Re: can not mount Windows shares correctly

2013-11-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/18/2013 1:08 PM, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote: Hi all, Situation : A windows shared NAS to which I can connect using net use 192.168.109.252\\storage /user:PC06\\user1 passwd but then it is not possible to mount it to lets say /cygdrive/b mount 192.168.109.252\\storage

Re: ssh logon failure

2013-11-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/11/2013 7:23 PM, greenspan wrote: Furthermore, I've just discovered that I _can_ log in as the cyg_server user! This is not recommended for normal use. From there, if i attempt to su to myself (user greendg1), I see this: --- $ su - greendg1 su: warning: cannot change directory to

Re: Help with getting binaries to not print ^M

2013-11-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/8/2013 10:21 PM, Jason Gross wrote: I have some precompiled binaries (from, e.g., ocaml, gtk+). When I install them to a location like D:\OCaml\bin and run them, the output has a ^M at the end of every line. snip Where did you get these binaries? Please provide the output of 'cycheck

Re: Building a snapshot (Not an ELF file error)

2013-11-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/6/2013 9:35 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: We don't support building within the source dir. That's unclear to me. I just did ./configure then make at the top snapshot directory. AFAICT, the build result was stored under ./i868-pc-cygwin. See the FAQ:

Re: Windows Guest Account Locked SSH

2013-11-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/6/2013 5:26 AM, jez.no...@gmp.police.uk wrote: I have a similar problem to this post: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-06/msg00507.html except that the version I am using is 1.7.25, downloaded relatively recently. It seems that making an ssh connection to the CygWin host, using RSA

Re: vi stealing SYSTEM-owned permissions and ownership

2013-11-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/4/2013 9:50 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: Haha, yes. But if my students have to administer remote production-machines, most of the time they have no other option. I want them to succeed where others fail. Reading this thread, it looks like it digressed far away from

Re: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/4/2013 11:22 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: Hello All, I am trying to help my site's Systems team to straighten up CYGWIN installation process, which they will need to perform to build new PCs, and I have volunteered to ask on their behalf here.. As far as they can tell,

Re: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/4/2013 12:22 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: Though I haven't experimented with this myself, I'd recommend looking at using setup*.exe on the command line and listing the packages to install there. Thanks. But I P.S.'d about that option as undesirable -- as it requires

Re: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/4/2013 1:03 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: Just make a list from that as part of your install script. That is the problem, right there. I counted some 150 directories, many of which contain 10+ packages, easily. A manageable install command would have looked like

Re: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/4/2013 2:04 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: Are you saying this won't work? Or do you just not like it? A little bit of both, actually. Windows CMD.EXE has an 8K limit on the command line length, AFAICT. Even if that was not exceeded first time the package list was

Re: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/4/2013 2:11 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: Alternatively, you can grab the sources for setup and add an option to do what you want the way you want it. Well, that's a trivial option with open source, of course. But also it means to maintain a branch of our own

Re: Executing Windows commands from Cygwin with or without cmd: what are the pros and cons?

2013-11-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/4/2013 3:35 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: Hi; Where can I find information regarding the pros and cons of using or not using the cmd command to execute Windows commands from Cygwin? I think there would just be cons to using cmd.exe commands from within Cygwin. ;-) Obviously, this can

Re: Executing Windows commands from Cygwin with or without cmd: what are the pros and cons?

2013-11-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/4/2013 4:31 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 04:00:08PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 11/4/2013 3:35 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: Hi; Where can I find information regarding the pros and cons of using or not using the cmd command to execute Windows commands

Re: Problem with multiprocessing module from Python

2013-10-31 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/31/2013 2:27 PM, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: I just decompressed the cygwin tarball which only overwrote the dll in / usr/bin but not in /bin. Is there a canonical way to do that in a proper way? What did you use to do the decompress and extract? Windows tools don't understand Cygwin mount

Re: Problem with multiprocessing module from Python

2013-10-31 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/31/2013 4:47 PM, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: snip Commit http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/thread.cc? rev=1.286content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markupcvsroot=src would be exactly what I need. I'll just be waiting for 1.7.26. If you want to try this, you don't need to wait for

Re: fork() and NT error 0xC0000135 (STATUS_DLL_NOT_FOUND)

2013-10-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/29/2013 12:13 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: Hello All, I can't find a similar problem reported earlier, so please excuse the question if it looks familiar. We have a software package that installs like a miniature CYGWIN deployment (basically, only cygwin1.dll and just

Re: Rebuilding cygwin1.dll - error: TRANSACTION_ALL_ACCESS redefined [-Werror]

2013-10-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/27/2013 5:51 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 26 21:27, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 11:47:04AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 26 02:25, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:14:01AM +0400, Alexey Pavlov wrote:

Re: popen: Permission denied - error opening man page

2013-10-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/25/2013 5:19 PM, Balaji Venkataraman wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Perhaps not but it's worth checking your shells at least. Not sure I understand exactly what you mean. The thread you pointed to suggested that a shell had permissions problems

Re: Problem with multiprocessing module from Python

2013-10-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/25/2013 11:08 AM, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: I have another quite unrelated question while I'm here: I recently had trouble because in Sage two DLLs ended up with the same name and wanted to be loaded at the same time, resulting in a cannot reloacte blah.dll at the same address. Renaming one

Re: popen: Permission denied - error opening man page

2013-10-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/24/2013 6:34 PM, Balaji Venkataraman wrote: I completely wiped my Cygwin32 install and re-installed the bare minimum set of packages. But I still can't get something as basic as 'man ls' to run from a non-admin mintty bash shell. x86$ man ls popen: Permission denied Attempt

Re: ps weirdness...

2013-10-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/24/2013 6:03 AM, Anthony Geoghegan wrote: I was intrigued by Jeff's post so I tried a couple of experiments of my own and was able to duplicate the same behaviour - including the bash process being shown as a Windows process - on my Cygwin installation. The only difference was that I was

Re: CHERE package missing from 64-bit Setup 2.830

2013-10-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/23/2013 7:27 PM, Charles Butterfield wrote: Larry - Thanks for your suggestions regarding mixing 32 and 64-bit installations (CHERE, INETUTILS, PING, etc). I have a couple of follow-on questions: 1) Can I simply copy the 32-bit binaries into the 64-bit bin directory? You could but it's

Re: ssh logon failure

2013-10-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/24/2013 8:52 PM, Dan Greenspan wrote: I experienced the operation not permitted problem as many others have. I had not changed my setup when the error was experienced, but I noticed that every computer which presented this difficulty was a work machine with our IT security suite

Re: CHERE package missing from 64-bit Setup 2.830

2013-10-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/23/2013 3:19 PM, Charles Butterfield wrote: I'm in the middle of re-installing Cygwin. Decided to go with the 64-bit package this time. But I can't find the chere package, not any recent reference to it in this list. Are there any workarounds that give me a right click to open a bash

Re: INETUTILS and PING package missing from 64-bit Setup 2.830

2013-10-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/23/2013 3:20 PM, Charles Butterfield wrote: Also noticed that inetutils package is missing from 64-bit. Also noticed that ping package is missing from 64-bit. Gosh - I use both of these on occasion. I'm now feeling I may have made a mistake in upgrading to 64-bit. My questions: 1) Is

Re: Long wait until SSH drops you to cygwin prompt...

2013-10-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/23/2013 4:13 PM, Troy Cleland wrote: We are having issues with users that are connecting to our cygwin ssh server taking a long time to drop them to the prompt after login. Example I use putty from my windows environment and connect it prompts for username and pw and then shows the

Re: Copy/paste broken from X to Windows

2013-10-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin-X)
On 10/21/2013 12:45 AM, Matt D. wrote: Copy/paste seems to be broken when attempting to copy a large block of text from X to Windows. See the attachment for an example. Copying the text from Windows to X seems fine but the reverse causes the mouse cursor to spin and then a blank string to

Re: Copy/paste broken from X to Windows

2013-10-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin-X)
On 10/21/2013 6:40 PM, Matt D. wrote: Larry, This is the cygwin-xfree list? Right. My apologies. -- Larry _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting

Re: FW: Cygwin64 Terminal - Windows is searching for mintty

2013-10-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/21/2013 12:04 AM, Matthias Hettwer wrote: Windows 7 Pro 64-bit: After full installation of setup-x86_64 - done repeatedly to correct any errors and misses - there still is a fatal error when starting Cygwin64 Terminal, Windows is searching for minty with a Browse button option. However, it

Re: ver 1.7.25 cygwin64 post-install.sh Error on Win 7

2013-10-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/21/2013 1:03 PM, Jonathan wrote: On 21/10/2013 16:05, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 03:04:16PM +0100, Jonathan wrote: When I run: C:\Windows\system32C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile /etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh I get this back: 0

Re: Permalinks for versioned Cygwin setup.exe files

2013-10-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/14/2013 8:03 PM, Thomas Deinhamer wrote: Hi there, are there official permalinks for the setup.exe file to download a specific version of Cygwin? For example http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64-1.7.25.exe No. setup*.exe installs the current version if you Install from Intranet. -- Larry

Re: SSH Key Authentication is not working

2013-10-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/14/2013 6:11 PM, Tadej Animalix wrote: Hey, I'm turning here for help since I have a feeling that I searched the whole web and I didn't find a solution. I use CYGWIN on Windows 7 to allow connections via SSH, and it works OK if I use username and password for authentication, but it

Re: How can I get cygwin 1.5.24-2?

2013-10-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/11/2013 5:18 AM, Chen Shu Hua wrote: I used to use cygwin 1.5.24-2 to build a tool but anyway now I lose the environment. Could you please tell me how can I get the cygwin 1.5.24-2? If I get up the setup file, how could I setup the environment? Cygwin 1.5.24 is over five years old and

Re: ERRORLEVEL not returning to Cygwin shell

2013-10-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/11/2013 8:27 AM, paul.hermeneu...@gmail.com wrote: I am using CYGWIN_NT-5.1 PAC047922 1.7.25(0.270/5/3) 2013-08-31 20:39 i686 Cygwin An exit code returned by a DOS batch file does not seem to be coming back to the Cygwin shell. I am using bash. $ cat myexit.bat @echo off set EXITCODE=%1

Re: ERRORLEVEL not returning to Cygwin shell

2013-10-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/11/2013 11:53 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:42:47AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) On 10/11/2013 8:27 AM, paul hermeneutic wrote: I am using CYGWIN_NT-5.1 PAC047922 1.7.25(0.270/5/3

Re: cp creates unreadable file on Windows 7

2013-10-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/9/2013 5:30 PM, Frank, Matthew I wrote: I believe my problem is identical to the one reported in: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-02/msg00456.html, but that message chain ended with mount your file system noacl which isn't an option for me, so I'm looking for other alternatives. I

Re: ssh takes forever to interrupt-- known problem?

2013-10-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/9/2013 6:19 PM, Don Hatch wrote: ssh'ing from a cygwin shell to a linux computer, if I run an output-bound command (e.g. yes )and I try to kill the command using ctrl-c, it takes a long time, sometimes several minutes. I'd love

Re: ssh takes forever to interrupt-- known problem?

2013-10-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/9/2013 7:21 PM, Don Hatch wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 06:58:52PM -0400, Don Hatch wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 06:38:10PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: WJFFM. Maybe looking at your cygcheck output will provide a clue? Hmm, wasn't expecting that it actually works fine

Re: ssh takes forever to interrupt-- known problem?

2013-10-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/9/2013 8:44 PM, Don Hatch wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 07:30:42PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: ... Some of your packages are reported as empty, which isn't right. See if you can make those complaints go away. Okay, I ran setup_x86.exe and uninstalled all packages that appeared

Re: baffling cygwin setup.exe behavior

2013-10-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/8/2013 2:52 PM, Don Hatch wrote: snip So, as far as I can see, the only way to get rcs 5.8.2-1 is to globally select Curr and *don't click on rcs at all*. So, to upgrade rcs and nothing else, I'd have to globally select Curr and manually change every package *except* rcs to Keep, leaving

Re: fixing BLODA-caused fork failures

2013-10-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/8/2013 3:25 PM, David Boyce wrote: But as a point of practicality, 64-bit Cygwin can help with some cases of DLL address space collisions. So if you haven't experimented with 64-bit Cygwin in your environment, it may be worth your time. This sounds very reasonable but I'm curious: is it

Re: fresh 64 bit install question

2013-10-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/6/2013 11:30 AM, Bill Morgan wrote: Just did a fresh 64 bit install and there are no directories under Home. Is this normal ? No. This is done in '/etc/profile'. Take a look at that script and see if you can figure out why it skipped creating your home directory. If you need more

Re: How to add a package to Cygwin from an external folder?

2013-10-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/6/2013 9:37 AM, Alessandro Francesconi wrote: I'm new on Cygwin environment and I'm wondering if it's possible to link a package that's already stored on my hard-drive, but it's out from the default Cygwin folder. I'll be more precise: My Cygwin environment is in C:\dev\cygwin, I need to

Re: second exec channel cannot access windows share (open-ssh)

2013-10-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/7/2013 4:04 AM, gaillard wrote: Thanks. Yes there are passwords on shares. What confuses me is that it works on the first invocation of exec channel. Is there any reason why it works then ? There are some corner cases where this might work for an individual user (i.e. the one that's

Re: transfering cygwin configuration from win XP to win 7

2013-10-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/7/2013 1:32 PM, J.-C. Mignot wrote: Hi ! I have a cygwin working fine on windows XP. I'm moving to windows 7. Is there a way to copy the configuration of the cygwin that works well to windows 7 without using the wysiwyg setup.exe ? I mean something like a single configuration file ? No,

Re: second exec channel cannot access windows share (open-ssh)

2013-10-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/4/2013 3:26 AM, gaillard wrote: Hi, My company uses cygwin to enable client users to access an application through open-ssh server via an ssh exec-channel. After the session connects fine, the firstly created exec channel is able to access the mounted shares installed on the box (in my

Re: Available Download Sites empty

2013-10-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/4/2013 4:39 PM, Sean McKell wrote: Hi, Running 'setup-x86_64.exe' in Win7, the 'Available Download Sites' list is empty. How do I get that to be filled in? I don't use a proxy. I've also tried putting in a mirror site from your website 'ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/', but it

Re: Xwin 1.14.2 (64 bit) extreme memory page faulting

2013-10-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin-X)
On 10/3/2013 12:46 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote: snip I just fired up a 64-bit Ubuntu VM I had laying around, installed firefox, and tunneled it to cygwin64/X on my win7-64 machine. X isn't even visible in the task manager when I sort descending by PF delta, CPU, or memory. This in spite of having

Re: fonts for X11 and TexLive

2013-10-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/3/2013 12:24 PM, wynfi...@gmail.com wrote: Is there some X11 or other utiltiy that can display a list of available fonts to 1.) X11 and if different fonta available and 2.) TexLive's Context macro processor? Why not ask this on the much more appropriate cygwin-xfree list? -- Larry

Re: fixing BLODA-caused fork failures

2013-10-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/3/2013 5:50 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 03/10/2013 4:55 PM, Adam Kellas wrote: My company uses Cygwin and we experience fairly frequent fork failures, believed to be BLODA-related. I say believed to be because in this corporate environment, like many, we cannot uninstall the virus scanner

Re: Tried to remove cygdrive prefix, ended up lost in my filesystem

2013-10-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/2/2013 7:45 PM, Diego Mesa wrote: Hello! I've tried the mount -c / command, as well as the changes in fstab with a restart and it still doesnt work! Am I missing something? You appear to be expecting that you can run the command above while you're sitting in a path under /cygdrive and

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: run-1.3.0-1

2013-09-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/30/2013 3:17 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: Any updates on this? Any other information we can provide to expedite a fix? I just had my PC upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7 and have been reinstalling various applications including Cygwin. I'm using the 32-bit version because not all the

Re: Run bash script in cmd with cygwin

2013-09-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/25/2013 5:25 PM, Ulrich Pogson wrote: Thanks for your help I got it to work with this line. I: cd I:\Work\GitHub\responsive\languages c:\cygwin64\bin\bash -c \cygdrive\i\Work\GitHub\responsive\languages\potomo.sh ^^ Cygwin prefers

Re: cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)

2013-09-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/25/2013 10:11 AM, Frédéric Bron wrote: snip In fact, what would be the issue to set the requested execution level to asInvoker for the official setup-x86_64.exe? People with admin rights will still be able to install for all users and people without admin rights will be able to install

Re: cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)

2013-09-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/25/2013 11:21 AM, Frédéric Bron wrote: In fact, what would be the issue to set the requested execution level to asInvoker for the official setup-x86_64.exe? People with admin rights will still be able to install for all users and people without admin rights will be able to install for

Re: cp vs copy performance over local network

2013-09-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/25/2013 1:17 PM, Wm. David Bentlage wrote: Greetings, I've often noticed that there's a big difference in the performance between Cygwin cp and Windows copy over the local network -- cp usually takes twice as long for the same operation. Here's an example: muser@A4826995 /c/Users/Muser $

Re: cp vs copy performance over local network

2013-09-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/25/2013 3:45 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: There's overhead to handle POSIX permissions, etc. For one file, the effects of copying the meta-data should be negligible. You're right. I didn't really look at the example (1 file) and the timing difference (~10 sec). I

Re: Cygwin and lz/lza running out of memory?

2013-09-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/23/2013 2:28 AM, Matt D. wrote: On 9/22/2013 10:25 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 9/22/2013 5:30 PM, Matt D. wrote: Depending on the options I choose, I keep running into lz/lzma reporting: ERROR: Can't allocate required memory!. This can occur before or during compression. The lz/lza

Re: What is the name of the pdftk package (setup-x86_64)

2013-09-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/23/2013 10:26 AM, Frédéric Bron wrote: I cannot find pdftk in setup on x86_64. Not yet available for 64 bits Oh, I see. Is it then recommended to install cygwin 32bits on a 64bits windows? Is cygwin 64 bits still considered 'experimental'? See any of the recent Cygwin package

Re: Confused about several issues with setting up cron

2013-09-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/21/2013 9:00 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: I'm surprised that there's nothing in the user guide or the FAQ about setting up cron. I had to settle for the various questions about this on StackOverflow and others. For Cygwin packages other than the one providing the Cygwin DLL itself,

Re: cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)

2013-09-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/22/2013 2:18 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong (like I need to ask!), but my impression is that the only thing for which setup for 'Cygwin for All Users' currently needs admin privileges is to create shortcuts in C:\Users\All Users\Desktop and C:\Users\All

Re: Cygwin and lz/lza running out of memory?

2013-09-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/22/2013 5:30 PM, Matt D. wrote: Depending on the options I choose, I keep running into lz/lzma reporting: ERROR: Can't allocate required memory!. This can occur before or during compression. The lz/lza process tends to stop after gaining about 400MB on the process; then it exits with this

Re: setup.exe and mounting home directory in fstab

2013-09-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/19/2013 12:16 PM, Rob Siklos wrote: Background: I wanted my /home directory to point to c:\Users rather than the out-of-the-box home directory created by cygwin. In order to accomplish this, I deleted the existing home folder and created a soft link mapping /home to /cygdrive/c/Users.

Re: Fwd: Way to test cyglsa?

2013-09-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/16/2013 4:50 PM, Evan Rowley wrote: Every day I learn something new. This cygcheck utility produces a lot of useful information. I've done a diff on the cygcheck for the server where sshd is working and the server where sshd is not working. Summary of the diff is as follows: - A gid

Re: seteuid 1019: Operation not permitted

2013-09-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/17/2013 3:02 PM, Evan Rowley wrote: Hi Guys I have the debug logs of an sshd that terminated connections when it recieves the following error: seteuid 1019: Operation not permitted snip Perhaps this thread helps? http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-08/msg00028.html Ignore the stuff

Re: Build Failure for APR library

2013-09-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/17/2013 12:06 AM, wynfield at gmail dot com wrote: Larry thank you. Your message helped me get Apache httpd up and running. Glad you were able to get it running. For other people after getting cygserver up and running, you will then have to set the CYGWIN environment variable so that

Re: Fwd: Way to test cyglsa?

2013-09-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/16/2013 11:03 AM, Evan Rowley wrote: Hi All, Is there a way to test whether or not cyglsa is functioning? According to the documentation for the LSA stuff (http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-nopasswd2), $USER will have the correct user name with LSA in the loop. I've

Re: Build Failure for APR library

2013-09-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/16/2013 3:01 AM, d.henman wrote: I tried running httpd2 by hand and it dies immediately and violently: $ httpd2 zsh: invalid system call (core dumped) httpd2 $ cat httpd2.exe.stackdump Stack trace: Frame Function Args When executed from the bash shell: $ /usr/sbin/httpd2 Bad

Re: Fwd: Way to test cyglsa?

2013-09-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/16/2013 1:47 PM, Evan Rowley wrote: Thanks for the recommendaitons Larry. If $USER is the test, then it appears cyglsa is working on this machine. The firewall is disabled. Thanks for refering me to the BLODA. I noticed some Symantec products listed there. Symantec's Endpoint Protection

Re: Fwd: Way to test cyglsa?

2013-09-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/16/2013 2:26 PM, Evan Rowley wrote: I would really like to run sshd in debug mode! I wasn't sure what the best way to enable debug mode on sshd. The approach I took was to edit one the registry entry I assumed cygrunsrv uses to launch sshd. Under

Re: Fwd: Way to test cyglsa?

2013-09-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/16/2013 3:06 PM, Evan Rowley wrote: Its great that I now have some actual debug output. Thanks a lot, Larry. Towards the end of the log this appeared: seteuid 1019: Operation not permitted I'll check again that /etc/passwd, /etc/group, cyglsa-config, and ssh-host-config all have the

Re: Fwd: Way to test cyglsa?

2013-09-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/16/2013 3:56 PM, Evan Rowley wrote: The user cyg_server was generated by the ssh-host-config script and while the server itself is on a domain, all the users involved with cygwin / ssh / sshd are local users. I've noticed that along with the local cyg_server account, there is also a local

Re: XWin.exe crashes on Windows restart

2013-09-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin-X)
On 9/10/2013 5:16 PM, Andreas Girgensohn wrote: On a different note, when running gdb, I noticed that XWin.exe twice receives a SIGSYS when starting. That does not affect normal operations. Right. This is fine. If you find this annoying or want to use the facilities provided by Cygserver

Re: Cygwin installation - Download Incomplete on perl package

2013-09-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/10/2013 3:32 PM, B Baldwin wrote: Attempting to install Cygwin. Keep getting Download Incomplete errors, eventually got all except Perl (perl-5.14.2-3.tar.bz2), which continues to return this error. This has been occurring for the last ~5 hours, on every mirror listed. There are about 10

Re: gcc writing to /dev/null actually writes to /dev/null.exe

2013-09-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/9/2013 12:24 PM, Adam Kellas wrote: Is this a bug which is fixable in Cygwin or just something to be lived with? % gcc -o /dev/null devnull.c % ls -ld /dev/null* crw-rw-rw- 1 dboyce Domain Users 1, 3 Sep 9 09:14 /dev/null -rwxrwxr-x+ 1 dboyce Domain Users 53827 Sep 9 09:14

Re: ZSH Address Space Needed By problem

2013-09-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/3/2013 1:43 PM, Chris wrote: Hey folks, I fired up Cygwin this morning to find that my ZSH is having a problem starting. I'm getting the following error message anytime I try to start it: Judging by the fact that your Cygwin package is 8 versions out-of-date, I'm going to hazard a guess

Re: Mirror sites/archives - download incomplete problem

2013-09-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/3/2013 5:23 PM, Mark Sheffield wrote: snip Is there some likelihood that some of the mirrors have corrupted packages? Sure, it's possible. Just like it's possible for files to get corrupted during your download. Is there a method to determine whether or not any specific download

Re: Trying to build rxvt on Cygwin64.

2013-09-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/2/2013 10:08 AM, Robert McBroom wrote: On 9/2/2013 9:00 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, mcforum! The source tar balls I can find of rxvt are quite old and the config.guess in the package doesn't recognize a win 7 x64, Cygwin64 system. Any pointers to getting a x64 rxvt to build? If

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.25

2013-09-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/2/2013 11:34 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: I just released Cygwin 1.7.25. Perhaps I am misunderstanding something.. but is 1.7.25 for x86_64 only or also for x86 systems? The mirrors have the 1.7.25 64 bit but not the 32 bit. In this case, it is still 1.7.24 the

Re: Trying to solve my cygheap base mismatch issue

2013-08-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/28/2013 9:29 AM, Tony Whyte wrote: Hi All I have resorted to attempting a fresh install of a base Cygwin because I suddenly started getting cygheap errors (after year of use) when I launched the cygwin terminal window. Im pretty sure it was related to a non-Cygwin dll, PGHook.dll, that had

Re: Install problem with latest cygwin

2013-08-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/26/2013 5:05 AM, Allan Chandler wrote: I've been running CygWin on my Win7-64 laptop for some time and I recently decided to update to the latest packages, mainly because there's a bucket load more stuff in there. I renamed my cygwin directory to get it out of the way and downloaded/ran

Re: Why are the 32- and 64-bit cygwin1.dlls incompatible?

2013-08-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/26/2013 9:51 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:04:06AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 25 13:26, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:05:06AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: I was having a

Re: Install problem with latest cygwin

2013-08-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/26/2013 12:46 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/26/2013 11:52 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/26/2013 5:05 AM, Allan Chandler wrote: I've been running CygWin on my Win7-64 laptop for some time and I recently decided to update to the latest packages, mainly because there's a bucket load more

Re: Why are the 32- and 64-bit cygwin1.dlls incompatible?

2013-08-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/23/2013 12:33 PM, Warren Young wrote: snip I just hope this won't lead to more confusion if 32 bit processes started from 64 bit (or vice versa) don't act as expected in some circumstances. Oh, it probably will, but a cygcheck dump will tell us when this is probably happening, because

Re: setting up sshd on windows 7

2013-08-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/23/2013 11:42 AM, Anatoly Yakovenko wrote: So i ran sshd by hand, which gave me an obnoxious error about /var/empty not being owned by root. turns out it just needs to be owned by the user running sshd. after i was able to run it by hand with -d, i saw an error that /bin/bash is not

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin package search down for a while

2013-08-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/23/2013 3:22 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 01:27:13PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'm working on bringing Cygwin's package search into the multi-arch world so it will be down for a while while I tweak things. It should be back up by Saturday so please don't

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin package search down for a while

2013-08-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/23/2013 4:13 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 04:07:57PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/23/2013 3:22 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 01:27:13PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'm working on bringing Cygwin's package search

Re: ghostscript running very slow from cygwin

2013-08-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/22/2013 3:48 AM, Laurence Jennings wrote: I'm using cygwin 64 on a machine running windows 7. I need this to run some unix optimized scripts which create .ps files and convert them to .pdf using ps2pdf. When I'm running ps2pdf from the windows command line it takes approximately three

Re: cygwin installed packages list without dependencies

2013-08-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/20/2013 8:26 PM, DynV wrote: Hello people of cygwin, Now for my main concern. I'd like to migrate from cygwin to cigwin64 but I have many packages on cygwin, the 32-bit version, that I'd need to install as well on the destination version (64-bit) before the move is made. I'm not sure which

Re: cygwin sshd dumping stack trace when not allocating pseudo-tty

2013-08-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/21/2013 6:42 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: On Tue, 20 Aug 2013, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/20/2013 4:32 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: On Mon, 19 Aug 2013, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: and to understand the method you're using to login. SSH public-key auth, that is, RSA keys

Re: g++-3 and g77-3 packages under setup-x86.exe

2013-08-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/20/2013 2:03 AM, LMH wrote: snip Dmitrii, thank you for the thoughtful response. I really am looking for information here. snip If you're looking for the reason that gcc-3 was removed from your computer during your recent upgrade, I believe that question has been answered by Chris. If

Re: cygwin sshd dumping stack trace when not allocating pseudo-tty

2013-08-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/20/2013 4:32 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: On Mon, 19 Aug 2013, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: and to understand the method you're using to login. SSH public-key auth, that is, RSA keys. (This is a requirement because the process will run as batch job so we cannot use any interactive auth

Re: cygwin sshd dumping stack trace when not allocating pseudo-tty

2013-08-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/19/2013 7:58 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: snip We have a problem with a Cygwin SSHD installation: normal logins work fine and use domain logins: snip Connections that do not use a pseudo-tty do not work: We need your cygcheck output and to understand the method you're using to login.

Re: Trying to solve my cygheap base mismatch issue

2013-08-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/19/2013 8:18 AM, Tony Whyte wrote: Hi All, One morning last week, after 11 months of flawless cygwin-ing, I was suddenly unable to create a cygwin terminal on my Windows XP (SP3) installation. The window would launch and then quickly close. Ive dug through the mail Archives and attempted

Re: g++-3 and g77-3 packages under setup-x86.exe

2013-08-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/19/2013 1:27 PM, LMH wrote: I recently tried to update my cygwin install and discovered I had to change to the setup-x86.exe package for the update to work. After finishing the update, I see that some binaries have been removed from my install. Which g++-3 and which g77-3 now return no

Re: g++-3 and g77-3 packages under setup-x86.exe

2013-08-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/19/2013 3:13 PM, LMH wrote: I would be happy to build gcc-3 myself, I'm just looking for some documentation to get that done. I don't have a direct pointer for you but I'm sure you can find something while looking around the net. gcc.gnu.org might be the best place to get some basic info

Re: Adding a new package to cygwin

2013-08-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/16/2013 7:17 PM, Tal wrote: Hi guys, I would like to add some statistics tools to cygwin like top, free, sar, etc. I tried to add procps package by downloading it and using the setup program. But obviously I do not do it well because I cannot find it inside the packages list in the

Re: Octave 3.6.4 cannot plot in X server

2013-08-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/15/2013 8:38 PM, Yuxiang Wang wrote: Dear all, I have installed Octave with Cygwin 64-bit, under Win 7. Besides octave-3.6.4-1, I also installed xinit and xlaunch according to the doc, and gnuplot just in case. However, when I start X terminal, open octave (that all went successfully) and

Re: Directory under x86/release: Ruby or ruby?

2013-08-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/13/2013 10:22 AM, fer...@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote: My local Cygwin installation repository has had up to now a subdirectory under release/ called Ruby (upper case first letter rare but not unprecedented) to match the typography in setup.ini. In the latest setup.ini incorporating a ruby

Re: 64-bit Cygwin installation is missing /usr/bin/lockfile

2013-08-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/13/2013 5:01 PM, Steve Rowley wrote: I just installed 64-bit Cygwin on Win7, and noticed that /usr/bin/lockfile is missing in my installation. Does anyone else have this problem, or is it a problem with my installation? If the latter, what package should I reinstall in an attempt to get

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