days.
Life hit hard on my "free time" last weeks...
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On 3/12/2010 1:57 PM, Roe, Kevin L. wrote:
First off, I cannot run cygcheck and give you the results. My machine is
completely disconnected from the internet and has no external write
capability.
I think it goes without saying that this is an impediment to solving this
problem. But I'll resor
On 3/12/2010 1:51 PM, George Barrick wrote:
2010.03.12.18:53:51 UT
Hi Larry,
O.K. So that would be a 'backbone'
server in my region that caches the file,
but gets a corrupted version of it?
Perhaps. If it's not a local process that's
causing the problem, then a bad
Cancel the problem with the group below.
I think I found the problem: The I don't have permission to read the
/etc/group file.
I still have the issue with the .bashrc file not being sourced.
-Kevin
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From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Be
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 04:28:45PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>...that would be useful.
Also, one big thing is missing here: cygcheck output, as per
http://cygwin.com/problems.html. I just went back to check on what OS
was being used and I don't see that anywhere.
Please send that ASAP.
c
Ok, I have installed the profile file, but my .bashrc file does not seem to be
sourced automatically.
Also, it is complaining about my group being mkgroup when I know that my
/etc/group file is correct.
-Kevin
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From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 04:49:37PM +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>On 12.03.2010 16:16, Eric Blake wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>> This is an area of active conversation; if you would like, you can test
>> the latest snapshot and the experimental coreutils 8.4-1 to see if the
>> behavior is more intuitive
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 04:48:14PM +0100, Schmidt, Oliver wrote:
>Hi,
>
>> Does the patch help?
>
>As the issue is sporadic it's not that easy to come up with a conclusive
>answer...
>
>I downloaded http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin1-20100309.dll.bz2,
>unpacked and renamed the DLL and used it as
I now have 1.7.1
The problem I reported in this thread is still there.
Any other thoughts?
-Kevin
-Original Message-
From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of
Roe, Kevin L.
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 3:36 PM
To: cygwin
Subject: RE: "cp: skipping file
Eric Blake a écrit :
That's bash's rules. According to POSIX, "\n" has undefined behavior.
And in some other implementations, such as Solaris sh, "\n" is
interpolated by the shell as a newline. Bash instead does the
interpolation when you use $'\n'.
isn't it the echo command which interpret
On 3/12/2010 10:04 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 08:41:15AM -0500, George Barrick wrote:
>> I've tried a couple of different browsers as well as 'wget' to pull the
>> setup.exe file. I swear that I'm not being an idiot. I also went to a
>> sub-network here at our organiz
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 08:41:15AM -0500, George Barrick wrote:
>I've tried a couple of different browsers as well as 'wget' to pull the
>setup.exe file. I swear that I'm not being an idiot. I also went to a
>sub-network here at our organization that implements a different
>router, and wound up w
I did a "reinstall" of cygwin when I installed 1.7.1 over my 1.5.25 install.
It is my impression that this is the way to guarantee the complete install of
the OS.
How did such a critical file get missed and how can I guarantee other files
were not missed.
-Kevin
-Original Message-
Fro
Hello Eric,
* On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 08:16:42AM -0700 Eric Blake wrote:
> In general, cygwin does not care if the .exe is missing, but other
> programs (particularly cmd) do, so it is better if PE-COFF files are
> given the .exe extension.
Is it really better to add the .exe extension? May I a
Roe, Kevin L.:
> My install is missing the /etc/profile file.
>
> I think this may be the reason for why I need the '-c "exec /bin/bash"' in my
> shortcut.
>
> What do I need to have in my /etc/profile file besides what you mentioned.
Lots. Probably best to reinstall the 'base-files' package at t
On 12/03/2010 12:17, George Barrick wrote:
> It looks like the newest version of
> the setup.exe has been transmitted
> incompletely to the server. Its size is
> only 10.9 kBt, but the typical setup.exe is
> 610 kBt. When I try to run the downloaded
> program, it crashes immediately with:
On 12/03/2010 17:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hang on. This endless loop has nothing to do with Cygwin code. The
> addresses show that we're outside of Cygwin, which is in the 0x61xx
> address range. 0x7dxx is probably somewher in a Windows DLL.
That'll be WFMO, I'd bet. So it's
My install is missing the /etc/profile file.
I think this may be the reason for why I need the '-c "exec /bin/bash"' in my
shortcut.
What do I need to have in my /etc/profile file besides what you mentioned.
-Kevin
-Original Message-
From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@c
About once a month I get something like this:
4 [main] perl 3156 D:\Local\Cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** fatal error - cygheap
base mismatch detected - 0x6120C6E0/0xD4C6E0.
This problem is probably due to using incompatible versions of the cygwin
DLL. Search for cygwin1.dll using the Windows Start->Fi
Roe, Kevin L.:
> Ok, I can look at the other machine now (briefly), the sytax there already
> has the --login
>
> So, that is not the problem...
Check that /etc/profile actually exists and that it contains these
lines near the start:
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:$PATH
export PATH
(And lose
Corinna
Nope, none of those applications are installed. I'm not sure whether it is a
fork() issue, opening a sub shell for example doesn't give any errors.
Please let me know if you have another suggestion.
TIA,
Dick
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On Mar 12 13:10, li...@trcintl.com wrote:
> I have been using rsync with cygwin for years to synchronize several
> relatively large data sets at several different locations. When I
> upgraded to the cygwin 1.7 version a while back, I began noticing a random
> problem with rsync hanging. It wou
Ok, I can look at the other machine now (briefly), the sytax there already has
the --login
So, that is not the problem...
-Original Message-
From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of
Roe, Kevin L.
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 11:34 AM
To: cygwin@cygwin.
Ok, so I am testing this on a machine that has 1.5.3
I changed the -login to --login
It doesn't change anything. I know, I really need to test it on the other
machine, but it isn't available right now.
However, I also tried eliminating the "login" option entirely, and now this
machine has the
Roe, Kevin L. wrote:
> Here is the exact syntax used in my Windows shortcut:
>
> C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -T "%COMPUTERNAME%.%USERDNSDOMAIN%" -e /bin/bash
> -login -c "exec /bin/bash"
And there is your problem, its --login (long parameters use double dash).
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Here is the exact syntax used in my Windows shortcut:
C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -T "%COMPUTERNAME%.%USERDNSDOMAIN%" -e /bin/bash -login
-c "exec /bin/bash"
-Kevin
-Original Message-
From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of
Andy Koppe
Sent: Friday, March
On 12 March 2010 18:57, Roe, Kevin L.:
> First off, I cannot run cygcheck and give you the results. My machine is
> completely disconnected from the internet and has no external write
> capability.
>
> I installed 1.7.1 on a machine that already had 1.5. The machine is a dual
> quad core Intel
I have been using rsync with cygwin for years to synchronize several relatively
large data sets at several different locations. When I
upgraded to the cygwin 1.7 version a while back, I began noticing a random
problem with rsync hanging. It would not do it in the same
place, but it seemed to
First off, I cannot run cygcheck and give you the results. My machine is
completely disconnected from the internet and has no external write capability.
I installed 1.7.1 on a machine that already had 1.5. The machine is a dual
quad core Intel box running 64 bit XP.
After installation, I laun
2010.03.12.18:53:51 UT
Hi Larry,
O.K. So that would be a 'backbone'
server in my region that caches the file,
but gets a corrupted version of it?
In that circumstance, it is nothing
"insidious". I just have to wait until
the offending file gets flushed from the
serve
On 3/12/2010 1:34 PM, Roe, Kevin L. wrote:
My $PATH in my new install of 1.7.1 is missing the cygwin directories
(/usr/local/bin, /usr/bin, /bin, /usr/X11R6/bin)
Is this a result of the mount point issue called out on the cygwin home
page?
No. See the problem reporting guidelines to report a
On 3/12/2010 1:33 PM, George Barrick wrote:
Can this be some kind of insidious
site-blocking that is being implemented by
the persons who manage network security for
my institution? My only good test will be
tonight when I arrive home to try the download
from my DSL-network.
Most likely
My $PATH in my new install of 1.7.1 is missing the cygwin directories
(/usr/local/bin, /usr/bin, /bin, /usr/X11R6/bin)
Is this a result of the mount point issue called out on the cygwin home page?
-Kevin
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2010.03.12.18:32:08 UT
Hi Jason,
I tried all three of the URL's that
you provided. Both
http://mirrors.pdinc.us/setup.exe.gz
http://mirrors.pdinc.us/cygwin-htdocs/setup.exe
gave me a 'wget' process that seemed to
hang. I had to kill it after a few minutes.
They both
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 08:50:38PM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
> Cesar Crusius:
> > I am using Cygwin and SSH to do automated remote builds using Visual
> > C++. It works for a few days, but invariably things start failing with
> > messages like these (this one from a build log):
> >
> > Makefile:9: M
On Mar 12 17:27, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 12 16:48, Schmidt, Oliver wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > Does the patch help?
> >
> > As the issue is sporadic it's not that easy to come up with a conclusive
> > answer...
> >
> > I downloaded http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin1-20100309.dll.bz2,
> >
On Mar 12 16:18, Dick wrote:
> Hi Corinna,
>
> Yes, the 2k008 server is running TS. I've disabled DEP for all applications
> and
> removed cygwin and reran setup.exe.
>
> Sadly the probleem isn't solved, any other suggestions are welcome.
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda ?
On Mar 12 08:28, Robert Jacobson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just updated from 1.5.x to 1.7.1. This nicely resolved a "slow
> login" problem I was having with my domain account login.
>
> However, I'm still having one issue that I've been unable to resolve
> (i.e. it occurrs with both 1.5.x and 1.7.1)
On Mar 12 16:48, Schmidt, Oliver wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Does the patch help?
>
> As the issue is sporadic it's not that easy to come up with a conclusive
> answer...
>
> I downloaded http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin1-20100309.dll.bz2,
> unpacked and renamed the DLL and used it as drop-in replacem
On Mar 13 00:07, bootleq wrote:
> When typing command in Windows XP cmd.exe shell, with multi-byte
> characters, for example:
> bash -c 'echo ???'
> result in:
> bash: $'echo \357\274\241': command not found
> expected result:
> ???
>
> This would be problematic when writing Windows scripts to inv
On Mar 12 16:49, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> On 12.03.2010 16:16, Eric Blake wrote:
> >>...
> >This is an area of active conversation; if you would like, you can test
> >the latest snapshot and the experimental coreutils 8.4-1 to see if the
> >behavior is more intuitive (that is, there are more situation
Hi Corinna,
Yes, the 2k008 server is running TS. I've disabled DEP for all applications and
removed cygwin and reran setup.exe.
Sadly the probleem isn't solved, any other suggestions are welcome.
Thanks,
Dick
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On 12.03.2010 16:16, Eric Blake wrote:
...
This is an area of active conversation; if you would like, you can test
the latest snapshot and the experimental coreutils 8.4-1 to see if the
behavior is more intuitive (that is, there are more situations where
.exe is preserved across file moves
Hi,
> Does the patch help?
As the issue is sporadic it's not that easy to come up with a conclusive
answer...
I downloaded http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin1-20100309.dll.bz2,
unpacked and renamed the DLL and used it as drop-in replacement to the
1.7.1 DLL.
I experienced three times by now th
> -Original Message-
> From: George Barrick
> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 9:57
> Subject: Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe
>
> 2010.03.12.14:58:07 UT
>
> Hi Jason,
>
> My md5sum for the bad version of
> the file is:
>
> ab9fd4fa13f38ed6e9086cfe4d6c7064 *set
From: Ross Hemingway
Date: Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 09:27:29AM -0500
>
> I tried that just now. No changes. The other utilities I run or test
> seem to work OK. It would appear its just when a fork is called for, that
> the resource fault occurs.
>
> It might be a file / location permissions faul
On 03/12/2010 08:03 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> I wonder if there is more explanation available about how Cygwin
> handles the .exe extension than I found in the User's Guide.
>
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/
>
> I'm running 1.7.1.
> In particular, I find it odd that moving a binary executab
I wonder if there is more explanation available about how Cygwin
handles the .exe extension than I found in the User's Guide.
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/
I'm running 1.7.1.
In particular, I find it odd that moving a binary executable
toggles whether or not it has the .exe extension. Consider
George Barrick sent the following at Friday, March 12, 2010 8:41 AM
> I've tried a couple of different
>browsers as well as 'wget' to pull the setup.exe file. I swear that
>I'm not being an idiot. I also went to a sub-network here at our
>organization that implements a different router, and wou
2010.03.12.14:58:07 UT
Hi Jason,
My md5sum for the bad version of
the file is:
ab9fd4fa13f38ed6e9086cfe4d6c7064 *setup.exe
The url was http://cygwin.com/setup.exe.
George gbarr...@walsh.exe
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On 3/12/2010 12:36 AM, Ross Hemingway wrote:
I have the same problems with multiple apps - Exim and UW-ipop. They
both fail with the same faults:
fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
The Exim will send a few mails, but will fail after a few minutes use.
UW-ipop fails the first time its called
> -Original Message-
> From: Behalf Of George Barrick
> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 8:41
> Subject: Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe
>
>2010.03.12.13:43:11 UT
>
> Hi Corinna,
>
> I've tried a couple of different
> browsers as well as 'wget' to pull the
> setu
2010.03.12.13:43:11 UT
Hi Corinna,
I've tried a couple of different
browsers as well as 'wget' to pull the
setup.exe file. I swear that I'm not
being an idiot. I also went to a
sub-network here at our organization
that implements a different router, and
wound up with the
On Mar 12 14:26, Csaba Raduly wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Sure, but in that case, no, there's nothing we can do about it, except
> > to revert major functionality in Cygwin to the old implementation.
> > However, since we're using an officially documented
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Sure, but in that case, no, there's nothing we can do about it, except
> to revert major functionality in Cygwin to the old implementation.
> However, since we're using an officially documented API, I don't see a
> reason to do that.
Just
On 3/12/2010 12:36 AM, Ross Hemingway wrote:
I have the same problems with multiple apps - Exim and UW-ipop. They
both fail with the same faults:
fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
The Exim will send a few mails, but will fail after a few minutes use.
UW-ipop fails the first time its called
On Mar 12 08:05, Bill Lebow wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > On Mar 11 13:12, William Lebow wrote:
> > > echo foo | tee -a test3.txt : terminal output is okay but test3.text
> > > starts with 3 characters of garbage before the string foo
> > >
> > > echo foo | tee test4.txt : terminal output
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 11 13:12, William Lebow wrote:
> > echo foo | tee -a test3.txt : terminal output is okay but test3.text
> > starts with 3 characters of garbage before the string foo
> >
> > echo foo | tee test4.txt : terminal output is okay and test4.txt is
okay too
> >
> > So
On Mar 12 07:17, George Barrick wrote:
> 2010.03.12.12:18:07 UT
>
> Hey Cygwin folks,
>
> It looks like the newest version of
> the setup.exe has been transmitted
> incompletely to the server. Its size is
> only 10.9 kBt, but the typical setup.exe is
> 610 kBt.
Thi
On Mar 12 13:00, Dick wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've just installed cygwin in Windows Server 2008, I've only selected
> rpm-build and libintl-2 as additional packages. During install there are
> no error messages.
>
> Then when I start cygwin my home directory isn't made and no profiles
> are creat
> I wonder if this may be a problem with my install of cygwin, then
> (I did have a problem where the computer died mid-cygwin upgrade
> [thanks Windows!], and I'm not positive everything recovered).
> I'm pleased to hear it's working for others, I'll persevere.
Sure enough, after reinstalling
2010.03.12.12:18:07 UT
Hey Cygwin folks,
It looks like the newest version of
the setup.exe has been transmitted
incompletely to the server. Its size is
only 10.9 kBt, but the typical setup.exe is
610 kBt. When I try to run the downloaded
program, it crashes immedia
Hello all,
I've just installed cygwin in Windows Server 2008, I've only selected
rpm-build and libintl-2 as additional packages. During install there are
no error messages.
Then when I start cygwin my home directory isn't made and no profiles
are created. And worse, when I try to start:
bash-3.2
On Mar 11 20:42, Ilguiz Latypov wrote:
>
>
> On Mar 10 10:25, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > execv (argv[1], args);
>
> > bash$ gcc -o exec exec.c
> > bash$ ./exec /bin/echo
> > abc
> > bash$ ./exec C:\\cygwin\\bin\\echo
> > abc
> Thanks for trying a test case. I am attaching a new test case
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