Re: gitk fails to start after updating cygwin

2012-02-10 Thread marco atzeri
On 2/11/2012 12:02 AM, Arnon Moscona wrote: I just updated cygwin (installing hg), which updated all the packages. gitk now fails to start. I basically get : $Application initialization failed: no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected:

File operations really slow in emacs

2012-02-10 Thread Ryan Johnson
Hi all, For some reason file operations have become very slow inside emacs starting yesterday. It's especially painful when saving a file that's managed by mercurial (more than 20 seconds!), but I've seen it on the command line as well (x-server takes a similar amount of time to start, for ex

postinstall reboots system; saving settings for reinstall?

2012-02-10 Thread Ti Strga
Hi. Earlier today I was updating my cygwin installation (WinXP, cygwin 1.7 as of a couple weeks ago) when the computer suddenly rebooted. Because there were so other things running at the time I assumed it was just bad mojo, but after doing things slow and methodical-like, I narrowed it down to a

Re: gitk fails to start after updating cygwin

2012-02-10 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
"Arnon Moscona" wrote in message news:... > > I never needed an X server before, and gitk > displayed fine up until now. So why should I need to run an X server > now? See: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-02/msg00115.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: TTY and sshpass

2012-02-10 Thread Sylvain Archenault
> On 2/9/2012 7:46 PM, Sylvain Archenault wrote: > > Hello, > > I've been using sshpass (http://sourceforge.net/projects/sshpass/) for a > while and it stopped working after I updated cygwin to the last version > 1.7.10-1 (was wokring with 1.7.9). I think it stops working because > CYGWIN=TTY has c

gitk fails to start after updating cygwin

2012-02-10 Thread Arnon Moscona
I just updated cygwin (installing hg), which updated all the packages. gitk now fails to start. I basically get : $Application initialization failed: no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: C:\Users\Admin\cygwin\bin\gitk Preferred POSI

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: base-files-4.0-7

2012-02-10 Thread David Sastre Medina
Version 4.0-6 of base-files has been uploaded. Base-files is a set of system configuration and setup files. Change Log -- 4.0-7 * Environment variable SHELL is now exported from /etc/profile. Improved profile_d() function in /etc/profile - Cyrille Lefevre cygwin.com/ml/cyg

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: apache2-2.2.22-1 [SECURITY]

2012-02-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** apache2-2.2.22-1 *** apache2-devel-2.2.22-1 *** apache2-manual-2.2.22-1 The Apache HTTP Server is a robust, commercial-grade, featureful, extensible, and freely-available source code implementation of an HTTP (Web) server.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pcre-8.21-2

2012-02-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** pcre-8.21-2 *** libpcre0-8.21-2 *** libpcrecpp0-8.21-2 *** libpcreposix0-8.21-2 *** libpcre-devel-8.21-2 The PCRE library implements regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl. This rel

Re: sed strips CRs

2012-02-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 10 08:02, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: >> Cygwin 'sed' seems to be stripping CRs from its input. >> Linux sed doesn't do this. Example: > > Try the -b option. By this I assume you to mean that the -b option opens the input file in binary

Re: No Network Access Nearly Resolved

2012-02-10 Thread Furash, Gary F - (furashg)
Hi Corrina: > For a start, maybe you should set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group as they > are supposed to be, not as you think they should be: > $ mkpasswd -l -d > /etc/passwd > $ mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group Even when I run mkpasswd from a dos prompt (that can see mkpasswd) and ca

Re: cygwin > 1.7.9: Segmentation faults / STATUS_STACK_OVERFLOW

2012-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 10 17:24, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Other than that, you can change the pthread stacksize since 1.7.10. Try > this: > > > int main(void) > > { > > int ret; > > puts("Starting test"); > > > > #if 0 > > // Working fine if called in the main thread. > > callGlob(NULL); > > #else > >

Re: cygwin > 1.7.9: Segmentation faults / STATUS_STACK_OVERFLOW

2012-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Manuel, please, don't http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU Thanks. On Feb 10 13:40, Manuel Wienand wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > ok, the STATUS_STACK_OVERFLOW problem is solved. Seems like a local variable > with about 540 KiB caused the overflow. The Cygwin Shell gives me 2034 for > "limit -s" I

RE: sed strips CRs

2012-02-10 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
From: Corinna Vinschen > On Feb 10 08:02, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > > Cygwin 'sed' seems to be stripping CRs from its input. > > Linux sed doesn't do this. Example: > > Try the -b option. Thanx for that. It's not a problem for me. I was just reporting what looks like a Cygwin bug in case someo

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: xtail 2.1-1 -- Extended tail that works on directories

2012-02-10 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xtail License : BSD Watch the growth of files. It's like running a tail -f on a bunch of files at once. It notices if a file is truncated and starts from the beginning. You can specify both filenames and directories

Re: newbie: cygwin initial usage crashes machine

2012-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 10 18:51, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, jss pop! > > > I installed cygwin( CYGWIN_NT-5.1)without any problems at all. Clicked > > the Win desktop icon and the up came the Window and bash prompt. > > However I then tried:- > > > find / -name “*.c” –print (and again later with –type f

Re: newbie: cygwin initial usage crashes machine

2012-02-10 Thread marco atzeri
On 2/10/2012 3:12 PM, jss pop wrote: cygwin newbie. This is going to seem very low-key compared with the level of posts I see here but would really appreciate some help with a few things just to get started pls. I have checked the FAQ and lists but they are too advanced for where I am right now w

Re: sed strips CRs

2012-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 10 08:02, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > Cygwin 'sed' seems to be stripping CRs from its input. > Linux sed doesn't do this. Example: Try the -b option. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT

Re: newbie: cygwin initial usage crashes machine

2012-02-10 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, jss pop! > I installed cygwin( CYGWIN_NT-5.1)without any problems at all. Clicked > the Win desktop icon and the up came the Window and bash prompt. > However I then tried:- > find / -name “*.c” –print (and again later with –type f argument) > This ran, found a few .c files but cont

Re: Issue with sshd and sftp process on Windows 2008

2012-02-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 2/10/2012 4:59 AM, Abhishek1 Ranjan wrote: HI I am using the following details to manage my application with help of cygwin. Cygwin Version : 1.7.5(0.225/5/3) Windown OS: 2008 64 bit We use cygwin to transfer the files from Unix server(where application serevr runs) to Windows Server(Wh

newbie: cygwin initial usage crashes machine

2012-02-10 Thread jss pop
cygwin newbie. This is going to seem very low-key compared with the level of posts I see here but would really appreciate some help with a few things just to get started pls. I have checked the FAQ and lists but they are too advanced for where I am right now with cygwin. I installed cygwin( CYGWI

sed strips CRs

2012-02-10 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
Cygwin 'sed' seems to be stripping CRs from its input. Linux sed doesn't do this. Example: $ seq 5 | unix2dos | tee foo | od -c 000 1 \r \n 2 \r \n 3 \r \n 4 \r \n 5 \r \n 017 $ sed 's/2/XXX/' foo | od -c 000 1 \n X X X \n 3 \n 4 \n 5 \n 01

RE: cygwin > 1.7.9: Segmentation faults / STATUS_STACK_OVERFLOW

2012-02-10 Thread Manuel Wienand
Hi Corinna, ok, the STATUS_STACK_OVERFLOW problem is solved. Seems like a local variable with about 540 KiB caused the overflow. The Cygwin Shell gives me 2034 for "limit -s" Is that the correct maximum stack size in KiB that is relevant for me? Now about the segmentation fault. It seems like

Re: cygwin-1.7.10-1 fork - address space needed by ... already in use

2012-02-10 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > Sigh. While the basename is all we need to test if a DLL is already > loaded, it's *not* enough to load a DLL which still needs loading, > if the DLLs are not in the DLL search path, as in the case of Perl libs. Unless it is registered in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Wi

Re: Cygwin.dll version in bug reports

2012-02-10 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]! > I wouldn't presume to speak for the package maintainers. However, I > would guess that people assume that the package version is the latest. > (I do.) So if one is up to date, why the need to point it out in the > subject line? Because "latest" is

Re: Performance degradation between Cygwin 1.7.7-1 and 1.5.24-2

2012-02-10 Thread Jaswinder Bhamra
Thanks for correcting the math. I wanted to mention 'count' instead of 'times'. I tried the suggestion of trying out with 1.7.10 and found no performance gain by doing this. I am getting the same reading with 1.7.10 as I got with 1.7.7. Any other suggestions/insights on improving the performance

Re: Issue with sshd and sftp process on Windows 2008

2012-02-10 Thread Abhishek1 Ranjan
HI I am using the following details to manage my application with help of cygwin. Cygwin Version : 1.7.5(0.225/5/3) Windown OS: 2008 64 bit We use cygwin to transfer the files from Unix server(where application serevr runs) to Windows Server(Where we archive files). This was ru

Re: 1.7.10 cygrunsrv.exe fails with "fork: 11, Resource temporarily unavailable"

2012-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 9 15:39, Carl Soderstrom wrote: > Changing the stack size using regtool (regtool.exe -i set > /HKLM/Software/Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb 2048) has not fixed the problem. I don't know what the problem is here, but please note the change in terms of the heap size in 1.7.10: http://cygwin.com/c