Re: Question regarding cygwin setup.

> [1] points to [2] which has this information. > > I don't know how we can make that more obvious. > > [1] https://cygwin.com/install.html#source > [2] https://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/setup.html > Although this is quite old, I still wonder what was Jon Turney thinking when he wrote the above c

Re: I created a Japanese translation of Cygwin Setup using res/ja/res.rc without using Weblate...

I got it! I'll send it right away! On 2024/10/17 0:51, Jon Turney wrote: On 16/10/2024 00:29, 武田洋幸 via Cygwin wrote: What should I do? Please send a patch, ideally to the cygwin-apps list (subscription required to post) and formatted using 'git format-patch'. Thanks very much for working on

Re: I created a Japanese translation of Cygwin Setup using res/ja/res.rc without using Weblate...

On 16/10/2024 00:29, 武田洋幸 via Cygwin wrote: What should I do? Please send a patch, ideally to the cygwin-apps list (subscription required to post) and formatted using 'git format-patch'. Thanks very much for working on this! [1] https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-apps/setup/tree/README#n95 -- P

I created a Japanese translation of Cygwin Setup using res/ja/res.rc without using Weblate...

What should I do? -- 武田洋幸 ヽ(*´ー`*)ノ TAKEDA Hiroyuki -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Aborting Cygwin setup in unattended modes

On 22/06/2024 07:45, David Allsopp via Cygwin wrote: If Cygwin's setup requires input (for example, to select a mirror), with --quiet-mode hidden it simply terminates (there's no apparent exit status or message, though). With --quiet-mode noinput, Cygwin setup sits at the appropri

Aborting Cygwin setup in unattended modes

If Cygwin's setup requires input (for example, to select a mirror), with --quiet-mode hidden it simply terminates (there's no apparent exit status or message, though). With --quiet-mode noinput, Cygwin setup sits at the appropriate dialog, but it's of course non-responsive. Would

Re: Cygwin setup-x86_64.exe cannot install into UNC paths...

Greetings, Roland Mainz! > I tried to install Cygwin on a network share using the UNC path name Very. Bad. Idea. > (e.g. \\derfwnb4966_ipv4@2049\nfs4\storagetek\cygwintest001\), but got > this response: "The install directory must be absolute, with both a > drive letter and leading slash, like C

Re: Cygwin setup-x86_64.exe cannot install into UNC paths...

On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 1:11 PM Roland Mainz wrote: > I tried to install Cygwin on a network share using the UNC path name > (e.g. \\derfwnb4966_ipv4@2049\nfs4\storagetek\cygwintest001\), but got > this response: "The install directory must be absolute, with both a > drive letter and leading slash

Cygwin setup-x86_64.exe cannot install into UNC paths...

Hi! I tried to install Cygwin on a network share using the UNC path name (e.g. \\derfwnb4966_ipv4@2049\nfs4\storagetek\cygwintest001\), but got this response: "The install directory must be absolute, with both a drive letter and leading slash, like C:\Cygwin" ... ... is it possible to remove

Re: When displaying Chinese help information in Cygwin setup, the program does not respond. The code enters a dead loop.

On 2024-03-28 09:26, 赵伟 via Cygwin wrote: When displaying Chinese help information, the program does not respond. The code enters a dead loop in file "libgetopt++/include/getopt++/DefaultFormatter.h"， because some Chinese help information does not contain spaces. diff --git a/libgetopt++/includ

Re: Getting error 60 of curl to cygwin setup

On 2024-03-22 09:49, J M wrote: This is a very painfull and weird failed error of Windows antivirus. I apologize for not having realized before. For other people who may encounter this difficult problem,  the key to find this error is (cut connections only for sites that use Letsencrypt certif

Re: Getting error 60 of curl to cygwin setup

Hi, This is a very painfull and weird failed error of Windows antivirus. I apologize for not having realized before. For other people who may encounter this difficult problem, the key to find this error is (cut connections only for sites that use Letsencrypt certificates), is the strace /usr/bin

Re: Getting error 60 of curl to cygwin setup

9:07:02 User has backup/restore rights > 2024/03/19 19:07:02 User has symlink creation right > 2024/03/19 19:07:02 Current Directory: C:\cygwin64\mypackages > Could not open service McShield for query, start and stop. McAfee may not be > installed, or we don't have access. > 2024/0

Re: Getting error 60 of curl to cygwin setup

On 2024-03-19 11:00, J M wrote: $ file /etc/pki/tls/certs/* /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt:       symbolic link to /etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem/tls-ca-bundle.pem /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.trust.crt: symbolic link to /etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/openssl/ca-bundle.trust.crt $ grep -c '^-

Re: Getting error 60 of curl to cygwin setup

On 2024-03-19 08:02, ASSI via Cygwin wrote: J M via Cygwin writes: $ curl - -O https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe % Total% Received % Xferd Average Speed TimeTime Time Current Dload Upload Total SpentLeft Speed 0 00

Re: Getting error 60 of curl to cygwin setup

J M via Cygwin writes: > $ curl - -O https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe > % Total% Received % Xferd Average Speed TimeTime Time > Current > Dload Upload Total SpentLeft > Speed > 0 00 00 0 0 0 --:--:--

Re: Getting error 60 of curl to cygwin setup

Hi, Send data recollected: - Its strange that, I need to install curl and ca-certificates-letsencrypt, houldn't they be within the default packages? - The terminal is the default Cygwin64 Terminal. Repeated two /usr/bin/curl: $ which -a curl /usr/bin/curl /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/curl /usr

Re: Getting error 60 of curl to cygwin setup

On 2024-03-18 15:21, J M via Cygwin wrote: With a fresh install of Cygwin then I launch (with package curl installed): curl -O https://www.cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe Shows a curl 60 error ssl problem. Using -k or --insecure works, but is not recomended. Howto fix it? WJFFM! That error impli

Getting error 60 of curl to cygwin setup

Hi, With a fresh install of Cygwin then I launch (with package curl installed): curl -O https://www.cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe Shows a curl 60 error ssl problem. Using -k or --insecure works, but is not recomended. Howto fix it? Regards, Cesar Jorge -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.co

Re: MULTIPLE VULNERABILITY REPORT: Multiple DLL Hijacking Vulnerability in CygWin setup-x86_64.exe

On 06/02/2024 23:10, Kaz Kylheku via Cygwin wrote: On 2024-02-04 21:22, Suman Chakraborty via Cygwin wrote: 1. Executive Summary: The vulnerability pertains to not finding the profapi.dll, CFGMGR32.dll, edputil.dll, urlmon.dll, SspiCli.dll, Wldp.dll, MPR.dll, ServicingCommon.dll, TextShaping.d

Re: MULTIPLE VULNERABILITY REPORT: Multiple DLL Hijacking Vulnerability in CygWin setup-x86_64.exe

g for them with LoadLibrary or LoadLibraryEx explicitly, and then handling the failure gracefully? Setup itself doesn't use LoadLibrary or LoadLibraryEx. The MinGW toolchain must be introducing that somehow? It is curious. Could be any one of the proprietary DLLs pulled into Cygwin Setup: $ upx -

Re: MULTIPLE VULNERABILITY REPORT: Multiple DLL Hijacking Vulnerability in CygWin setup-x86_64.exe

On 2024-02-04 21:22, Suman Chakraborty via Cygwin wrote: > 1. Executive Summary: > > The vulnerability pertains to not finding > the profapi.dll, CFGMGR32.dll, edputil.dll, urlmon.dll, SspiCli.dll, > Wldp.dll, MPR.dll, ServicingCommon.dll, TextShaping.dll, CRYPTBASE.DLL, > PROPSYS.dll and insecu

MULTIPLE VULNERABILITY REPORT: Multiple DLL Hijacking Vulnerability in CygWin setup-x86_64.exe

Hey Cygwin Team, I hope this email finds you well. As an independent security researcher, I often explore open-source projects to identify and report potential security vulnerabilities. During my recent exploration of Cygwin, I came across a critical vulnerability in setup-x86_64.exe

VULNERABILITY REPORT: DLL Hijacking Vulnerability in CygWin setup-x86_64.exe

Hey Cygwin Team, I hope this email finds you well. As an independent security researcher, I often explore open-source projects to identify and report potential security vulnerabilities. During my recent exploration of Cygwin, I came across a critical vulnerability in setup-x86_64.exe

Re: Another confusing error from someone else's Cygwin setup

Greetings, David Karr! > I'm seeing a problem with someone else's Cygwin setup, sort of similar to a > problem I asked about a couple of weeks ago, in that it's a problem with > the same user, but seemingly a completely different problem. > He is using a Bash script

VULNERABILITY REPORT: DLL Hijacking Vulnerability in CygWin setup-x86_64.exe

Hey Cygwin Team, I hope this email finds you well. As an independent security researcher, I often explore open-source projects to identify and report potential security vulnerabilities. During my recent exploration of Cygwin, I came across a critical vulnerability in setup-x86_64.exe

VULNERABILITY REPORT: DLL Hijacking Vulnerability in CygWin setup-x86_64.exe

Hey Cygwin Team, I hope this email finds you well. As an independent security researcher, I often explore open-source projects to identify and report potential security vulnerabilities. During my recent exploration of Cygwin, I came across a critical vulnerability in setup-x86_64.exe

Re: Another confusing error from someone else's Cygwin setup

David Karr via Cygwin < > cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > > m seeing a problem with someone else's Cygwin setup, sort of similar to a > > problem I asked about a couple of weeks ago, in that it's a problem with > > the same user, but seemingly a completely diff

Re: Another confusing error from someone else's Cygwin setup

> On Monday, June 26, 2023 at 04:36:30 PM PDT, David Karr via Cygwin > wrote: > m seeing a problem with someone else's Cygwin setup, sort of similar to a > problem I asked about a couple of weeks ago, in that it's a problem with > the same user, but seemingly a com

Re: Another confusing error from someone else's Cygwin setup

On 6/26/2023 4:58 PM, Dan Harkless via Cygwin wrote: On 6/26/2023 4:35 PM, David Karr via Cygwin wrote: > > He was getting a weird error on line 3, just saying this: > > - > > ...: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `$'{\r'' > > ...: line 3: `main() { > >

Re: Another confusing error from someone else's Cygwin setup

On 6/26/2023 4:35 PM, David Karr via Cygwin wrote: > He was getting a weird error on line 3, just saying this: > - > ...: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `$'{\r'' > ...: line 3: `main() { > --- Apologies, I don't remember your other report, but this o

Another confusing error from someone else's Cygwin setup

I'm seeing a problem with someone else's Cygwin setup, sort of similar to a problem I asked about a couple of weeks ago, in that it's a problem with the same user, but seemingly a completely different problem. He is using a Bash script that I wrote, and he gets a seemingly nonsens

Re: Trying to figure out what is wrong in a colleague's Cygwin setup

Actually, I was mistaken. I was given incomplete information. I'm getting much of this second hand. Adding that to the PATH made no difference. It appears this is something specific to "kubectl". They ended up setting the KUBECONFIG environment variable to "C:\Users\\.kube\config", which is very

Re: Trying to figure out what is wrong in a colleague's Cygwin setup

> Ok, well, we managed to resolve this, but I don't understand why what we > did would fix this. > In system environment variables in Windows, they added "c:\cygwin64\bin" to > the end of the PATH. That fixes the problem. That just doesn't make any > sense to me. In a Cygwin shell, "/usr/bin" is i

Re: Trying to figure out what is wrong in a colleague's Cygwin setup

Ok, well, we managed to resolve this, but I don't understand why what we did would fix this. In system environment variables in Windows, they added "c:\cygwin64\bin" to the end of the PATH. That fixes the problem. That just doesn't make any sense to me. In a Cygwin shell, "/usr/bin" is in the PATH

Re: Trying to figure out what is wrong in a colleague's Cygwin setup

(I replied with this earlier directly to someone who I didn't realize had only replied to me.) I do have a couple other clues that I've noticed while continuing to debug this. This person also has "git bash" installed, which is certainly similar to Cygwin, but not quite the same. In his gitbash

Trying to figure out what is wrong in a colleague's Cygwin setup

I have been using Cygwin for many years, although I wouldn't call myself an advanced user. I'm working with some much newer users. They set up Cygwin, but I didn't see them do it. I ran "uname -a" and it was about the same as mine. I compared the output of "env|sort" and I saw some differences,

Re: Cygwin setup reporter as malware

Dan Harkless via Cygwin wrote: On 12/9/2022 3:39 AM, Oskar Skog via Cygwin wrote: On 2022-12-07 23:54, Dan Harkless via Cygwin wrote: > No.  It's normal and common for software like Cygwin, which has the > power to be used maliciously (as opposed to, say, a Minesweeper game or > something), t

Re: Cygwin setup reporter as malware

On 12/9/2022 3:39 AM, Oskar Skog via Cygwin wrote: On 2022-12-07 23:54, Dan Harkless via Cygwin wrote: > No.  It's normal and common for software like Cygwin, which has the > power to be used maliciously (as opposed to, say, a Minesweeper game or > something), to have false positives on VirusT

Re: Cygwin setup reporter as malware

On 2022-12-07 23:54, Dan Harkless via Cygwin wrote: No.  It's normal and common for software like Cygwin, which has the power to be used maliciously (as opposed to, say, a Minesweeper game or something), to have false positives on VirusTotal for a handful of vendors.  I've never heard of Secur

Re: Cygwin setup reporter as malware

On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 9:21 AM Sylwester Rutkowski wrote: The setup-x86_64.exe is reported as malicious at > https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/edd0a64dc65087ffe453ca94b267169b39458a983b29ac31320fcaa983d0f97e/detection > > Can this be resolved somehow? This is, of course, a false positive. The

Re: Cygwin setup reporter as malware

On 12/7/2022 8:20 AM, Sylwester Rutkowski via Cygwin wrote:Hi, The setup-x86_64.exe is reported as malicious at https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/edd0a64dc65087ffe453ca94b267169b39458a983b29ac31320fcaa983d0f97e/detection Can this be resolved somehow? No.  It's normal and common for software

Cygwin setup reporter as malware

Hi, The setup-x86_64.exe is reported as malicious at https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/edd0a64dc65087ffe453ca94b267169b39458a983b29ac31320fcaa983d0f97e/detection Can this be resolved somehow? Thanks, Sylwester -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Does the Cygwin setup program do internal sanity checks on startup?

Greetings, Brian Cowan! Please bottom post in this list. And trim unnecessary quoting. > Well, is it possible to use 7zip? It seems like you can do something like > it in: > https://superuser.com/questions/42788/is-it-possible-to-execute-a-file-after-extraction-from-a-7-zip-self-extracting-a > N

RE: Does the Cygwin setup program do internal sanity checks on startup?

on Turney Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2022 11:46 AM To: The Cygwin Mailing List Subject: Re: Does the Cygwin setup program do internal sanity checks on startup? [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the sender, Don't click links or open attachments as it ma

Re: Does the Cygwin setup program do internal sanity checks on startup?

On 25/08/2022 19:14, Brian Cowan via Cygwin wrote: And this was exactly it. I downloaded the latest UPX version, and it crashed on startup. I downloaded the Linux version on another host, copied the setup program to that host and extracted it there. NOW I can update Cygwin... I wonder if UPX co

RE: Does the Cygwin setup program do internal sanity checks on startup?

brian.co...@hcl.com -Original Message- From: Jon Turney Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2022 1:12 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com; Brian Cowan Subject: Re: Does the Cygwin setup program do internal sanity checks on startup? [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the

Re: Does the Cygwin setup program do internal sanity checks on startup?

On 25/08/2022 17:52, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 08:46:10PM +, Brian Cowan via Cygwin wrote: >>Does the Cygwin setup program do internal sanity checks on startup? Not as such. And if it did, the behaviour when the fails should be to say those checks have failed,

Re: Does the Cygwin setup program do internal sanity checks on startup?

On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 08:46:10PM +, Brian Cowan via Cygwin wrote: > Why would I ask that question? Because I have a host running a > hodgepodge of company-mandated security software, and -- only on that > host -- the Cygwin setup tool crashes... > > Oddities: > 1. The cras

Does the Cygwin setup program do internal sanity checks on startup?

Why would I ask that question? Because I have a host running a hodgepodge of company-mandated security software, and -- only on that host -- the Cygwin setup tool crashes... Oddities: 1. The crash generates 3 dump files when I use procdump, which is odd since I "normally" only get 2

Re: Installing latest Cygwin setup on Win7 Prof system fails to correctly setup Cygwin64 Terminal shortcut...

Greetings, G. Wong! > Hi, > After installing Cygwin via setup-x86_64.exe, it creates a Cygwin64 > Terminal shortcut on the desktop but no target is defined in it. Clicking > on the shortcut obviously fails to start a shell console. > I did install the cygwin64 root directory to a different drive

Installing latest Cygwin setup on Win7 Prof system fails to correctly setup Cygwin64 Terminal shortcut...

Hi, After installing Cygwin via setup-x86_64.exe, it creates a Cygwin64 Terminal shortcut on the desktop but no target is defined in it. Clicking on the shortcut obviously fails to start a shell console. I did install the cygwin64 root directory to a different drive letter, D:\cygwin64, instead of

Re: Cygwin setup writing incorrect symlinks for native

On 12/01/2022 16:03, David Allsopp wrote: Jon Turney wrote: Please try: https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.915.x86_64.exe https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.915.x86.exe That's working (for cmd as well), thanks! Great! Thanks for reporting this problem and testing my several attempts

RE: Cygwin setup writing incorrect symlinks for native

Jon Turney wrote: > On 09/01/2022 09:35, David Allsopp wrote: > > Jon Turney wrote: > >> On 06/01/2022 16:45, David Allsopp wrote: > >>> Jon Turney wrote: > >>>> On 06/01/2022 10:46, David Allsopp wrote: > >>>>> Running C

Re: Cygwin setup writing incorrect symlinks for native

On 09/01/2022 09:35, David Allsopp wrote: Jon Turney wrote: On 06/01/2022 16:45, David Allsopp wrote: Jon Turney wrote: On 06/01/2022 10:46, David Allsopp wrote: Running Cygwin setup 2.912 with --symlink-type native (or CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native) is not correctly translating all symlinks. A

RE: Cygwin setup writing incorrect symlinks for native

Jon Turney wrote: > On 06/01/2022 16:45, David Allsopp wrote: > > Jon Turney wrote: > >> On 06/01/2022 10:46, David Allsopp wrote: > >>> Running Cygwin setup 2.912 with --symlink-type native (or > >>> CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native) is not correctly translating

Re: Cygwin setup writing incorrect symlinks for native

On 06/01/2022 16:45, David Allsopp wrote: Jon Turney wrote: On 06/01/2022 10:46, David Allsopp wrote: Running Cygwin setup 2.912 with --symlink-type native (or CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native) is not correctly translating all symlinks. A default install has these faulty ones: /etc/pki/tls/cert.pem

RE: Cygwin setup writing incorrect symlinks for native

Jon Turney wrote: > On 06/01/2022 10:46, David Allsopp wrote: > > Running Cygwin setup 2.912 with --symlink-type native (or > > CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native) is not correctly translating all symlinks. > > A default install has these faulty ones: > > > > /etc/pki/tl

Re: Cygwin setup writing incorrect symlinks for native

On 06/01/2022 10:46, David Allsopp wrote: Running Cygwin setup 2.912 with --symlink-type native (or CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native) is not correctly translating all symlinks. A default install has these faulty ones: /etc/pki/tls/cert.pem -> \??\/etc\pki\ca-trust\extracted\pem\tls-ca-bundle.pem /

Cygwin setup writing incorrect symlinks for native

Running Cygwin setup 2.912 with --symlink-type native (or CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native) is not correctly translating all symlinks. A default install has these faulty ones: /etc/pki/tls/cert.pem -> \??\/etc\pki\ca-trust\extracted\pem\tls-ca-bundle.pem /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt -> \??\/e

Re: cygwin setup version 2.909 not installing (silent mode) - bug or user error?

On 22/09/2021 02:50, Richard Beels via Cygwin wrote: At 9/21/2021 at 12:28, Shakespearean monkeys danced on Jason Pyeron's keyboard and said: If the last execution of the setup used download only and the setup is used with -q and without either -D or -L it still defaults to -D Adding -Y does

Re: cygwin setup version 2.909 not installing (silent mode) - bug or user error?

At 9/21/2021 at 12:28, Shakespearean monkeys danced on Jason Pyeron's keyboard and said: If the last execution of the setup used download only and the setup is used with -q and without either -D or -L it still defaults to -D Adding -Y does not change the behavior either. Workaround was to l

cygwin setup version 2.909 not installing (silent mode) - bug or user error?

If the last execution of the setup used download only and the setup is used with -q and without either -D or -L it still defaults to -D Adding -Y does not change the behavior either. Workaround was to launch setup, advance to “select download source”, select install, advance to next scree

running cygwin setup via windows sshd

For anyone who likes to try: Windows server 2019 x64 User: domain\jenkins$ is a gmsa Here is my working SSH invocation, after adding my user to the local administrators - will update later to use --no-admin: $ ssh oss-cygwin-jenkins-node -l 'jenkins$' -t 'c:\inst\setup-x86_64.exe -q -f -R c:\c

Re: Strange paths in NTFS reparse points created by Cygwin Setup for e.g. TTF fonts

On 2020/11/08 06:40, Michael Soegtrop wrote: What I don't understand is why it does work sometimes and sometimes not. I always use the same scripts to install and remove cygwin on the same machines and then do pretty much the same thing with this cygwin (build our open source software) befor

Re: Strange paths in NTFS reparse points created by Cygwin Setup for e.g. TTF fonts

On 11/8/2020 9:40 AM, Michael Soegtrop wrote: Why shouldn't I be able to remove symlinks with rm -rf from within a cygwin? As far as I understand the standard behavior of "rm" is to remove the symlink and not its target. What I do when I remove a cygwin installation in our CI is an "rm -rf" fro

Re: Strange paths in NTFS reparse points created by Cygwin Setup for e.g. TTF fonts

Hi Ken, L A Walsh, > But you can change this if you don't like it, as I said in my reply to your earlier message about this: I don't know if I like it yet - I am still in the process of understanding what is going on. I maintain the Windows build of a large open source project and we also

Re: Strange paths in NTFS reparse points created by Cygwin Setup for e.g. TTF fonts

On 2020/11/05 13:41, Michael Soegtrop via Cygwin wrote: I wonder if the path "/mnt/c/Windows/Fonts/wingding.ttf" is something which should be written into a NTFS reparse point by cygwin setup. Probably not - it looks like a cygwin path and it is understandable that this con

Re: Strange paths in NTFS reparse points created by Cygwin Setup for e.g. TTF fonts

73 2f 46 6f 6e 74 73  2f 77 69 6e 67 64 69 6e  ws/Fonts/wingdin 0020:  67 2e 74 74 66    g.ttf I wonder if the path "/mnt/c/Windows/Fonts/wingding.ttf" is something which should be written into a NTFS reparse point by cygwin setup. Probably not - it l

Strange paths in NTFS reparse points created by Cygwin Setup for e.g. TTF fonts

66g.ttf I wonder if the path "/mnt/c/Windows/Fonts/wingding.ttf" is something which should be written into a NTFS reparse point by cygwin setup. Probably not - it looks like a cygwin path and it is understandable that this confuses NTFS. Btw.: I mean

Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it?

P.S. Now I too need to correct my previous email to the list. What *really* did, which worked around the issue for me, was the more conservative "chmod u+w". On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 6:07 AM My Name wrote: > I tried chmod a+w in the meantime and confirmed it works around the issue. > Thanks for s

Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it?

I tried chmod a+w in the meantime and confirmed it works around the issue. Thanks for suggesting it. On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 2:01 AM Henry S. Thompson wrote: > Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin writes: > > > My Name via Cygwin writes: > > > >> Thank you, but I find catalog already present, as a file

Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it?

Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin writes: > My Name via Cygwin writes: > >> Thank you, but I find catalog already present, as a file rather than a >> directory; so I'll hold off unless you say mkdir is really what I should do: > > No, the file is correct. The following worked for me: > > > chmod a+x

Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it?

My Name via Cygwin writes: > Thank you, but I find catalog already present, as a file rather than a > directory; so I'll hold off unless you say mkdir is really what I should do: No, the file is correct. The following worked for me: > chmod a+x /etc/xml/catalog > /etc/postinstall/fontconfig_d

Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it?

BTW, Cygwin Setup 64 showed me that error message at the end of installing this set of Cygwin packages: python27, bzr, emacs-w32, aspell, aspell-en, octave. On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 11:13 PM My Name wrote: > Thank you, but I find catalog already present, as a file rather than a > directo

Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it?

Thank you, but I find catalog already present, as a file rather than a directory; so I'll hold off unless you say mkdir is really what I should do: = $ cat /etc/xml/catalog http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/release/1.0/catalog.dtd";> $ = On Sun, Ju

Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it?

On 22.06.2020 04:48, My Name via Cygwin wrote: [image: CygwinSetup64ErrorMessage-000.png] /var/log/setup: === ... 2020/06/21 17:21:30 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/fontconfig_dtd.sh" could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving

Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it?

[image: CygwinSetup64ErrorMessage-000.png] /var/log/setup: === ... 2020/06/21 17:21:30 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/fontconfig_dtd.sh" could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving add command failed 2020/06/21 17:21:30 abnormal e

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Re: Cygwin setup signing public key update

On 13/03/2020 16:34, Jon Turney wrote: On 13/03/2020 16:13, Jon Turney wrote: This is an announcement of an update to the key used to sign (i) Cygwin setup executables, and (ii) the (compressed) setup.ini package manifest. If you just run setup, and update it when it tells you to update it

Re: Cygwin setup error

On 2020-04-21 12:33, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: > Am 21.04.2020 um 18:08 schrieb Antonio Cesar Rosa: >> I do not think so. See the output from Virustotal: >> 2431de4597a2162f3e1d60af90f638b41677265b07cc66fcb0231fdde452c841 >> setup-x86_64.exe 1.29 MB 2020-04-21 00:31:19 UTC >> Size >> 15 hours

Re: Cygwin setup error

Am 21.04.2020 um 18:08 schrieb Antonio Cesar Rosa: Hello, I do not think so. See the output from Virustotal: 2431de4597a2162f3e1d60af90f638b41677265b07cc66fcb0231fdde452c841 setup-x86_64.exe 1.29 MB 2020-04-21 00:31:19 UTC Size 15 hours ago 64bits direct-cpu-clock-access overlay peexe runtime-

Re: Cygwin setup error

Am 21.04.2020 um 17:29 schrieb Antonio Cesar Rosa via Cygwin: Good afternoon, I am trying to run setup for Windows 7 X64 server, setup_x86-64.exe file but my AVG anti-virus blocked the file said it contains IDP.Generic issue. Could you tell me if this issue is already reported for you and what

Cygwin setup error

Good afternoon, I am trying to run setup for Windows 7 X64 server, setup_x86-64.exe file but my AVG anti-virus blocked the file said it contains IDP.Generic issue. Could you tell me if this issue is already reported for you and what is the fix for this issue? Best Regards, Antonio Cesar

Re: Possible Cygwin setup regression with --prune-install

On 2019-08-29, Shaddy Baddah wrote: > I have a use-case for Cygwin setup, which I admit will seem strange, > whereby I want it to do an "Install" with no packages selected at all. > ie., just setup a "skeleton" of a Cygwin install. I value it, because > based m

Re: Possible Cygwin setup regression with --prune-install

ght Windows ACL, etc. I'd then fill in /etc, setup my launching batch file, and away I go. It's worked very well for me for years. I'd never expect the support of the list to continue this practice. I just lament losing what I see as the "elegant" approach I had to

Re: Possible Cygwin setup regression with --prune-install

Shaddy Baddah writes: > -Y --prune-install Prune the installation to only the requested > packages > > My reading of that is that this should defeat any packages from being > (automatically added). However, even with this option, the base packages > are still autoselected. I've originally impleme

Possible Cygwin setup regression with --prune-install

Hi, I have a use-case for Cygwin setup, which I admit will seem strange, whereby I want it to do an "Install" with no packages selected at all. ie., just setup a "skeleton" of a Cygwin install. I value it, because based my own experience with the Cygwin setup code, it seem

Re: Cygwin Setup Changelog

Am 14.09.2018 um 11:13 schrieb WST CI: Is there somewhere that I can get a public changelog of the updates to cygwin-setup-x86_64.exe, etc? I want to save on support hours by only updating this file when there is a security update, however I can't seem to find a public changelog.

Cygwin Setup Changelog

Is there somewhere that I can get a public changelog of the updates to cygwin-setup-x86_64.exe, etc? I want to save on support hours by only updating this file when there is a security update, however I can't seem to find a public changelog. -- Problem reports: http://cygwi

Re: Cygwin setup (x86_64 - v2.893) : listed of packages selected ignored

On 23/08/2018 17:39, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/23/2018 11:59 AM, Kptain wrote:   Hi all,   When I try to use Cygwin setup by specifying list of package to download, all of them are ignored.   I'm using -P option line this:   setup-x86_64_2.893.exe -v -d -N -n -D -B -g -A -a x86_64 -p

Re: Cygwin setup (x86_64 - v2.893) : listed of packages selected ignored

Ok thanks for your help. It works correctly by removing spaces. -- Sent from: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Cygwin-list-f3.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Uns

Re: Cygwin setup (x86_64 - v2.893) : listed of packages selected ignored

On 8/23/2018 11:59 AM, Kptain wrote: Hi all, When I try to use Cygwin setup by specifying list of package to download, all of them are ignored. I'm using -P option line this: setup-x86_64_2.893.exe -v -d -N -n -D -B -g -A -a x86_64 -p http://appgw.fcomp.com:80 -P a2ps ,attr

Cygwin setup (x86_64 - v2.893) : listed of packages selected ignored

Hi all, When I try to use Cygwin setup by specifying list of package to download, all of them are ignored. I'm using -P option line this: setup-x86_64_2.893.exe -v -d -N -n -D -B -g -A -a x86_64 -p http://appgw.fcomp.com:80 -P a2ps ,attr ,base-cygwin ,base-files ,bash ,bash-compl

Re: Cygwin Setup 2.893 on Windows 10 Version 1709

cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin Setup 2.893 on Windows 10 Version 1709 Am 14.08.2018 um 14:26 schrieb Senden, Ruediger: Hello The executed command line inside a .VBE program is Errorcode is -1 cmd.exe /c d2u.exe -f -q -k SOURCEFILE.DAT && rcp SOURCEFILE.DAT USER-at-SERVER:DISKNAME:[D

Re: Cygwin Setup 2.893 on Windows 10 Version 1709

Am 14.08.2018 um 14:26 schrieb Senden, Ruediger: Hello The executed command line inside a .VBE program is Errorcode is -1 cmd.exe /c d2u.exe -f -q -k SOURCEFILE.DAT && rcp SOURCEFILE.DAT USER-at-SERVER:DISKNAME:[DIRECTORY]TARGETFILE.DAT && u2d.exe -f -q -k SOURCEFILE.DAT 2>1>3 Er

Cygwin Setup 2.893 on Windows 10 Version 1709

Hello The executed command line inside a .VBE program is Errorcode is -1 cmd.exe /c d2u.exe -f -q -k SOURCEFILE.DAT && rcp SOURCEFILE.DAT USER-at-SERVER:DISKNAME:[DIRECTORY]TARGETFILE.DAT && u2d.exe -f -q -k SOURCEFILE.DAT 2>1>3 Errorcode is 1 Message: Copy successful BUT NOTHIN

Re: Cygwin Setup Version

On 02/02/2018 14:01, Juergen Ernst Guenther wrote: Hello, sorry for bothering you. Firstly, do not send me personal email. Please read http://cygwin.com/problems.html#personal-email, particularly the section starting "Shouldn't I just send email to straight to a Cygwin developer or package

Re: Question regarding cygwin setup.

> [1] points to [2] which has this information. > > I don't know how we can make that more obvious. > > [1] https://cygwin.com/install.html#source > [2] https://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/setup.html > I can't get over the fact that you were being cynical. Now, I a

Re: Question regarding cygwin setup.

> https://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/setup.html > > See README for building instruction > > > > Regards > Marco > Thanks Marco. Regards, Amit -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Re: Question regarding cygwin setup.

[1] points to [2] which has this information. > > I don't know how we can make that more obvious. > Please bear with me. Please don't be cynical. > > [1] https://cygwin.com/install.html#source > [2] https://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/setup.html > I will try to fix it. Regards, Amit -- Proble

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