Re: Problem launching XTerm on new Cygwin installation

2014-03-16 Thread Mark Hansen
On 3/7/2014 11:57 AM, Mark Hansen wrote: I just installed the 64-bit version of Cygwin on both a desktop PC and a laptop PC. On the desktop, everything worked as expected without problems. On the laptop, I have the following problems: When I launch a shell window, I get the following

Re: Problem launching XTerm on new Cygwin installation

2014-03-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 11:57:20AM -0800, Mark Hansen wrote: I just installed the 64-bit version of Cygwin on both a desktop PC and a laptop PC. On the desktop, everything worked as expected without problems. On the laptop, I have the following problems: When I launch a shell window, I

Re: Problem launching XTerm on new Cygwin installation

2014-03-07 Thread Mark Hansen
On 3/7/2014 11:57 AM, Mark Hansen wrote: I just installed the 64-bit version of Cygwin on both a desktop PC and a laptop PC. On the desktop, everything worked as expected without problems. On the laptop, I have the following problems: When I launch a shell window, I get the following error:

Re: Problem launching XTerm on new Cygwin installation

2014-03-07 Thread Mark Hansen
On 3/7/2014 1:49 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 11:57:20AM -0800, Mark Hansen wrote: I just installed the 64-bit version of Cygwin on both a desktop PC and a laptop PC. On the desktop, everything worked as expected without problems. On the laptop, I have the following

Re: Problem launching XTerm on new Cygwin installation

2014-03-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 02:03:57PM -0800, Mark Hansen wrote: As a result, it is working so I'll leave it alone. :-) fwiw, when I compile #301, #302 and #303 for Cygwin, I don't see the bug. However, I was able to analyze it on Linux with valgrind... Well, I downloaded the Cygwin

Re: Problem launching XTerm on new Cygwin installation

2014-03-07 Thread Mark Hansen
On 3/7/2014 2:12 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 02:03:57PM -0800, Mark Hansen wrote: As a result, it is working so I'll leave it alone. :-) fwiw, when I compile #301, #302 and #303 for Cygwin, I don't see the bug. However, I was able to analyze it on Linux with valgrind...

Re: Problem launching XTerm on new Cygwin installation

2014-03-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 03:37:36PM -0800, Mark Hansen wrote: Okay, this is very strange. As I said before, I have had no problems launching XTerms on my desktop running 64-bit Cygwin. I've launched several XTerms today with no problems ... until a few minutes ago. I went to launch an

Re: Problem launching XTerm on new Cygwin installation

2014-03-07 Thread Mark Hansen
On 3/7/2014 4:36 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 03:37:36PM -0800, Mark Hansen wrote: Okay, this is very strange. As I said before, I have had no problems launching XTerms on my desktop running 64-bit Cygwin. I've launched several XTerms today with no problems ... until

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-22 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Thomas Baker wrote: The /bin/pdksh script sequence that is causing problems is: [snip] The obvious question is: do you still get the error if you replace pdksh with bash, or is the problem pdksh-specific? When you reduce this to a minimal testcase, are there bits of that

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-22 Thread Thomas Baker
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 12:56:33PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote: The /bin/pdksh script sequence that is causing problems is: [snip] The obvious question is: do you still get the error if you replace pdksh with bash, or is the problem pdksh-specific? When you reduce this to a minimal

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-15 Thread Thomas Baker
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 06:03:42PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Lewis Hyatt wrote: These machines have an anti-virus program, but the same one I have been using for the past two or three years. The filenames either have no extension, or .txt. That's most likely the problem anyway,

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-14 Thread Thomas Baker
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 10:07:09AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I would be grateful if someone could suggest a way to test this. Would it make sense (and is it possible) to replace the Cygwin kernel or the coreutils package (because of mv) with earlier versions and see if the script

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 14 08:22, Thomas Baker wrote: I would be grateful if someone could suggest a way to test this. Would it make sense (and is it possible) to replace the Cygwin kernel or the coreutils package (because of mv) with earlier versions and see if the script works then? You should first create

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-14 Thread Lewis Hyatt
These machines have an anti-virus program, but the same one I have been using for the past two or three years. The filenames either have no extension, or .txt. That's most likely the problem anyway, what happens if you turn it off? -Lewis -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Lewis Hyatt wrote: These machines have an anti-virus program, but the same one I have been using for the past two or three years. The filenames either have no extension, or .txt. That's most likely the problem anyway, what happens if you turn it off? This is possible, particularly if the

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-13 Thread Robert Pendell
Morgan Gangwere wrote: /!\ WOOGA WOOGA /!\ Possible Stupid human Error! /!\ OOOPS OOOPS /!\ if the copy of xp is new enough, its got a funky little tool called the Windows Malware Detection And removal Tool (a freind of mine who is an MS MVP has had the same problem as you just under a

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-13 Thread Thomas Baker
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 04:03:14AM -0600, René Berber wrote: [snip] However, the other problem (see below) has occurred -- sporadically -- on three different machines, all running German or English-language versions of XP, two with SATA disks and one with an ATA disk, all with freshly

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-13 Thread Thomas Baker
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 09:38:03PM -0500, Morgan Gangwere wrote: if the copy of xp is new enough, its got a funky little tool called the Windows Malware Detection And removal Tool (a freind of mine who is an MS MVP has had the same problem as you just under a different circumstance.) I'll

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-13 Thread Thomas Baker
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 09:58:31AM -0500, Robert Pendell wrote: One other thing I wanted to add to this was make sure the drives are not overheating. Some drives will actually shut down or begin to act erratically if they get too hot. I discovered this when doing work with my external

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-13 Thread Thomas Baker
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 06:06:21PM +0100, Thomas Baker wrote: if the copy of xp is new enough, its got a funky little tool called the Windows Malware Detection And removal Tool (a freind of mine who is an MS MVP has had the same problem as you just under a different circumstance.) I

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-13 Thread Thomas Baker
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 05:59:01PM +0100, Thomas Baker wrote: The speed is not the problem, it could be the usual suspect: an anti-virus, unlikely because the data written is not executable but it could be adding an extraneous delay between data written and data read. I'll ask the guy who

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-12 Thread Thomas Baker
René Berber wrote: [snip] I have searched FAQs and mailing lists for problems with timeout and the like but find nothing obviously relevant. [snip] I have seen that problem and it has nothing to do with Cygwin. The problem is with SATA drives and Window's asynchronous unbuffered disk

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-12 Thread René Berber
Thomas Baker wrote: [snip] However, the other problem (see below) has occurred -- sporadically -- on three different machines, all running German or English-language versions of XP, two with SATA disks and one with an ATA disk, all with freshly downloaded installations of cygwin.[snip] OK,

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-12 Thread Morgan Gangwere
/!\ WOOGA WOOGA /!\ Possible Stupid human Error! /!\ OOOPS OOOPS /!\ if the copy of xp is new enough, its got a funky little tool called the Windows Malware Detection And removal Tool (a freind of mine who is an MS MVP has had the same problem as you just under a different circumstance.) I took

Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-11 Thread Thomas Baker
) and one two years old (with a German-language-XP and an ATA hard disk). One of the machines with the new Cygwin installation also lost lots of data when I scheduled it to move a large subdirectory (using mv) in the middle of the night. The message I found on my return was: Windows - Device TimeOut

Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-11 Thread Thomas Baker
) and one two years old (with a German-language-XP and an ATA hard disk). One of the machines with the new Cygwin installation also lost lots of data when I scheduled it to move a large subdirectory (using mv) in the middle of the night. The message I found on my return was: Windows - Device TimeOut

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-11 Thread René Berber
Thomas Baker wrote: [snip] I have searched FAQs and mailing lists for problems with timeout and the like but find nothing obviously relevant. [snip] I have seen that problem and it has nothing to do with Cygwin. The problem is with SATA drives and Window's asynchronous unbuffered disk I/O,

New Cygwin installation

2004-03-17 Thread Frank Wagner
Hello, I updated my old cygwin installation with a newer one this week, I use cygwin in combination with a grafical development environment called Dev-Cpp. In the old installation it was sufficient to set up the c-include paht with c:\cygwin\usr\include and the c++-includes with

RE: New Cygwin installation

2004-03-17 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Frank Wagner Sent: 17 March 2004 09:03 Hello, Hello. I updated my old cygwin installation with a newer one this week, I use cygwin in combination with a grafical development environment called Dev-Cpp. Never heard of it.

RE: New Cygwin installation

2004-03-17 Thread Frank Wagner
Hi Dave, first thanks for your fast reply. I replaced the #include ostrstram with #includesstream but the type ostrstream type is still unknown. By commenting out the following lines // ostrstream stmPort; //stmPort /dev/com devnum : ends; // stmPort /dev/com devnum ends; //