Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1
From this thread I gather that little or no progress has been made on addressing the root cause of this issue. It still seems to be broken with the latest 1.7 series packages. What is the proper method for getting this bug in front of the guys who maintain the openssh package? The cygwin website suggests that the mailing list is the proper channel, but it doesn't seem like anyone's seriously looking into this as an openssh issue. It's clearly affecting more than a few users and the workaround, while reliable, is quite lame. Can this please get a little bit more priority? On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Andre Loker lo...@gmx.de wrote: alland wrote: I have the same issue trying to clone a repo with a recently updated cygwin. The problem is not present in any other configurations I tried to clone with, including git/ssh built for MSys on the same computer. I can confirm the problems myself (cygwin 1.7.1, git 1.6.6.1). Also, using plink/pageant instead of OpenSSH works as a workaround for me for the moment, though it's not really convenient. -- 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 -- 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
Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1
I'm seeing very similar bad behavior from cygwin+git on win7 x64 as well as winxp x86. This bug is not confined to 64 bit platforms. This bug is new in 1.7.x--I have cygwin 1.5 installs on both of these machines that do not exhibit this failure. The problem seems to be rooted in cygwin's openssh package. If I point GIT_SSH at plink.exe (from the putty distribution) and configure pageant properly for keyless login then git works fine. -- 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
Startx on WinXP
Greetings, I've recently installd cygwin on both a win98 machine and a winxp machine. The win98 installs works great (except for being really slow, but that's a hardware issue.) On the XP side, I've installed it, but getting some strange behavior. If I do a 'startx', I get the following: [: and: unknown operand [: and: unknown operand After doing some playing around with the startx script, I've come to realize it's complaining about the bash conditional statements. As though I'm not running under bash And as far as I can see, I am. The fall out of this behavior is the inability to control which window manager gets started. I can get around that by commenting out all of the conditionals in startx, but, this seems at best a temporary work around. Am I missing something in setting up/configuring cygwin to run under XP, something that is different than win98? TIA Brian L. Walter Service Data Managemnet We treat our customers like a future depends on it www.sdm1.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.559 / Virus Database: 351 - Release Date: 1/7/2004
Re: Startx on WinXP
Thanks! That makes sense. I'll apply/look at the patch and go from there! Regards, On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 16:07, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Brian L. Walter wrote: Greetings, I've recently installd cygwin on both a win98 machine and a winxp machine. The win98 installs works great (except for being really slow, but that's a hardware issue.) On the XP side, I've installed it, but getting some strange behavior. If I do a 'startx', I get the following: [: and: unknown operand [: and: unknown operand After doing some playing around with the startx script, I've come to realize it's complaining about the bash conditional statements. As though I'm not running under bash And as far as I can see, I am. The fall out of this behavior is the inability to control which window manager gets started. I can get around that by commenting out all of the conditionals in startx, but, this seems at best a temporary work around. Am I missing something in setting up/configuring cygwin to run under XP, something that is different than win98? TIA Brian L. Walter Brian, You didn't do anything wrong. This problem is most likely due to you having either HOME or TMP set to C:\Documents and Settings\ The and in Documents and settings is what startx complains about (since it doesn't quote paths properly). I've posted a patch to startx a while ago that fixed this, but it looks like it hasn't been incorporated in the latest release. Since startx is just a text file, you can simply apply the patch yourself from http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-11/msg00314.html (use patch -p0 startx.patch in /usr/X11R6/bin). Igor -- Brian L. Walter Service Data Management We treat our customers like our future depends on it www.sdm1.com
RE: Startx on WinXP
Well, that didn't fix it. But you gave me somewhere to look. I might try the old dos way of naming directories, i.e. with the ~. I'll let ya know. Regards, Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 4:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Startx on WinXP On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Brian L. Walter wrote: Greetings, I've recently installd cygwin on both a win98 machine and a winxp machine. The win98 installs works great (except for being really slow, but that's a hardware issue.) On the XP side, I've installed it, but getting some strange behavior. If I do a 'startx', I get the following: [: and: unknown operand [: and: unknown operand After doing some playing around with the startx script, I've come to realize it's complaining about the bash conditional statements. As though I'm not running under bash And as far as I can see, I am. The fall out of this behavior is the inability to control which window manager gets started. I can get around that by commenting out all of the conditionals in startx, but, this seems at best a temporary work around. Am I missing something in setting up/configuring cygwin to run under XP, something that is different than win98? TIA Brian L. Walter Brian, You didn't do anything wrong. This problem is most likely due to you having either HOME or TMP set to C:\Documents and Settings\ The and in Documents and settings is what startx complains about (since it doesn't quote paths properly). I've posted a patch to startx a while ago that fixed this, but it looks like it hasn't been incorporated in the latest release. Since startx is just a text file, you can simply apply the patch yourself from http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-11/msg00314.html (use patch -p0 startx.patch in /usr/X11R6/bin). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster. -- Patrick Naughton --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.564 / Virus Database: 356 - Release Date: 1/19/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.564 / Virus Database: 356 - Release Date: 1/19/2004
RE: Startx on WinXP
Okay, got startx to starup with out errors. It even works great with twm. However, if I switch to mwm, by just modifying startx, it starts the manager, paints the windows and clock, but, does not recognize *any* input, either keyboard or mouse. Is this the same kind of issue? And if so, based on the documention I've read, which file do I look in? Everything referred to in the documentation describes behavior, i.e. menus etc. I don't see any path related issues.. Sigh.. TIA Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 4:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Startx on WinXP On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Brian L. Walter wrote: Greetings, I've recently installd cygwin on both a win98 machine and a winxp machine. The win98 installs works great (except for being really slow, but that's a hardware issue.) On the XP side, I've installed it, but getting some strange behavior. If I do a 'startx', I get the following: [: and: unknown operand [: and: unknown operand After doing some playing around with the startx script, I've come to realize it's complaining about the bash conditional statements. As though I'm not running under bash And as far as I can see, I am. The fall out of this behavior is the inability to control which window manager gets started. I can get around that by commenting out all of the conditionals in startx, but, this seems at best a temporary work around. Am I missing something in setting up/configuring cygwin to run under XP, something that is different than win98? TIA Brian L. Walter Brian, You didn't do anything wrong. This problem is most likely due to you having either HOME or TMP set to C:\Documents and Settings\ The and in Documents and settings is what startx complains about (since it doesn't quote paths properly). I've posted a patch to startx a while ago that fixed this, but it looks like it hasn't been incorporated in the latest release. Since startx is just a text file, you can simply apply the patch yourself from http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-11/msg00314.html (use patch -p0 startx.patch in /usr/X11R6/bin). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster. -- Patrick Naughton --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.564 / Virus Database: 356 - Release Date: 1/19/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.564 / Virus Database: 356 - Release Date: 1/19/2004
