RE: W7 and rebase [was YA call for snapshot testing]

2012-02-04 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Larry Hall (Cygwin) sent the following at Wednesday, February 01, 2012 11:49 PM If you're not seeing a problem now, you don't need to run rebaseall. If you choose to run it anyway, so be it. Given the almost constant state of flux of DLLs on Windows machines, running it isn't any kind of perpetual

RE: W7 and rebase [was YA call for snapshot testing]

2012-02-01 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
marco atzeri sent the following at Monday, January 30, 2012 3:20 PM On 1/26/2012 1:07 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: marco atzeri sent the following at Friday, January 20, 2012 3:49 AM my 2c$ : As rebaseall is almost mandatory on W7/64 and we are always suggesting it to anyone

Re: W7 and rebase [was YA call for snapshot testing]

2012-02-01 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 2/1/2012 9:43 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: marco atzeri sent the following at Monday, January 30, 2012 3:20 PM On 1/26/2012 1:07 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: marco atzeri sent the following at Friday, January 20, 2012 3:49 AM my 2c$ : As rebaseall is almost

Re: W7 and rebase [was YA call for snapshot testing]

2012-01-30 Thread marco atzeri
On 1/26/2012 1:07 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: marco atzeri sent the following at Friday, January 20, 2012 3:49 AM my 2c$ : As rebaseall is almost mandatory on W7/64 and we are always suggesting it to anyone with fork problem, My box was upgraded from XP Pro to W7 a couple of

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 25 01:28, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:03:05PM -0800, Kevin Layer wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: This problem is killing me. I'm currently looking msysgit + GnuWin32 because I just can't take the crashes of bash.exe and git.exe anymore. In my

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-25 Thread Kevin Layer
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:03:05PM -0800, Kevin Layer wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: This problem is killing me. I'm currently looking msysgit + GnuWin32 because I just can't take the crashes of bash.exe and git.exe anymore. In my testing, so far, I've

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-25 Thread Kevin Layer
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:03:05PM -0800, Kevin Layer wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: This problem is killing me. I'm currently looking msysgit + GnuWin32 because I just can't take the crashes of bash.exe and git.exe anymore. In my testing, so far, I've

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-25 Thread Kevin Layer
I now have several hours of intense use, and I haven't seen one crash. Kudos to all that have contributed to this fix. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-25 Thread Robert Miles
On 1/25/2012 1:58 PM, Kevin Layer wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:03:05PM -0800, Kevin Layer wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: This problem is killing me. I'm currently looking msysgit + GnuWin32 because I just can't take the crashes of bash.exe and git.exe

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-25 Thread Kevin Layer
Robert Miles wrote: NOTE: I run with CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning proc_retry:1 because I run a lot of non-cygwin software from shell scripts, and during testing, that can take 10's of minutes, I can't afford to have those programs restarted if they crash on exit. Before setting proc_retry:1,

Re: /rebase.sh (was Re: YA call for snapshot testing)

2012-01-24 Thread Andrew Schulman
How should the batch file determine the Cygwin installation location? Just assuming C:\cygwin will not work for everyone. The batch file could be generated in a postinstall script via sed or gawk. What's the supported way in a postinstall script to find the Cygwin installation directory?

Re: /rebase.sh (was Re: YA call for snapshot testing)

2012-01-24 Thread Peter Rosin
Andrew Schulman skrev 2012-01-24 13:04: How should the batch file determine the Cygwin installation location? Just assuming C:\cygwin will not work for everyone. The batch file could be generated in a postinstall script via sed or gawk. What's the supported way in a postinstall script to

Re: /rebase.sh (was Re: YA call for snapshot testing)

2012-01-24 Thread Andrew Schulman
What's the supported way in a postinstall script to find the Cygwin installation directory? I thought of 'cat /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Cygwin/something-or-other', but it seems that there can be multiple installation locations stored there. Will cygpath -m / do? Uh...

Re: /rebase.sh (was Re: YA call for snapshot testing)

2012-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 07:12:35AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: What's the supported way in a postinstall script to find the Cygwin installation directory? I thought of 'cat /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Cygwin/something-or-other', but it seems that there can be multiple

Re: /rebase.sh (was Re: YA call for snapshot testing)

2012-01-24 Thread Peter Rosin
Christopher Faylor skrev 2012-01-24 17:01: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 07:12:35AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: What's the supported way in a postinstall script to find the Cygwin installation directory? I thought of 'cat /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Cygwin/something-or-other', but

Re: /rebase.sh (was Re: YA call for snapshot testing)

2012-01-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 24 11:01, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 07:12:35AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: What's the supported way in a postinstall script to find the Cygwin installation directory? I thought of 'cat /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Cygwin/something-or-other',

Re: /rebase.sh (was Re: YA call for snapshot testing)

2012-01-24 Thread Jason Tishler
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 07:12:35AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: What's the supported way in a postinstall script to find the Cygwin installation directory? I thought of 'cat /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Cygwin/something-or-other', but it seems that there can be multiple

Re: /rebase.sh (was Re: YA call for snapshot testing)

2012-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 05:19:43PM +0100, Peter Rosin wrote: Christopher Faylor skrev 2012-01-24 17:01: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 07:12:35AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: What's the supported way in a postinstall script to find the Cygwin installation directory? I thought of 'cat

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-24 Thread Kevin Layer
I wish I could report success like you. Using 20120123, just printing my prompt, which runs git rev-parse and git branch, I saw this (pd is an alias for pushd): thor$ pd /home/scm/acl90b.64 /home/scm/acl90b.64/src/cl/src 7 [main] bash 1732 c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/24/2012 6:00 PM, Kevin Layer wrote: I wish I could report success like you. Using 20120123, just printing my prompt, which runs git rev-parse and git branch, I saw this (pd is an alias for pushd): thor$ pd /home/scm/acl90b.64 /home/scm/acl90b.64/src/cl/src 7 [main] bash 1732

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-24 Thread Kevin Layer
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: This problem is killing me. I'm currently looking msysgit + GnuWin32 because I just can't take the crashes of bash.exe and git.exe anymore. In my testing, so far, I've never seen msysgit or the bash that comes with it crash. Why is it that cygwin has this

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:03:05PM -0800, Kevin Layer wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: This problem is killing me. I'm currently looking msysgit + GnuWin32 because I just can't take the crashes of bash.exe and git.exe anymore. In my testing, so far, I've never seen msysgit or the bash

Re: /rebase.sh (was Re: YA call for snapshot testing)

2012-01-23 Thread Jason Tishler
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 02:23:15PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: [Moved to cygwin-apps for discussion] On Jan 20 09:49, marco atzeri wrote: As rebaseall is almost mandatory on W7/64 and we are always suggesting it to anyone with fork problem, I think a simple batch file in the / (called

Re: /rebase.sh (was Re: YA call for snapshot testing)

2012-01-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 23 10:51, Jason Tishler wrote: On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 02:23:15PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: [Moved to cygwin-apps for discussion] On Jan 20 09:49, marco atzeri wrote: As rebaseall is almost mandatory on W7/64 and we are always suggesting it to anyone with fork problem,

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-22 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 22/01/12 16:53, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:47:19AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 01:07:45PM +1100, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, On 22/01/12 05:18, Christopher Faylor wrote: Thanks for the positive feedback. It looks like if we can fix

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-22 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 22/01/12 21:33, Shaddy Baddah wrote: You are right about the stack trace, as it is from the first known bad snapshot, 2011-12-17. And it was wrong of me to use that snapshot, as the Bad address errors don't occur with the latest snapshot, 2012-01-11. It seems I spoke too soon. The

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 08:30:23AM +0100, marco atzeri wrote: On 1/22/2012 6:53 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:47:19AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 01:07:45PM +1100, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, On 22/01/12 05:18, Christopher Faylor wrote:

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-22 Thread marco atzeri
On 1/22/2012 5:57 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 08:30:23AM +0100, marco atzeri wrote: Cgf I saw the problem in erratic way also before running updatedb. But it is very evanescent and usually linked on how find is called. Could you try the latest snapshot? cgf le

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 08:11:18PM +0100, marco atzeri wrote: On 1/22/2012 5:57 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 08:30:23AM +0100, marco atzeri wrote: I saw the problem in erratic way also before running updatedb. But it is very evanescent and usually linked on how find is

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-22 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 23/01/12 06:33, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 08:11:18PM +0100, marco atzeri wrote: On 1/22/2012 5:57 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 08:30:23AM +0100, marco atzeri wrote: I saw the problem in erratic way also before running updatedb. But it

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-21 Thread Hans Horn
On 1/19/2012 2:06 PM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: On 19 January 2012 14:52, Christopher Faylor wrote: Corinna and I think that we're coming close to achieving stability for a new release so we'd like you to try the most recent snapshot at: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Please reports variations

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 08:45:58AM -0800, Hans Horn wrote: On 1/19/2012 2:06 PM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: On 19 January 2012 14:52, Christopher Faylor wrote: Corinna and I think that we're coming close to achieving stability for a new release so we'd like you to try the most recent snapshot at:

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-21 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 22/01/12 05:18, Christopher Faylor wrote: Thanks for the positive feedback. It looks like if we can fix Yaakov's problem we may be ready to ship. I have one more problem to report. I tracked this problem as being introduced in the 2011-12-17 00:14:25 UTC snapshot, including the

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 01:07:45PM +1100, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, On 22/01/12 05:18, Christopher Faylor wrote: Thanks for the positive feedback. It looks like if we can fix Yaakov's problem we may be ready to ship. I have one more problem to report. I tracked this problem as being

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:47:19AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 01:07:45PM +1100, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, On 22/01/12 05:18, Christopher Faylor wrote: Thanks for the positive feedback. It looks like if we can fix Yaakov's problem we may be ready to ship. I have

/rebase.sh (was Re: YA call for snapshot testing)

2012-01-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
[Moved to cygwin-apps for discussion] On Jan 20 09:49, marco atzeri wrote: As rebaseall is almost mandatory on W7/64 and we are always suggesting it to anyone with fork problem, I think a simple batch file in the / (called rebase.bat ?) similar to the cygwin.bat with something like

Re: /rebase.sh (was Re: YA call for snapshot testing)

2012-01-20 Thread marco atzeri
On 1/20/2012 2:23 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: [Moved to cygwin-apps for discussion] On Jan 20 09:49, marco atzeri wrote: As rebaseall is almost mandatory on W7/64 and we are always suggesting it to anyone with fork problem, I think a simple batch file in the / (called rebase.bat ?) similar to

Re: /rebase.sh (was Re: YA call for snapshot testing)

2012-01-20 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
On 20 January 2012 08:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: [Moved to cygwin-apps for discussion] On Jan 20 09:49, marco atzeri wrote: As rebaseall is almost mandatory on W7/64 and we are always suggesting it to anyone with fork problem, I think a simple batch file in the / (called rebase.bat ?)

Re: /rebase.sh (was Re: YA call for snapshot testing)

2012-01-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 20 09:06, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: On 20 January 2012 08:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: [Moved to cygwin-apps for discussion] On Jan 20 09:49, marco atzeri wrote: As rebaseall is almost mandatory on W7/64 and we are always suggesting it to anyone with fork problem, I think a simple

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-20 Thread marco atzeri
On 1/19/2012 8:52 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Corinna and I think that we're coming close to achieving stability for a new release so we'd like you to try the most recent snapshot at: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Please reports variations from 1.7.9, including Hey! It's a lot faster than

Re: YA call for snapshot testing (find /proc/registry64 crash)

2012-01-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 19 21:42, A.R. Burgers wrote: Op 19-1-2012 20:52, Christopher Faylor schreef: Corinna and I think that we're coming close to achieving stability for a new release so we'd like you to try the most recent snapshot at: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Please reports variations from

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 20 01:42, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 14:52 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: Corinna and I think that we're coming close to achieving stability for a new release so we'd like you to try the most recent snapshot at: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Please

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 02:06:32PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 20 01:42, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 14:52 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: Corinna and I think that we're coming close to achieving stability for a new release so we'd like you to try the most recent

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-20 Thread Peter Rosin
Corinna Vinschen skrev 2012-01-20 14:06: On Jan 20 01:42, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 14:52 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: Corinna and I think that we're coming close to achieving stability for a new release so we'd like you to try the most recent snapshot at:

YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
Corinna and I think that we're coming close to achieving stability for a new release so we'd like you to try the most recent snapshot at: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Please reports variations from 1.7.9, including Hey! It's a lot faster than 1.7.9! as well as the usual bug reports. When

Re: YA call for snapshot testing (find /proc/registry64 crash)

2012-01-19 Thread A.R. Burgers
Op 19-1-2012 20:52, Christopher Faylor schreef: Corinna and I think that we're coming close to achieving stability for a new release so we'd like you to try the most recent snapshot at: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Please reports variations from 1.7.9, including Hey! It's a lot faster than

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-19 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
On 19 January 2012 14:52, Christopher Faylor wrote: Corinna and I think that we're coming close to achieving stability for a new release so we'd like you to try the most recent snapshot at: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Please reports variations from 1.7.9, including Hey! It's a lot faster

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-19 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 14:52 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: Corinna and I think that we're coming close to achieving stability for a new release so we'd like you to try the most recent snapshot at: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Please reports variations from 1.7.9, including Hey! It's a