gdb: interrupt program with ctrl-C works, but cannot continue

Hi I'm using Cygwin gdb 7.6.50.20130728-cvs (cygwin-special) to debug my program compiled with cygwin g++ 4.8.2. I'm trying to interrupt my program with ctrl-C to see where it is (info stack), and then to use continue to keep on going. Unfortunately, after this, my program exits (gdb doesn't). I

Re: runing ./configure on gdb 7.5.50 sources

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: I'm using gdb-7.6.50-2 on cygwin 1.7.22-1. All freshly updated today. Here's my cygport file from the 64 bit GDB package: CYGCONF_ARGS=--disable-gdbtk --with-system-readline Hi Corinna excellent! This worked for me (on 32bit

Re: runing ./configure on gdb 7.5.50 sources

Ryan Johnson writes: On 09/01/2013 1:57 AM, Jose Munoz wrote: I tried to build the original gdb sources, which I downloaded using setup.exe and selecting them. Without modifying any source code of gdb, I run ./configure from my source folder: C:\cygwin\usr\src\gdb-7.5.50-1

Re: runing ./configure on gdb 7.5.50 sources

Kris Thielemans writes: I'm using gdb-7.6.50-2 on cygwin 1.7.22-1. All freshly updated today. Further investigation shows that - this file exists in cygwin as /usr/include/tcl8.5/generic/tclInt.h - /usr/lib/tclConfig.sh sets TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC='-I/usr/include' - there is no /usr/include/tcl

bash 2112 exception::handle: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

Hi I'm running (up-to-date) Cygwin 1.7.9-1 on Windows7 sp1 64-bit. I recently am getting lots of errors like this bash 2112 exception::handle: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION The messages do not happen all the time (for example, from bash (in minty) I do a few times ls. After about 4, I get

Re: XEmacs warning

David Morgan writes: Hi All, I have been getting the following Xemacs error with all 1.7 Cygwin releases that I have tried: WARNING: Couldn't find an obvious default for the root of the XEmacs hierarchy. I saw a similar issue came up in 2006, and Dr. Volker Zell fixed it

Package dependency issues for octave-devel

Hi I have octave-3.0.3-1 and octave-devel installed, but had problems using mkoctfile. I had to download gcc4-fortran (for -lgfortranbegin), libhdf_0 (for -lhdf5) and readline (for -lreadline). After that, it seems to work nicely. Thanks Kris -- Unsubscribe info:

Problem with xterm menu displaying too small

Hi On one of the PCs that I use, I have a problem that the menu that xterm displays if you control-click (left,middle or right), e.g. to change the font-size, is too small. It shows only 2 lines, and not all characters. Anyone knows how to fix this? Thanks Kris PS: I'm pretty up-to-date with

Rsync over SSH and ssh into machine not working with ZoneAlarm Security Suite

in http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.talk/1580). I then had to 'trust' ssh, sshd, rsync again, but all to no avail. My cygwin is up-to-date. I'm running XP home sp2. Output of cygcheck is attached. Any suggestions? Many thanks! Kris Thielemans cygcheck.out Description: Binary data

Re: remote Mathematica client does not work properly in Cygwin/X(pointer bug?): solved

. Kris Thielemans Hammersmith Imanet, part of GE Healthcare London W12 ONN, United Kingdom -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http

Xauth and cygwin-X

server, but there is no such option documented for Xwin. I've seen some emails from other people that they cannot get this to work. Hopefully somebody on this list knows better... Many thanks! Kris Thielemans Hammersmith Imanet, part of GE Healthcare London, United Kingdom -- Unsubscribe info

Re: Gdb and stopping at assert or segmentation faults

Hi all Dave Korn dave.korn at artimi.com writes: Anyway, break __assert works for catching the assertions. Dunno what's up with the SEGVs. well, it turns out Dave's suggestion doesn't work anymore on latest cygwin (tested this only with C++ programs): GNU gdb

Re: Gdb and stopping at assert or segmentation faults

Dave Korn dave.korn at artimi.com writes: Anyway, break __assert works for catching the assertions. Dunno what's up with the SEGVs. Hi Dave I thought this would break even when the assertion didn't fail, but I was wrong there! Good suggestion! Thanks Kris -- Unsubscribe info:

Gdb and stopping at assert or segmentation faults

? Many thanks Kris Thielemans Hammersmith Imanet Ltd PS: please reply-all such that I get your reply directly in my box as I read this list via the mail archive. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

RE: Gdb and stopping at assert or segmentation faults

Hi Brian You need to set the 'error_start' parameter of the CYGWIN environment variable to the (windows) path of gdb. I think what you're saying is that if I do this, it will launch gdb on the crash? Ok. However, what I was saying is that I would like to be able to backtrace when I launch

RE: fork error in Windows 2003 running as normal user

Hi Corinna and Igor Does setting CYGWIN to notraverse help? Hum. I'll have to confess now. Today it works (i.e. even without notraverse)... I guess a reboot was necessary after changing the permissions (don't understand why). So I guess (but am not sure) Igor's suggestion was the right one

Re: fork error in Windows 2003 running as normal user

running id.exe for instance). I've attached both cygchecks. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Kris Thielemans Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Wed Mar 23 22:37:43 2005 Windows XP Home Edition Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 Path: C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin C:\cygwin

RE: fork error in Windows 2003 running as normal user

Hi Igor Thanks for your help. What does getfacl /bin report? I'd bet there isn't an inheritable execute permission for everyone. If this is the case, all the DLLs will not be executable for other, which is consistent with your symptoms below. $ getfacl /bin # file: /bin # owner:

RE: Doh! problem solved was Re: bug? - startxwin.bat missing from recent Cygwin install

I'll bet I'm not the only noob making the same mistake. You weren't! Thanks for the info. It's a good suggestion. Kris

problem with bash command line

have GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i686-pc-cygwin). (sorry for such a long message for such a small thing). (please reply explictly to me as I'm reading this mailing list via the web) Thanks! Kris Thielemans Hammersmith Imanet (formerly IRSL) Cyclotron Building Hammersmith Hospital Du

RE: Pointer bug in multiwindow mode (native window manager)

Using the current Cygwin X Server in multiwindow mode (i.e. Windows native window manager), I get the X pointer when the mouse is in the menu, toolbar and scrollbar areas of Gnome applications. The problem goes away when I switch to rootless mode and run another window manager, such as

RE: XWin and multiple users

Just for the record: another solution is to make /tmp a user mount, and have it in a different location for each user. That has other connotations, presumably, but I thought I'd mention it here for completeness. I seem to remember that user mounts are ignored by services. As sshd

RE: XWin and multiple users

Hi I started a thread on this a few months ago. Some mail-archive searching would help you. Unless you want to use Fast-User-Switching (FUS), the solution is to exit XWin before you log out ( a good idea in any case), e.g. by double cliking the X icon in your task bar. If you do need FUS,

RE: XWin and multiple users

userstartup $DISPLAY file in /tmp --- Alice XWin :0 $OPTIONS localhost:0.0 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 Bob XWin :1 $OPTIONS localhost:1.0 /tmp/.X11-unix/X1 thanks! this brings me to the security scare that I

bash command line not visible

- WM_DRAWCLIPBOARD - Nested calls detected. Bailing. - but I don't know if that's related. Of course, I'm not sure if this is a bug in XWin (could it be the readline library maybe?). If I can make this happen again, I'll let you know. Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans at imperial.ac.uk

RE: problem resizing tunneled xterm

Well, on the local xterm, I didn't ssh, su, login or whatever. It's just a local terminal. However, typing 'resize' indeed solves the problem. Thanks for the help! a final note. 'resize' works around the problem on the local (i.e. cygwin) terminal, but not for an xterm on my debian system.

RE: problem resizing tunneled xterm

Hi Thomas, Well, on the local xterm, I didn't ssh, su, login or whatever. It's just a local terminal. However, typing 'resize' indeed solves the problem. Thanks for the help! Kris I now have the same behaviour on a local xterm (on an XP SP1 machine running xorg Xwin 6.6.0.0-8, rest is

RE: problem resizing tunneled xterm

Hi, further on this. I now have the same behaviour on a local xterm (on an XP SP1 machine running xorg Xwin 6.6.0.0-8, rest is latest cygwin). The funny thing is that it happens in one xterm only, and I cannot reproduce it in others... In fact, I don't think I resized that xterm yet (started it

problem resizing tunneled xterm

does display the whole line, but with line breaks at the original width. Note that for local xterms, this problem does not exist. any suggestions? Thanks! (running NT 4.0 sp6a and the latest cygwin/xorg) Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans at imperial.ac.uk) Hammersmith Imanet (formerly IRSL

RE: problem resizing tunneled xterm

Maybe the local xterm is newer and already contains a fix for this problem. I can't think of a different reason why the remote xterm would behave different. ok. the debian xterm I'm using is version XFree86 4.2.0(165), while the cygwin is XFree86 4.4(185). Not sure if I can update this

RE: Mouse pointer disappears

everything (saying something along the lines of refusing connection from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0 which was my current IP number). I thought this might have happened because my IP number changed from when I started the server, but I haven't been able to reproduce this. Thanks for all the effort! Kris Thielemans

UK keyboard layout problem

according to what setup says) Thanks! Kris Thielemans Hammersmith Imanet Cyclotron Building Hammersmith Hospital Du Cane Road London W12 ONN, United Kingdom web site address: http://www.hammersmithimanet.com/~kris

RE: UK keyboard layout problem

Thanks Alexander try removing /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb.old-1 and recreate the link ln -sf /etc/X11/xkb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb ok. that maybe happened because of an aborted installation or so. I did that, restarted the X server, and now it recognises my keyboard without having to explicitly

Xwin freezes when IE6 crashes...

it to the foreground. It doesn't refresh anymore etc. Killing IE doesn't help unfortunately. Nothing much you anyone can do about this I guess, but it's pretty weird, no? Kris Thielemans

xterm keyboard problems when login-in to a sun

-pendin iexten opost -olcuc onlcr -ocrnl -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel -tabs stty -a with xterm on the SUN looks very similar. Kris Thielemans PS: when xterm displays a shell from the PC, backspace works as I expect, but that's because stty -a reports 'erase=^H'. I wouldn't mind if anybody told me

Smtp server

Hi, I know this is somewhat off-topic, but I would appreciate if somebody could tell me if it's easy to set-up an smtp server (included in cygwin distrib) on my own PC. (I'll be travelling and won't be able to use my regular smtp server as it doesn't allow access to external IP numbers). Of

Re: Problems with .exe files

tow rok, and I quite like it. For example on an older cygwin (1.3.22-1) touch t.exe cp t a ls a - says a exists ls a* - says a.exe exists Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans at imperial.ac.uk) Hammersmith Imanet (formerly IRSL) Cyclotron Building Hammersmith Hospital Du Cane Road London W12 ONN

RE: Re: Problems with .exe files

oops. that went off too fast. ignore previous email. sorry Hi Andrew Why would you think that you can cp t as just t but you'd have to touch t.exe? The real name of the file is t.exe, for touch, cp, rm, etc. The only time that just t suffices is for exec. Because it used to work on

Problems with .exe files

on this issue will also be welcome. Many thanks Kris Thielemans PS: I'd appreciate a CC to me as I'm reading this mailing list by google and/or archive. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http

xterm -ls -e

within an existing xterm/bash session. Typing xterm -ls -e /usr/bin/bash does not read the profile, while xterm -ls does. So, I suspect an xterm problem. I'm using NT 4.0 sp6a and a cygwin setup of 30th of August (i.e. before the 64 bit stuff). Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans at imperial.ac.uk

Re: Xwin crashes - XP servicepack 1 problem?

) because I'm a bit reluctant to go to the new 64 bit stuff before lots of other people have tried it Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans at imperial.ac.uk) Hammersmith Imanet Cyclotron Building Hammersmith Hospital Du Cane Road London W12 ONN, United Kingdom web site address: http

remote xemacs and selection problem (using XWin -clipboard)

, the problem reappears. The problem does not occur in xemacs -nw, so it is definitely X related. I'm running xemacs 21.4 on debian if that matters. (I'm using ssh -X remote) $ cygcheck -c XFree86-xserv Cygwin Package Information Package Version XFree86-xserv4.3.0-5 Kris

RE: problem accessing tape with tar on NT

Cygwin V1.1.3. -- No clue what this means. Thanks for your help Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans at ic.ac.uk) Imaging Research Solutions Ltd Cyclotron Building Hammersmith Hospital Du Cane Road London W12 ONN, United Kingdom web site address: http://www.irsl.org/~kris I'm trying to access

problem accessing tape with tar on NT

sion : on $ /usr/bin/tar xvf /dev/st0 /usr/bin/tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: Permission denied /usr/bin/tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now /usr/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now What's wrong? (cygcheck output attached). Thanks! Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans at ic.ac.uk

RE: ntsec and remote copy

recently reinstalled and upgraded the whole of cygwin, so I don't think it's because I have old versions lying around). Thanks for the help Kris -Original Message- From: Kris Thielemans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 December 2002 16:26 To: Gnuwin Subject: RE: ntsec

RE: setup troubles: Download incomplete

Hi, sorry for the late follow-up. new text is at the end -Original Message- From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 December 2002 13:54 To: Kris Thielemans; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: setup troubles: Download incomplete At 04:57 AM 12/6/2002

ntsec and remote copy

Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans at ic.ac.uk) Imaging Research Solutions Ltd Cyclotron Building Hammersmith Hospital Du Cane Road London W12 ONN, United Kingdom web site address: http://www.irsl.org/~kris cygcheck.out Description: Binary data -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

RE: ntsec and remote copy

?) Kris -Original Message- From: Kris Thielemans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 December 2002 14:03 To: Gnuwin Cc: Kris Thielemans Subject: ntsec and remote copy Hi, I have a problem with ntsec I think. I copied files from a remote disk (a Windows NT server) using

RE: setup troubles: Download incomplete

, as this happened over the years, and I never checked before. Also, I deleted all of the mirror files except one to save disk space... Thanks a lot Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans at ic.ac.uk) Imaging Research Solutions Ltd Cyclotron Building Hammersmith Hospital Du Cane Road London W12 ONN, United Kingdom

RE: setup troubles: Download incomplete

In the list of mirrors, did you ctrl-click to select the 3, or did you single click, thus choosing a single, different mirror. Setup only prevents duplicates when it knows all the mirrors you are using. ah. sorry. didn't know that. I single click another mirror whenever I have trouble with

setup troubles: Download incomplete

tell me why setup stores copies of files in subdirectories named after the mirror. This means that I end up with several copies of the same .tar.bz2 files, as I often have to switch mirrors (they seem to be very busy once in a while). Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans at ic.ac.uk) Imaging Research

Re: setup feature request

Less clicking, more familiar user interface, but more programming work I guess. All the best, Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans at ic.ac.uk) Imaging Research Solutions Ltd Cyclotron Building Hammersmith Hospital Du Cane Road London W12 ONN, United Kingdom web site address: http://www.irsl.org/~kris

RE: setup feature request

(or just a part of it) easily. Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans at ic.ac.uk) Imaging Research Solutions Ltd Cyclotron Building Hammersmith Hospital Du Cane Road London W12 ONN, United Kingdom web site address: http://www.irsl.org/~kris

RE: setup feature request

- what's the difference between 'default' and 'install'? ok, now I know there's no a difference for Base and Misc, but I still don't know what the difference is for the others ... (I guess I'm missing something obvious here) - it should be very easy to add 'remove' as well. This will

RE: setup feature request

Ah yes. Default = If the package is installed, upgrade to the selected trust level (prev, current or experimental). If the package is not installed, but is in base or misc, install the select trust level's version of that package. Install = Install the selected trust level's version of

setup cancellation

the installation now, finish the installing of the packages setup already copied, or keep on going? I'm sure this is not so easy to do though (so I'm not volunteering I'm afraid). Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans at ic.ac.uk) Imaging Research Solutions Ltd Cyclotron Building Hammersmith Hospital Du

RE: setup feature request

I don't like it. Setup's clicky spin control things are not the easiest thing to use. I would much prefer a radio button. well, obviously I thought so as well, as I didn't even see the 'spin control'. but now that I know they're there, I like them. I agree that the functionality of the

RE: setup feature request

It's already a lot of clicking. Which is why I advocate a radio button. but you can't have a radiobutton for every category...

a final (?) feature request for setup

Hi, I'd really like that the end-box with 'create icon on desk top' and 'add icon to start menu' has the check boxes not ticked when a previous installation is detected. (or at least have 'create icon on desk top' not checked all the time). Or maybe I can do that with the command line options,

RE: setup feature request (THREAD MOVING to CYGWIN-APPS)

Setup design discussion happens on [EMAIL PROTECTED] This thread is moving there. sorry. Will it be implemented? (I hope so, and the implementer can get a really nice email from me). I volunteer. fantastic! But I suggest we remove the prev radio button - definitely. it doesn't

setup feature request

) Will it be implemented? (I hope so, and the implementer can get a really nice email from me). Keep up the good work! Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans at ic.ac.uk) Imaging Research Solutions Ltd Cyclotron Building Hammersmith Hospital Du Cane Road London W12 ONN, United Kingdom web site address

man pages

Hi, why are the man page names abbreviated? e.g. instead of typeing 'man XCreateWindow', I have to do 'man XCreWin' Or is there something wrong in my installation? thanks! Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans at ic.ac.uk) Imaging Research Solutions Ltd Cyclotron Building Hammersmith Hospital Du

RE: help about TERM type in new cygwin version

with TERM=cygwin. Hi, bearing in mind what Joe Buehler said recently about emacs, you should check your termcap installation (maybe reinstall it via setup?). Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans at ic.ac.uk) Imaging Research Solutions Ltd Cyclotron Building Hammersmith Hospital Du Cane Road London W12

RE: cygwin/emacs display problems, was: terminal-mode cygwin/emacs problem

exceed X-windows emulator.) Also, the startx command is only available when you installed the XFree package. and I guess you should also mention the CYGWIN=tty. (Not that I tried it without that). Oh, I see now that I can modify that page myself. Neat. But I'll let you do it now. Kris Thielemans

ntsec question

. Thanks for all the great stuff! Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans at ic.ac.uk) Imaging Research Solutions Ltd Cyclotron Building Hammersmith Hospital Du Cane Road London W12 ONN, United Kingdom web site address: http://www.irsl.org/~kris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

RE: chmod

with the ntsec feature enabled. Hopefully someone else can clarify this and put it in the FAQ/User's guide) Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans at ic.ac.uk) Imaging Research Solutions Ltd Cyclotron Building Hammersmith Hospital Du Cane Road London W12 ONN, United Kingdom web site address: http

RE: cygwin/emacs remaps C-h

Hi Tom, I have begun running the cygwinized emacs GNU Emacs 21.2 (i686-pc-cygwin) of 2002-10-14 that is setup.exe-able from cygwin 1.3.13-1. It was very easy to setup, does that mean you've sorted out the terminal problem then? (I didn't have any problems are doing the CYGWIN and TERM

RE: emacs on cygwin

Hi Gareth and all, just to mention that I'm using cygwin's telnetd now (I was using exceed's telnetd), and now emacs -nw works perfectly! thanks Kris To add to my tests I reported in my previous mail: - I am on my NT PC - I telnet (using cygwin's telnet) to my NT PC -

RE: emacs on cygwin

However, I don't use the Cygwin port of Emacs (yet?), so I also do not know the status of using emacs -nw from a remote shell. Has anyone tried this? Does it work? Hi I have NT4.0, latest cygwin, Exceed for X-windows emulation and Exceed telnetd. I let cygwin-setup install 'emacs with X

RE: emacs on cygwin

Hi Bjoern, that's interesting, as emacs -nw doesn't work for me... Could you offer a bit more detail on what you mean with remote execution? Where do you com from? Which daemon are you using? To add to my tests I reported in my previous mail: - I am on my NT PC - I telnet (using cygwin's

my CVS on NT stopped working

the module again somewhere else, everything works nicely. Even stranger, when I run cvs from in gdb, it works fine. I've tried to upgrade to cvs 1.11.2, but identical problems. Same problem when I use cygwin's cvs version that setup installs (didn't try to gdb trick there) Any ideas? Thanks! Kris

RE: my CVS on NT stopped working

Hi Igor, -Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Kris, It looks like your Cygwin cvs sends a carriage return as part of the directory name. Seems to me that your CVS/Root and CVS/Repository files are opened in text mode. See if you've changed the