Desperate workaround for Git 64-Bit crashes

2013-12-13 Thread Mark Stevans
Last Cygwin core update introduced disastrous (i.e. for me) Git bugs, where some commands instantly crash, e.g.: % git gc error: pack-refs died of signal 11 error: failed to run pack-refs Tried rebasing, reinstalling Git, no help. Used "strace" to help identify executable "/usr/li

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: serf-1.3.3-1

2013-12-13 Thread David Rothenberger
The serf packages have been updated to the new upstream release 1.3.3. See http://serf.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.3.3/CHANGES for more details about the changes in this release. More information about serf can be found at http://code.google.com/p/serf/. DESCRIPTION: The serf libra

Re: Recursive, case insensitive grep (2.14-1 x86-64 MS Windows) causes Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at rip=000773B2F42

2013-12-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:33:04AM -0500, Chris Betti wrote: >Segmentation fault caused when running this command in a local git >repository. Full permissions are available to the user: > >> grep -RIin "foo" . >Segmentation fault (core dumped) Sorry but I can't duplicate this so I assume it is con

grep sometimes hang on 1.7.25

2013-12-13 Thread cygwin
For some combinations of grep on 1.7.25, a simple grep statement can take 20-30 seconds. For example, the operation 'ps -el' completes almost instantaneously. Yet seemingly randomly the operation 'ps -el | grep ' often takes 30 seconds -- actually it seems to either return instantaneously or take

Cannot start rsync as service with cygrunsrv

2013-12-13 Thread cygwin
I install the rsyncd service (without apparent error) using: cygrunsrv -I "rsyncd" -d "CYGWIN rsyncd" -p /c/cygwin/bin/rsync.exe -a"--config=/c/cygwin/etc/rsyncd.conf --daemon --no-detach" -f "Rsyncd daemon service on Port 873" -e CYGWIN="ntsec" -t manual Then when I run (as admin): cygrunsrv -

Re: gtk+ applications crash when filechooser opened

2013-12-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/13/2013 2:12 AM, Carl Michal wrote: I recently started trying to port a gtk program to cygwin, and have found that my program crashes everytime it tries to open a file chooser widget. This doesn't happen with just my own programs, but also with gvim and emacs-x11. Either will start up ok,

Re: emacs won't run

2013-12-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/6/2013 8:38 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: On 12/05/13 15:40, marco atzeri wrote: In the end I got a trace file (which is over 7MB!), but it's nothing I can interpret. What should I do? Anything I should look for? any seriuos error ;-) Wish I could discern... :-) see here Problem re

Re: Problems with Cygwin symlinks on a TrueCrypt volume

2013-12-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 13 13:47, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Corinna, > > On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:53:33 +0100 you wrote: > > > ... > > I created a new snapshot with this patch. Please give the latest > > snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ a try and report back. > > First time ever I installed a Cygwin

Re: Problems with Cygwin symlinks on a TrueCrypt volume

2013-12-13 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Corinna, On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:53:33 +0100 you wrote: > ... > I created a new snapshot with this patch. Please give the latest > snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ a try and report back. First time ever I installed a Cygwin snapshot ... but it installed cleanly. More important,

PulseAudio 2.1-1 (64-bit): Failed to create secure directory: Unknown error 13

2013-12-13 Thread Nithin Kurien
Hello, I am unable to run PulseAudio on Cygwin. Operating System: Windows 8 Professional 64 bit Cygwin Setup.exe Version: 2.831 (64 bit) When I run: pulseaudio -vv this is the output: D: [(null)] core-util.c: setpriority() worked. I: [(null)] core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11. I