Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

2010-04-11 Thread Steven E. Harris
been doing for many years. It distinguishes whether a package is currently installed -- or proposed to be installed -- as a result of dependency nomination or as an explicit request by the user. It prunes the former as the incident dependencies change. -- Steven E. Harris -- Problem repor

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

2010-04-08 Thread Steven E. Harris
"Steven E. Harris" writes: > "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" writes: > >> Choose the "Category" view and select the cycling arrow widget by "X11" >> until it shows "Uninstall". > > When I try that, I then see the following

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

2010-04-08 Thread Steven E. Harris
There are many more concerning fonts, GTK, and even xorg-11-xwin. If I'm asking for all X-related packages to be removed, why would I want to retain a package like xorg-x11-xwin and satisfy its dependency on xorg-server? -- Steven E. Harris -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.c

Re: installer improvements

2010-04-08 Thread Steven E. Harris
again to request that they all be removed, but there's always one that's a dependency of something else installed, and if you dare accidentally cycle through the Skip/Keep/Install/Remove choice one step too far, the house of cards tumbles down again. -- Steven E. Harris -- Problem report

Re: Defeated by "alternatives": unison

2009-12-30 Thread Steven E. Harris
Csaba Raduly writes: > You can try reinstalling unison; maybe one of the components of the > symlink chain got "lost" Reinstalling solved the problem. Thanks for the suggestion. -- Steven E. Harris -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Defeated by "alternatives": unison

2009-12-29 Thread Steven E. Harris
work as expected. Why is "unison" different? [I've tried posting this message with the cygcheck output attached, but the messages get rejected.] -- Steven E. Harris -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

High CPU consumption with git tab completion in zsh

2009-12-29 Thread Steven E. Harris
this the right place to report such a problem in more detail, or do I need to contact the git mailing list, or maybe the zsh mailing list? -- Steven E. Harris -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: ping Unison users: abandon versions 2.9.1-2.12.0 ?

2007-07-04 Thread Steven E. Harris
Andrew Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is anyone still using any of the unison2.9.1, unison2.9.20, > unison2.10.2, or unison2.12.0 packages in Cygwin? I use 2.10.2, but so long as you can provide something like 2.27.29 in its place I could move ahead and match my server.

Re: OCaml package hasn't updated for a while (Ping unison maintainer)

2007-06-29 Thread Steven E. Harris
ither one of which allowed me to coerce my Cygwin unison to choose the right version on the server. Fortunately, my ISP has retained unison 2.10.2 along with a symbolic link to it named -- forebodingly -- "unison.old". -- Steven E. Harris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.co

Re: OCaml package hasn't updated for a while (Ping unison maintainer)

2007-06-27 Thread Steven E. Harris
ground trying to get my current 2.10.2 to match up. -- Steven E. Harris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Posting problems

2005-09-04 Thread Steven E. Harris
"Steven E. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm starting to wonder if it has something to do with the cygcheck > output attachment. I'll try attaching that file to a follow-on > message to test the difference. I posted two messages with the cygcheck outp

Re: Posting problems

2005-09-04 Thread Steven E. Harris
e not received any bounce messages, but every message I send with an attachment gets dropped. -- Steven E. Harris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FA

Re: Posting problems

2005-09-04 Thread Steven E. Harris
27;ve posted that XEmacs-related about fifteen times now. I'm starting to wonder if it has something to do with the cygcheck output attachment. I'll try attaching that file to a follow-on message to test the difference. -- Steven E. Harris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#

Re: Posting problems

2005-09-04 Thread Steven E. Harris
Gregg Levine writes: > Did you get a peculiar response from the Cygwin list server? No, I have not received a response, other than the cygwin.com MTA accepting each message without complaint. -- Steven E. Harris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Prob

Posting problems

2005-09-04 Thread Steven E. Harris
have been successful, and I would then apologize for the noise. Footnotes: ¹ http://sourceware.org/lists.html#rbl-sucks -- Steven E. Harris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://

exim-4.50-1: SMTP sending fails with "Software caused connection abort"

2005-07-14 Thread Steven E. Harris
used connection abort" related to socket usage with other programs on other operating systems; I did not find any mention of exim or Cygwin. Is this a known problem? What additional information can I provide to help troubleshoot this problem? -- Steven E. Harris Cygwin Configuration Diagnos

Re: tetex 3.0.0-x problems

2005-04-27 Thread Steven E. Harris
² http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=299645 -- Steven E. Harris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Cygrunsrv and other random Cygwin apps, 100% CPU

2005-01-05 Thread Steven E. Harris
o Copy, with bash, XEmacs, and a cygrunsrv-hosted exim instance running but more or less idle. Did you notice that csrss.exe was also eating a lot of CPU time? Once I stopped all my Cygwin-related processes, csrss.exe calmed back down and all was well. -- Steven E. Harris -- Unsubscribe inf

Re: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-04 Thread Steven E. Harris
Christopher Faylor writes: > The total number of unique subscribers to cygwin, cygwin-apps, > cygwin-talk, cygwin-xfree is 2542. That count may fall short by not taking into account those who read, say, gmane.os.cygwin, but do not subscribe to the cygwin list. -- Steven E.

Re: ConTeXt broken under Cygwin?

2004-09-08 Thread Steven E. Harris
ad a more recent copy of ConTeXt." At that point, I gave up, as I was only looking to try a quick ConTeXt sample file. Running locate on cont-en.efmt and context.efmt confirms that neither file is present anywhere on my system, so I know it's not just a path or permission problem. -- S

Re: Trouble with home

2004-08-19 Thread Steven E. Harris
inked "seh" to "/mnt/c/Documents and Settings/seh/My Documents/". That way both Windows and Cygwin have the same home directory in mind. It would be nice if this scheme were automated, but then this is but one of many possible schemes. -- Steven E. Harris -- Unsubscribe

Re: patch for keychain

2004-04-02 Thread Steven E. Harris
read.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/42731 -- Steven E. Harris:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raytheon:: http://www.raytheon.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com

Re: Aspell - Ispell

2004-03-29 Thread Steven E. Harris
ll works just as ispell did before. All the (X)Emacs spelling-related commands remain the same. -- Steven E. Harris:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raytheon:: http://www.raytheon.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygw

Re: keychain patch

2004-01-15 Thread Steven E. Harris
ng the gentoo people that I don't have to maintain > local patches. I'll send them a note again. They released 2.0.8 about a week after I sent my patch, I think, and it didn't include my changes, so I assumed they had discarded my suggestions. -- Steven E. Harri

keychain patch (was: Filenames with spaces: very rare in Cygwin)

2004-01-15 Thread Steven E. Harris
] +if [ -f "$pidf" ] then - . $pidf + . "$pidf" fi # Copy application-specific environment variables into generic local variables. @@ -441,7 +444,7 @@ done if [ $skip -ne 1 ] then - missingkeys="$missingkeys $x" + missingkeys="$missingkeys${LISTS

Re: Filenames with spaces: very rare in Cygwin

2004-01-15 Thread Steven E. Harris
ce-in-filenames problems. I sent a corrective patch against keychain 2.0.3 to the two listed maintainers at the end of November, but received no reply. -- Steven E. Harris:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raytheon:: http://www.raytheon.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/

Re: Passwordless login with ssh

2003-10-16 Thread Steven E. Harris
ly help if you move the key pair elsewhere, or have access to the same home directory from multiple hosts. Footnotes: ¹ http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/ssh.html ² http://www.eviladmin.org/cvs/cvsweb.cgi/contrib/ssh-copy-id -- Steven E. Harris:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raytheon