Re: Windows Server 2008 64-bit setup.exe/bash problem - Amazon Cloud

2010-09-20 Thread Ernest Mueller
Hey, great find, I'm glad to know that this wasn't all "me being crazy." I'm impressed this went from problem ID to a new test kernel version in 2 months flat. I've pinged Amazon to see if they can get on the track of this too; I suspect they aren't exactly uptaking kernel changes quickly but we'l

Re: Question on Java and Cygwin

2010-07-30 Thread Ernest Mueller
cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com wrote on 07/30/2010 04:43:46 PM: > On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 13:55 -0500, Ernest Mueller wrote: > > We are trying to launch some Java apps from within Cygwin. The problem > > we're having is that then Java file IO operations want to use Windows paths

Re: Question on Java and Cygwin

2010-07-30 Thread Ernest Mueller
PM, Ernest Mueller wrote: > > We are trying to launch some Java apps from within Cygwin. The problem > we're having is that then Java file IO operations want to use Windows paths > and use \ as the default path separator. (This is different from classpath > problems or usin

Question on Java and Cygwin

2010-07-30 Thread Ernest Mueller
We are trying to launch some Java apps from within Cygwin. The problem we're having is that then Java file IO operations want to use Windows paths and use \ as the default path separator. (This is different from classpath problems or using cygpath to convert stuff you're passing in on the comman

Re: Windows Server 2008 64-bit setup.exe/bash problem - Amazon Cloud

2010-07-15 Thread Ernest Mueller
Michael, did you ever find a fix for this? I had to give up on cygwin on the Amazon 64-bit and instead cobbled together freesshd and random freewares. Larry or others - what's the "right way" to report this as a bug? I think working on newer 64-bit OSes is pretty important... And it should be t

Re: Windows Server 2008 64-bit setup.exe/bash problem - Amazon Cloud

2010-06-30 Thread Ernest Mueller
> Larry Hall \(Cygwin\) wrote: > No stack trace. Hm. Well, you could try installing a snapshot with source > and debug info and see if you can get gdb to show you something more useful/ > interesting, at least in terms of a backtrace, if nothing else. Unfortunately, I'm not a programmer and wou

Re: Windows Server 2008 64-bit setup.exe/bash problem - Amazon Cloud

2010-06-30 Thread Ernest Mueller
Larry Hall \(Cygwin\) wrote: > On 6/30/2010 9:38 AM, Michael Higgins wrote: > > I am unable to install Cygwin on a Windows Datacenter 2008 server image > > running in the Amazon Web Services cloud. > > > > The install process fails at the execution of the post install > scripts with a > > bash segm

Re: Windows Server 2008 64-bit setup.exe/bash problem - Amazon Cloud

2010-06-30 Thread Ernest Mueller
I promise this is not me posting under another name! Well, it's good to hear someone else is having this exact problem too at least. Michael, I haven't found any solution to this yet. Ernest __ UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT information is ENCOURA

Re: Windows Server 2008 64-bit setup.exe/bash problem

2010-06-29 Thread Ernest Mueller
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Re: Windows Server 2008 64-bit setup.exe/bash problem

2010-06-17 Thread Ernest Mueller
> Try turning on Vista compatibility for the setup.exe. And later for MinTTY or > any terminal, if you use it. Another good suggestion... In 2008 there's not a Vista compatibility option, but there are XP and Server 2003 options; I tried installing it with XP compatibility set on setup.exe but st

Re: Windows Server 2008 64-bit setup.exe/bash problem

2010-06-16 Thread Ernest Mueller
Sent by:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com On 16/06/2010 21:55, Ernest Mueller wrote: > [ ... ] Windows 2008 [ ... ] 32-bit one works [ ... ] 64-bit [ ... ] > segfaults. > [ ... ] Ideas welcome! Di

Windows Server 2008 64-bit setup.exe/bash problem

2010-06-16 Thread Ernest Mueller
Hey all. I was installing cygwin+openSSH on a couple systems and came across an issue. I was installing on the stock Amazon EC2 Windows 2008 Server builds. The 32-bit one works perfectly. On 64-bit, however, bash and all don't come in right. Setup scripts don't run and bash segfaults. I'm ins