Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot

2013-08-15 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 16/08/2013 12:34 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 15/08/2013 10:35 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 4:55 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: At this point I'm pretty confident it's memory corruption of some kind. Consider the following semi-STC: 1. Invoke: emacs-nox -Q; echo -e "att $(jobs -p)\nc" > /dev/cl

Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot

2013-08-15 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 15/08/2013 10:35 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 4:55 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: At this point I'm pretty confident it's memory corruption of some kind. Consider the following semi-STC: 1. Invoke: emacs-nox -Q; echo -e "att $(jobs -p)\nc" > /dev/clipboard; fg 2. ^Z 3. (switch to window runni

Re: Octave 3.6.4 cannot plot in X server

2013-08-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/15/2013 8:38 PM, Yuxiang Wang wrote: Dear all, I have installed Octave with Cygwin 64-bit, under Win 7. Besides octave-3.6.4-1, I also installed xinit and xlaunch according to the doc, and gnuplot just in case. However, when I start X terminal, open octave (that all went successfully) and

Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot

2013-08-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/15/2013 4:55 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: At this point I'm pretty confident it's memory corruption of some kind. Consider the following semi-STC: 1. Invoke: emacs-nox -Q; echo -e "att $(jobs -p)\nc" > /dev/clipboard; fg 2. ^Z 3. (switch to window running gdb and hit [shift]+[insert] to paste fro

Lack of case-sensitive filename handling with git 1.7.9-1 for Cygwin 64-bit

2013-08-15 Thread Kal Sze
I have been using Cygwin 32-bit on Windows 7 Profession 64-bit. I had the HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\kernel\ObCaseInsensitive registry key set to DWORD 0x and case-sensitive filename handling has been fully working in Cygwin 32-bit (as far as I can tell from my us

Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot

2013-08-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/15/2013 8:58 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 15/08/2013 7:07 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 6:48 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 15/08/2013 6:02 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 5:58 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 5:24 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 15/08/2013 5:14 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/1

Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot

2013-08-15 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 15/08/2013 7:40 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 7:14 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 15/08/2013 6:48 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 15/08/2013 6:02 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 5:58 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 5:24 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 15/08/2013 5:14 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/

Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot

2013-08-15 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 15/08/2013 7:07 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 6:48 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 15/08/2013 6:02 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 5:58 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 5:24 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 15/08/2013 5:14 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 4:55 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Progra

Octave 3.6.4 cannot plot in X server

2013-08-15 Thread Yuxiang Wang
Dear all, I have installed Octave with Cygwin 64-bit, under Win 7. Besides octave-3.6.4-1, I also installed xinit and xlaunch according to the doc, and gnuplot just in case. However, when I start X terminal, open octave (that all went successfully) and enter plot(1:5), I got the following message

Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot

2013-08-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/15/2013 7:14 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 15/08/2013 6:48 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 15/08/2013 6:02 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 5:58 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 5:24 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 15/08/2013 5:14 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 4:55 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Pro

Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot

2013-08-15 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 15/08/2013 6:48 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 15/08/2013 6:02 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 5:58 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 5:24 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 15/08/2013 5:14 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 4:55 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation

Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot

2013-08-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/15/2013 6:48 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 15/08/2013 6:02 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 5:58 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 5:24 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 15/08/2013 5:14 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 4:55 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation f

Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot

2013-08-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/15/2013 6:39 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 15/08/2013 5:58 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 5:24 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 15/08/2013 5:14 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 4:55 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. ___chkstk_ms () at /usr/src/debug/

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs*-24.3-6 (x86_64)

2013-08-15 Thread Ken Brown
emacs, emacs-X11, emacs-w32, and emacs-el have been updated to version version 24.3-6 on x86_64. This is a rebuild that uses the GTK+ toolkit. The version of emacs-X11 that I released earlier today for 64-bit Cygwin was accidentally built using Xaw instead of GTK+. See the earlier announceme

Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot

2013-08-15 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 15/08/2013 6:02 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 5:58 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 5:24 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 15/08/2013 5:14 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 4:55 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. ___chkstk_ms () at /usr/src/debug/gcc

Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot

2013-08-15 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 15/08/2013 5:58 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 5:24 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 15/08/2013 5:14 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 4:55 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. ___chkstk_ms () at /usr/src/debug/gcc-4.8.1-1/libgcc/config/i386/cygwin.S:146

Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot

2013-08-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/15/2013 5:58 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 5:24 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 15/08/2013 5:14 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 4:55 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. ___chkstk_ms () at /usr/src/debug/gcc-4.8.1-1/libgcc/config/i386/cygwin.S:146

Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot

2013-08-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/15/2013 5:24 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 15/08/2013 5:14 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 4:55 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. ___chkstk_ms () at /usr/src/debug/gcc-4.8.1-1/libgcc/config/i386/cygwin.S:146 You're not using the latest gcc, which

Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot

2013-08-15 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 15/08/2013 5:14 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/15/2013 4:55 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. ___chkstk_ms () at /usr/src/debug/gcc-4.8.1-1/libgcc/config/i386/cygwin.S:146 You're not using the latest gcc, which is 4.8.1-3. Any chance that that's your

Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot

2013-08-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/15/2013 4:55 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. ___chkstk_ms () at /usr/src/debug/gcc-4.8.1-1/libgcc/config/i386/cygwin.S:146 You're not using the latest gcc, which is 4.8.1-3. Any chance that that's your problem? Ken -- Problem reports:

Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot

2013-08-15 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 15/08/2013 1:10 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 12:58:02 -0400 From: Ken Brown CC: Eli Zaretskii Eli is the expert on bidi.c (he wrote it). He can probably tell you whether you've really bumped into an emacs bug here. There's nothing wrong with bidi.c here, it just aborts

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2013-08-15 Thread Daniel Jensen
Warren Young wrote: > Name a currently shipping Unixy system that does *not* have Perl installed by > default. "default" seems to me to be the wrong thing to compare to cygwin base. I don't think most cygwin users would be pleased to see cygwin's base install inflated to mimic most distros' d

Re: 64-bit Cygwin installation is missing /usr/bin/lockfile

2013-08-15 Thread Steve Rowley
On Aug 14 16:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 14 16:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>On 8/13/2013 5:01 PM, Steve Rowley wrote: >>>I just installed 64-bit Cygwin on Win7, and noticed that /usr/bin/lockfile >>>is missing in my installation. [...] >> >>It's just a packaging bug. Somehow I tripped ov

binutils feature request: ld --disable-large-address-aware option

2013-08-15 Thread Christian Franke
A few programs are not compatible with --large-address-aware which is enabled by default in current x86 ld. For example cdrkit, dvd+rw-tools and smartmontools use IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_DIRECT which apparently requires user buffers below 2GiB. Using "LDFLAGS=-Wl,--disable-large-address-aware"

Cygwin 1.7.23 / OpenSSH 6.2p2 fails to allocate a pty, because it fails to seteuid on Windows 2008r2

2013-08-15 Thread Greg Swallow
Hi, I am trying to build a Windows 2008r2 base box with Packer, and then bootstrap clones of that box using Chef. I'm stumbling on Cygwin and OpenSSH. The automated install procedure, when I run Packer, does this: @echo off REM http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SjoPPpuQxuoJ

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gsl-1.16-1

2013-08-15 Thread A.R. Burgers
The cygwin gsl package (GNU Scientific Library) has been updated to 1.16-1 for both 32 and 64 bit. This is a new upstream release. For the announcement of gsl version 1.16 see: http://cygwin.com/ml/gsl-announce/2013/msg0.html The homepage for the GSL is http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ The

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cdrkit-1.1.11-1 (genisoimage, icedax, wodim)

2013-08-15 Thread Christian Franke
Version 1.1.11-1 of cdrkit is now available. http://cdrkit.org/ Packages: cdrkit-doc: ChangeLog and README files genisoimage: Create ISO/Joliet/HFS filesystem images (includes: dirsplit, geteltorito, isodebug, isodump, isoinfo, isovfy, mkzftree) icedax: Extract audio CD data wodim: Command

Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot

2013-08-15 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 12:58:02 -0400 > From: Ken Brown > CC: Eli Zaretskii > > Eli is the expert on bidi.c (he wrote it). He can probably tell you > whether you've really bumped into an emacs bug here. There's nothing wrong with bidi.c here, it just aborts because it is handed an invalid c

Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot

2013-08-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/15/2013 8:32 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 14/08/2013 10:04 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 10/08/2013 2:01 PM, Ken Brown wrote: I'm not sure that garbage collection is the underlying problem here. Agree it's probably not GC... GC would just tend to trip over any bad pointers that were lurking ar

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2013-08-15 Thread Warren Young
On 8/9/2013 11:17, Steven Penny wrote: A base 64-bit Cygwin install now requires Perl. Can this be changed? While Perl is a fine language I hardly feel it is appropriate to add that bulk to a base install. Name a currently shipping Unixy system that does *not* have Perl installed by default.

Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot

2013-08-15 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 14/08/2013 10:04 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 10/08/2013 2:01 PM, Ken Brown wrote: I'm not sure that garbage collection is the underlying problem here. Agree it's probably not GC... GC would just tend to trip over any bad pointers that were lurking around... After a rash of crashes where I e

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs*-24.3-2 (x86), emacs*-24.3-5 (x86_64)

2013-08-15 Thread Ken Brown
emacs, emacs-X11, emacs-w32, and emacs-el have been updated to version 24.3-2 on x86 and version 24.3-5 on x86_64. This is a rebuild to take advantage of the new feature in cygwin-1.7.24 announced in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2013-08/msg00041.html It fixes the bug reported in

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.24

2013-08-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I just released Cygwin 1.7.24. This is an update to get Emacs work better with the latest version of glib. Please note that the next version of Emacs will require this version of Cygwin! ===