XDMCP connection hangs, then blanks, after a while

2024-04-29 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
, and will probably give up and go back to that, but it has some frustrating niggles of its own... Thanks, ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk

Re: Help with use of pgrep or pkill commands with full name options

2024-03-23 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
ives _also_ differ, but that pgrep -f /usr/bin/bash and pgrep -f /bin/bash both work and give the same results. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND e-mail:

Another possible python3.9 regression, mercurial spins but never wins?

2024-02-22 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
hangesets add changeset f3ab63e5c39f [stuck, hard to kill, manager shows 10--20% CPU] Server python/mercurial installation hasn't changed. Server logs show no errors, finishing with a getbundle request that has completed successfully. Is this related to other already-signalled problems? ht --

Re: Creating a desktop shortcut to Cygwin emacs

2024-02-22 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
ygxemacs.xml http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance; xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="run2.xsd"> -l -c /usr/local/bin/xemacs-21.5-b35 ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Cri

Re: R install.package() bug

2023-12-02 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
Marco Atzeri via Cygwin writes: > As work around: > > $ tar -xf DBI-1.1.3.tar.gz > > ... > > $ tar -xzf DBI-1.1.3.tar.gz DBI-1.1.3 Argh ^ I'm pretty sure that will just undo the fix! Cut-and-paste error? I think what's wanted is $ tar -czf DBI-1.1.3.tar.gz DBI-1.1.3

Re: OSError: Unsupported platform 'CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19044'

2023-02-20 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
> > More work to be done. Two things to try: 1) Run python from an elevated shell (unlikely to make a difference); 2) Same strategy -- edit _nixcommon.py to always return true from ensure_root. Good luck, ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edi

Re: OSError: Unsupported platform 'CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19044'

2023-02-20 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19044']: If that doesn't work, try a similar edit on line 123. One way or the other, you should find out what the _real_ problem is. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440

Re: Qt5 for python3.9?

2023-01-24 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
Marco Atzeri via Cygwin writes: > On 23.01.2023 20:45, Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin wrote: >> The existing python3-pyqt5 package installs into the python3.6 tree, >> and doesn't work with python3.9. >> >> ... > check > > python39-pyqt5

Qt5 for python3.9?

2023-01-23 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
, python3.9 and pip are all up-to-date as of today. Thanks, ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: man-db-2.11.2-1

2023-01-15 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
. A quick scan of this reveals 86 warnings: 54 whatis parse for ... failed 29 bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request 3 is a dangling symlink Are any of these of any interest to ordinary users, as opposed to package maintainers? ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edi

Re: gpg-agent stuck at 100%

2022-08-11 Thread Henry S. Thompson
fter a week or two it goes rogue. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed

gpg-agent stuck at 100%

2022-08-02 Thread Henry S. Thompson
OK for another week or so. Anyone else experiencing this? Any advice on how to debug? Thanks, ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail

Re: Python without X11?

2022-04-05 Thread Henry S. Thompson
rver but how to > manage the same with Python? May not be quite what you want, but I have a Windows Python2.7 plus Windows Tkinter/tcl/tk application that still works just fine. You could try installing a Windows Python 3 and Tkinter/tcl/tk, assuming there is such a thing... ht -- He

Re: [cygwin] Re: OpenSSH 8.9p1-1 Connects successfully but then hangs - Killing ssh-agent resolves the issue

2022-04-03 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Jason Pyeron writes: >> -Original Message- >> From: Henry S. Thompson >> Sent: Friday, April 1, 2022 5:21 AM >> >> Jim Garrison via Cygwin writes: >> >> > My Cygwin ssh client stopped working... It would successfully connect to >> > .

Re: OpenSSH 8.9p1-1 Connects successfully but then hangs - Killing ssh-agent resolves the issue

2022-04-01 Thread Henry S. Thompson
quot;ssh-agent" "100% CPU" to see what the likely culprits are. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk

Re: emacs-everywhere

2022-03-08 Thread Henry S. Thompson
ilar and in many ways easier to use is pyautogui: https://pypi.org/project/PyAutoGUI/ It has worked well for me in cases where I used to use xdotool. Your mileage may vary... ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB,

Re: CygwinPaltform Identification

2022-02-09 Thread Henry S. Thompson
; [5]="x86_64-unknown-cygwin") declare -x Cygwin="server" declare -- MACHTYPE="x86_64-unknown-cygwin" declare -- OSTYPE="cygwin" declare -x PATH=... ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

mingw64-x86_64-libidn2 is out-of-date, causes linking fail

2022-02-05 Thread Henry S. Thompson
s, ht [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1683812 -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk

Re: python3.9 failing?

2021-12-23 Thread Henry S. Thompson
you've 'fixed' the problem, you haven't actually fixed its underlying cause, which is the same as mine, fixed per suggestion by as follows. This allows mercurial to work with python3.9, as it should. Marco Atzeri writes: > On 21.12.2021 14:12, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >> Sometime recently

Re: python3.9 failing?

2021-12-21 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Marco Atzeri writes: > On 21.12.2021 14:12, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >> Sometime recently python3 stopped working, I suspect when it became >> patched through to python3.9. > please upgrade/reinstall cygwin 3.3.3 > with all Cygwin processes off > > 3533k 2021/0

XEmacs versus Cygwin 3.3 (was Re: Another pipe-related problem?)

2021-12-08 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin writes: > [XEmacs no longer works with Cygwin 3.3] > Ken Brown writes: > >> The main change was that we stopped using Win32 Overlapped I/O >> (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sync/synchronization-and-overlapped-input-and-output) >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Re-Released: man-db-2.9.4-2.1 (x86_64 only)

2021-11-28 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
pected? Rough summary: 54 whatis parse for ... failed 35 bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request 23 can't open ...: No such file or directory 12 ... is self referencing 3 ... is a dangling symlink 1 ignoring bogus filename ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Infor

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: man-db-2.9.4-2

2021-11-28 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
2.9.4-2 OK ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http:/

New pipe code means a gold star is merited

2021-11-10 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
for Ken Brown and Takashi Yano, don't you think? ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk URL

Re: Another pipe-related problem?

2021-11-10 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
(I use XEmacs all day every day from my day job, so I need to stay with 3.2 until we fix this). So, this may take a while, unless someone else hits the problem and finds a simpler test case. Thanks again, ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 1

Re: Another pipe-related problem?

2021-11-10 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
Argh. Thanks for the hard labour on this. This is not a part of the XEmacs code I have any experience of. Is there any clue you can give about how things changed in all the September commits to fhandler_pipe.cc that might have exposed the XEmacs bug? ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Inf

Re: Another pipe-related problem?

2021-11-09 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
3.2 and 3.3.0, so certainly _could_ be the culprit. I've never tried to build my own Cygwin... Thanks, ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587,

Re: Another pipe-related problem?

2021-11-09 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
Ken Brown via Cygwin writes: > On 11/8/2021 8:12 AM, Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin wrote: >> Running on Windows-10 21H1 >> >> With Cygwin 3.3.0 and 3.3.1 I get a hang every time I try to launch XEmacs: >> >> .. >> #6 0x00018013ffcc in read (fd=3, pt

Another pipe-related problem?

2021-11-08 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
, has worked since 2015 (!), but recompiling didn't help. Reverting to 3.2 lets it run again. I can try to debug further if instructed in how to do so, but constructing a simple test case is beyond me... ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10

Re: [HEADSUP] Phasing out old Windows versions and 32 bit support [XEmacs for 64-bit?]

2021-10-28 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
e because it _only_ compiled with gcc, not with native Windows C tool chain. I still use it every day, it crashes about once a week. Given the demise of 32-bit, I'll try to get back to it some time in the next few months, but there's other stuff in the queue ahead of that... ht -- Henry S.

Re: Can't ssh to cygwin after switching sign-in to Windows Hello PIN

2021-09-21 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
L A Walsh writes: > On 2021/09/15 12:53, Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin wrote: >> frankly, it seems like a bug, and >> if Microsoft succeeds in moving more people to using PINs for login, >> it will surely begin to bite others... > > > Isn't the idea of

Re: Can't ssh to cygwin after switching sign-in to Windows Hello PIN

2021-09-15 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
Brian Inglis writes: > On 2021-09-12 16:05, Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin wrote: >> Running cygwin 3.2.0-1 on Windows 10 Pro 21H1 >> Since changing my login from local User to Windows Hello PIN, I can't >> ssh in to my machine using a password: neither the PIN nor my

Re: Can't ssh to cygwin after switching sign-in to Windows Hello PIN

2021-09-15 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin writes: > Running cygwin 3.2.0-1 on Windows 10 Pro 21H1 > > Since changing my login from local User to Windows Hello PIN, I can't > ssh in to my machine using a password: neither the PIN nor my old > password work: > > 1) If from my machine I

Re: Can't ssh to cygwin after switching sign-in to Windows Hello PIN

2021-09-13 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
Andrey Repin writes: > Greetings, Henry S. Thompson! > >> Running cygwin 3.2.0-1 on Windows 10 Pro 21H1 > >> Since changing my login from local User to Windows Hello PIN, I can't >> ssh in to my machine using a password: neither the PIN nor my old >> pas

Can't ssh to cygwin after switching sign-in to Windows Hello PIN

2021-09-12 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
having switched to using a PIN? Thanks, ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www

Re: Tee and file redirections are very slow to write anything.

2021-02-25 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
report, that is, no output until end of job. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk URL

Re: Package "python" removed from default package selection

2020-12-30 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
-> pydoc2.7 lrwxrwxrwx Marco/Kein 0 2020-12-28 08:57 usr/bin/python2 -> python2.7.exe -rw-rw-r-- Marco/Kein 46 2020-12-28 08:57 usr/share/man/man1/python2.1.gz ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB,

Re: Help with setting Cygwin's Emacs W32 TRAMP to WSL 1

2020-11-26 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
Oleksandr Gavenko via Cygwin writes: > ... > WSL1 files are "hidden" for regular access. I probably misunderstand, but I can see my WSL/Ubuntu files via this path from Cygwin: /c/Users/ht/AppData/Local/Packages/CanonicalGroupLimited.../LocalState/rootfs ht -- Henry S.

Re: Problem with output from gawk software in recent Cygwin installation

2020-07-27 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
e, separated by spaces; however, now the gawk > software is automatically adding hard-returns between the values The script hasn't changed, but before we know it's gawk that's changed, we need to check that the _input_ hasn't changed. Can you show us a sample? ht -- Henry S. T

Re: Fonts: Cygwin/X, ssh -Y, TigerVNC -- who's in charge?

2020-06-26 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
Jon Turney writes: > On 18/06/2020 17:53, Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin wrote: >> [Warning, gnarly X-windows issues below, read at your own risk] >> >> I run XEmacs on several Linux servers, and sometimes (always for the >> time being) access them via (Cygwin) ssh

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

2020-06-23 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
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

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

2020-06-22 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
/postinstall/fontconfig_dtd.sh.done ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk

Fonts: Cygwin/X, ssh -Y, TigerVNC -- who's in charge?

2020-06-18 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
list them, they have names such as "-b")? Thanks, ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

2020-06-14 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
or with the builtin Windows task manager, via Control-Alt-Delete. If you find XWin processes, let us know. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail

Re: WSL symbolic links

2020-03-28 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
g of hacking that plus > maybe bits of file, cygpath, readshortcut, readlink, lsattr together > to display otherwise awkward to access attributes and properties. Oh, yes please! You could call it 'swan', for Swiss Army Knife :-). ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, Unive

Re: Perl problem w. pty: Can't install IO::Pty

2020-03-17 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
Marco Atzeri via Cygwin writes: > Am 17.03.2020 um 12:37 schrieb Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin: >> Trying to upgrade App::Ack, ran into various odd test failures, but >> that's a problem for another day, as notest install appears to work. >> >> But in the test output, t

Perl problem w. pty: Can't install IO::Pty

2020-03-17 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
Trying to upgrade App::Ack, ran into various odd test failures, but that's a problem for another day, as notest install appears to work. But in the test output, the fact that IO::Pty wasn't installed was mentioned, so I tried to install it. That failed at testing, as follows: Running make

Re: Cygwin/X XWinrc menu no longer launches after recent updates

2020-03-04 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Brian Inglis writes: > On 2020-03-03 15:02, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >> cygcheck output attached, just in case... >> >> Per previous message, had to interrupt id, which was hanging, which >> produced >> >> garbled output from "id" command -

Re: Cygwin/X XWinrc menu no longer launches after recent updates

2020-03-03 Thread Henry S. Thompson
sshd didn't do it, I did eventually have to kill all 4 of my services (cron, cygserver, exim, sshd). But, I only did one trial after stopping each one, starting with sshd, so this isn't definitive... ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton

Re: Cygwin/X XWinrc menu no longer launches after recent updates

2020-03-03 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Takashi Yano writes: > On Tue, 03 Mar 2020 12:40:17 + > "Henry S. Thompson" wrote: >> Takashi Yano writes: >> > This bug was already fixed in current git head. >> >> Current git head for Cygwin? Or mintty? > > I mean cygwin. OK, this is now

Re: Cygwin/X XWinrc menu no longer launches after recent updates

2020-03-03 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Takashi Yano writes: > On Tue, 03 Mar 2020 12:18:44 + > "Henry S. Thompson" wrote: >> Takashi Yano writes: >> >> > Does reverting cygwin1.dll to 3.1.2 help? >> >> In my case, yes it does. The resulting view from pstree is >> >&g

Re: Cygwin/X XWinrc menu no longer launches after recent updates

2020-03-03 Thread Henry S. Thompson
-Y Compare this to the 3.1.4 result: `-sh,2027 /usr/bin/startxwin `-xinit,2058 /home/ht/.startxwinrc -- /usr/bin/XWin :0 -multiwindow -auth ... |-XWin,2059 :0 -multiwindow -auth /home/ht/.serverauth.2027 `-sh,2065 ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informat

Re: Cygwin-X shortcut no longer works after recent updates

2020-03-02 Thread Henry S. Thompson
:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin /usr/local/bin/xemacs-21.5-b34.exe The common denominator is clearer run.exe -- does that give anyone a useful clue? ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440

Re: [ANN] Cygwin-OpenSSH 8.2.2.2

2020-02-27 Thread Henry S. Thompson
e. ht [1] https://cygwin.com/licensing.html -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www

Re: lftp 4.9.0-1 segmentation fault (core dumped)

2020-01-17 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Henry S. Thompson writes: > thierry blind writes: > >> I updated lftp 4.8.4-1 to lftp 4.9.0-1 but now calling following >> command will always core dump (I anonymized some confidential data): > > Likewise, with just lftp, no arguments at all! OK, installed src, built it

Re: lftp 4.9.0-1 segmentation fault (core dumped)

2020-01-13 Thread Henry S. Thompson
PKcS1_S1_b () #3 0x000180048df6 in do_global_ctors (force=0, in_pfunc=) at /usr/src/debug/cygwin-3.1.2-1/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc:77 #4 __main () at /usr/src/debug/cygwin-3.1.2-1/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc:1138 #5 0x0001004d251d in main () ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informati

Re: Problems seeing/mounting partitions from ssh

2019-07-19 Thread Henry S. Thompson
> I just tested, and yes, executing the subst commands within the ssh > session does work. Thanks, and yes, I've added them to my .ssh/rc and that has fixed my problem. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB,

Re: Problems seeing/mounting partitions from ssh

2019-07-18 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Achim Gratz writes: > Henry S. Thompson writes: >> But if I come in to this machine via ssh (public key or password), the >> virtual partitions are lost: > > That's how Windows is designed. If you have no desktop session, then > none of the associated setups are trigger

Problems seeing/mounting partitions from ssh

2019-07-18 Thread Henry S. Thompson
s aren't being run: > cmd /c subst [nothing] although they are Triggered by "At log on of [me]". Checking the Task Scheduler indeed shows them run at my original Windows login, but not when I ssh in... It appears that ssh login is not a Windows login -- what am I missing? ht --

Re: /proc/partitions changed ?

2019-01-20 Thread Henry S. Thompson
da4 C:\ 8 5887808 sda5 8 6 12800 sda6 F:\ 816 488386584 sdb 817 16367 sdb1 818 488369152 sdb2 H:\ ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 1

Re: bzip.org

2018-09-21 Thread Henry S. Thompson
. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_

Re: Attention PostgreSQL maintainer

2017-11-21 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Keith Christian writes: > I believe lines 57 through 124 of the latest > /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql.README are courtesy of the good Henry > S. Thompson. > > Lines 129 to the end of /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql.README are > those that I contributed to the cause. >

Re: Attention PostgreSQL maintainer

2017-10-29 Thread Henry S. Thompson
ATEROLE CREATEDB LOGIN NOREPLICATION; postgres=# \q * Create a database for yourself > psql -U [yourCygwinLogin] postgres postgres=# CREATE DATABASE xyzzy WITH TEMPLATE=template0 OWNER=[yourCygwinLogin] ENCODING=; postgres=# \q > psql -U [yourCygwinLogin] xyzzy [off yo

Re: Attention PostgreSQL maintainer

2017-10-29 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Keith Christian writes: > I've written a short updated quick start guide for PostgreSQL on Cygwin. Thanks for this, but it's for Windows 7, and will not (at least AFAICT) work on Windows 10. I'll try to provide a W10 narrative if I can recover it from my history... ht -- Henr

Re: setup release candidate - please test

2017-05-08 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Dave Caswell via cygwin writes: > Execution blocked by Windows 10 anti-virus. (Microsoft Security > Essentials.) Not in my case, all went smoothly, around 40 packages updated. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edi

Re: Cygwin install is broken v-a-vis dependencies

2017-04-04 Thread Henry S. Thompson
ibmediainfo and mediainfo to be sure) to Keep and proceed, you will be hit with a large list of dependencies. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131

Re: Installer request: Remember state of final checkboxes between runs

2017-01-13 Thread Henry S. Thompson
I have a shortcut named setup64 whose target is as follows: C:\Users\[me]\Downloads\setup-x86_64.exe -n which does the trick. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440

Re: Editors set x-bit (sometimes)

2016-12-13 Thread Henry S. Thompson
1 ht None 13 Dec 13 20:02 y2* Windows 10 Professional N Ver 10.0 Build 10586 3229k 2016/08/31 C:\C64\bin\cygwin1.dll Cygwin DLL version info: DLL version: 2.6.0 ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB,

Re: uniq not working

2016-10-11 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Andrey Repin writes: > Greetings, Henry S. Thompson! > >> You may find the following bash function useful: > >> sus () >> { >> sort "$@" | uniq -c | sort -k1nr,1 >> } > > Why not sort -u ? Because then all the counts will be 1.

Re: uniq not working

2016-10-11 Thread Henry S. Thompson
You may find the following bash function useful: sus () { sort "$@" | uniq -c | sort -k1nr,1 } With you data: > sus u.txt 2 1 2 2 2 3 1 4 1 5 1 6 1 7 1 8 ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] qpdfview 0.4.16-1]

2016-09-01 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Does this require X? No mention in the announcement, nor in the dependencies when I installed it. But if I try to launch I get QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display [1]+ Aborted (core dumped) qpdfview XXX.pdf ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics

Re: False negative from cygcheck python27.dll (Windows)

2016-09-01 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Corinna Vinschen writes: > On Sep 1 14:39, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >> This is not new, I don't think, but I thought I'd check if it's a known >> problem. >> >> Running Cygwin 2.5.2 on Windows 10 (which just forced the Anniversary >> update on me, various

False negative from cygcheck python27.dll (Windows)

2016-09-01 Thread Henry S. Thompson
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Re: Mintty 2.4.0 and Deja Vu Sans Mono 2.35: issue with bold

2016-07-20 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Thomas Wolff writes: > Fixed in https://github.com/mintty/mintty/archive/master.zip Confirmed. Thanks! ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131

Re: Mintty 2.4.0 and Deja Vu Sans Mono 2.35: issue with bold

2016-07-12 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Warren Young writes: > If you open the Fonts control panel, in the default Large Icons view, > do you see all four variants of Deja Vu Sans Mono stacked together? Yes. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh E

Re: Mintty 2.4.0 and Deja Vu Sans Mono 2.35: issue with bold

2016-07-12 Thread Henry S. Thompson
maller screen (13" diagonal, resolution 1920 x 1080) I have to go up to 16pt before bold and regular are indistinguishable... ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 F

Mintty 2.4.0 and Deja Vu Sans Mono 2.35: issue with bold

2016-07-11 Thread Henry S. Thompson
no effect. Can anyone reproduce / suggest a fix? ht [The only easily-available cross-check is with an old install with 2.1.5, which shows good contrast (and slightly _different_ depending on Show bold as font on or off). -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

Re: Repairing permissions after windows reinstall -- scripts to do it

2016-07-05 Thread Henry S. Thompson
1:U-LUTHER\me0,S-1-5-21-xxx-1001:/:/sbin/nologin me1:*:98766:197121:U-LUTHER\me1,S-1-5-21-yyy-1001:/:/sbin/nologin If the 'find' doesn't produce anything when you think it should, read the documentation about /etc/nsswitch.conf [2] and make sure it's either absent or getting /etc/passwd read. Hope t

Re: Repairing permissions after windows reinstall

2016-07-01 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Andrey Repin writes: > Greetings, Henry S. Thompson! > >> Good news: My cygwin file tree survived a Windows (10) reinstall >> Not-so-good news: I have a new SID, so not only do I not own those files >> any more (that's easily fixed), but I don't have the permissi

Re: rebaseall ate my homework (Windows 10 install, that is)?

2016-06-29 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Achim Gratz writes: > Henry S. Thompson inf.ed.ac.uk> writes: >> But I guess I now have to do one last reinstall of Windows, in order to >> repair all the dlls that I trashed by mistake. > > sfc/scannow should find and repair these. I have tried that in the past, with no

Re: rebaseall ate my homework (Windows 10 install, that is)?

2016-06-29 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Achim Gratz writes: > Henry S. Thompson inf.ed.ac.uk> writes: >> Not sure how to execute "[recovery] by doing a full rebase" -- I tried a >> vanilla rebaseall, but that doesn't seem to have flushed the database, >> although the date on it did change.

Re: rebaseall ate my homework (Windows 10 install, that is)?

2016-06-29 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Achim Gratz writes: > Henry S. Thompson inf.ed.ac.uk> writes: >> > You'll have to find out why rebase gets into your Windows system directory. >> > Check which files in /var/cache/rebase have these >> >> > [...] >> > /c/WINDOWS/system32/img

Re: rebaseall ate my homework (Windows 10 install, that is)?

2016-06-29 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Achim Gratz writes: > Henry S. Thompson inf.ed.ac.uk> writes: >> I [just sent] setup.log.full, which I don't _think_ shows anything going >> wrong... > > You'll have to find out why rebase gets into your Windows system directory. > Check which file

Re: rebaseall ate my homework (Windows 10 install, that is)?

2016-06-28 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Warren Young writes: > On Jun 28, 2016, at 3:48 PM, Henry S. Thompson <h...@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: >> >> I'm now pretty sure (it's happened 3 times since Thursday) that some >> aspect of postinstall (2.5.1 or 2.5.2) has broken my Windows 10 64bit >> in

Re: rebaseall ate my homework (Windows 10 install, that is)?

2016-06-28 Thread Henry S. Thompson
lcome, ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _a

Re: Repairing permissions after windows reinstall

2016-06-28 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Corinna Vinschen writes: > On Jun 28 11:04, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >> Good news: My cygwin file tree survived a Windows (10) reinstall >> Not-so-good news: I have a new SID, so not only do I not own those files >> any more (that's easily fixed), but I don't have the pe

Repairing permissions after windows reinstall

2016-06-28 Thread Henry S. Thompson
http://superuser.com/questions/439675/how-to-bind-old-users-sid-to-new-user-to-remain-ntfs-file-ownership-and-permiss which was the only thing I could find by searching, but I wondered if there was a Cygwin way. . .] -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

Re: Regression with gnu screen: Scrollbar gone between 4.02 and 4.03

2015-10-19 Thread Henry S. Thompson
g the scrollbar is still missing. Please test the new >> release yourself, and let me know what you find. > > Works for me, very brief test. Will explore further. As far as I can tell this is now very nearly identical to the version I compiled locally, and it does fix the scrol

Re: Regression with gnu screen: Scrollbar gone between 4.02 and 4.03

2015-10-18 Thread Henry S. Thompson
e new > release yourself, and let me know what you find. Works for me, very brief test. Will explore further. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (

Re: Regression with gnu screen: Scrollbar gone between 4.02 and 4.03

2015-10-09 Thread Henry S. Thompson
9 < RSDS0 --- > RSDS This is at least _suggestive_ that your compilation environment and mine are in some way different. Does #define TERMINFO 1 occur in your build/config.h ? ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Stree

Re: Regression with gnu screen: Scrollbar gone between 4.02 and 4.03

2015-10-06 Thread Henry S. Thompson
ery up-to-date version of screen there. . . No, I can't reproduce it. None of upstream 4.1.0, 4.2.0, 4.2.1, 4.3.0 or 4.3.1 have the problem on Linux. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440

Re: Regression with gnu screen: Scrollbar gone between 4.02 and 4.03

2015-10-05 Thread Henry S. Thompson
e on Linux -- I don't immediately have access to a very up-to-date version of screen there. . . ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-ma

Regression with gnu screen: Scrollbar gone between 4.02 and 4.03

2015-10-03 Thread Henry S. Thompson
regardless of which screenrc is used. mintty version 2.1.5, Cygwin1.dll 2.2.1, 64-bit ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk

Re: cannot build cygwin-2.0.2 because of net.cc (or because of some header.h)

2015-05-27 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Corinna Vinschen writes: ... Welcome back! Hope you had a good holiday. We staggered along without you, barely :-). ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax

Re: xemacs crashes with SIGSEGV after update

2015-04-09 Thread Henry S. Thompson
-v -r cygcheck.out and include that file as an attachment in your report. Please do not compress or otherwise encode the output. Just attach it as a straight text file so that it can be easily viewed. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10

Re: bash / readline problem with cd, directories with spaces, nospace

2015-03-19 Thread Henry S. Thompson
George Prekas writes: On 23/02/2015 17:14, Henry S. Thompson h...@inf.ed.ac.uk wrote: I _think_ this is a regression, but my memory for this sort of thing is terrible. ... I had the same trouble as you describe and I was using your workaround, but then I realized that find is broken

bash / readline problem with cd, directories with spaces, nospace

2015-02-23 Thread Henry S. Thompson
cygcheck.out.gz Description: Cygcheck output -- 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: bash / readline problem with cd, directories with spaces, nospace

2015-02-23 Thread Henry S. Thompson
-- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has

Re: problems with apache2 and postgres after Pc in sleep mode

2014-12-12 Thread Henry S. Thompson
at least twice a day on average, for weeks at a time, and the postgres server processes keep running just fine throughout, without any intervention from me at all. Do you have active pg _clients_ running at the time you sleep? I typically don't. . . ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-07 Thread Henry S. Thompson
from May, when I last tried a test release, the 32-bit one has no nsswitch.conf. Nothing to report. ssh, sshd and kinit all work on 64-bit, ssh and kinit on 32-bit. Thought this was just barely worth a mention. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

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