Re: FYI: Reboot is needed after a failed setup.

2004-11-16 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:13:48AM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Speaking of the order in which scripts are run (but unrelated to this discussion): the logic that is supposed to invoke postinstall scripts in topological

Re: FYI: Reboot is needed after a failed setup.

2004-11-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 11:37:02AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:13:48AM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Speaking of the order in which scripts are run (but unrelated to this discussion): the logic that

Setup patch: List command line options on stdout

2004-11-16 Thread Dave
Here's a simple and useful patch for setup. Might reduce queries about unattended installs, and save people having to resort to source. Patch is against CVS (as of yesterday). Modify the leader text as you see fit :) Dave Kilroy. __ Do you

Re: [UPDATE] chere-0.5-2

2004-11-16 Thread Dave
Peter A. Castro wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Dave wrote: Corinna/Peter - what are the chances of an update or migration of these files to base-files? Updating the startup zprofile for chere support is in my queue of things to get done for the next zsh release. Unfortunately, my main server was

The allegation is that setup is keeping open handles around...

2004-11-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
...is it true? It seems like there are some valid concerns about problems with setup.exe in the cygwin mailing list and no one is addressing them. Setup.exe is too important a piece of the cygwin release for it to go unsupported. Please, someone (Max?) respond to and, if possible, investigate

Re: Do we still have a ghostscript maintainer?

2004-11-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:00:43PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: I notice that there hasn't been a new release of ghostscript in some time. We need a new release to eliminate some of the lurking dependencies on the deprecated XFree86. Dario, are you still with us? If so, is there any chance

RE: The allegation is that setup is keeping open handles around...

2004-11-16 Thread Robb, Sam
...is it true? It seems like there are some valid concerns about problems with setup.exe in the cygwin mailing list and no one is addressing them. Setup.exe is too important a piece of the cygwin release for it to go unsupported. Please, someone (Max?) respond to and, if possible,

Re: The allegation is that setup is keeping open handles around...

2004-11-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 12:28:27AM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote: So it looks like the package files aren't being closed somewhere. Taking a look at the source, and trying to figure out where something like this might occur, I ended up in in install.cc, where I saw the following comment in

RE: fontconfig/fontconfig.h is missing

2004-11-16 Thread Jörg Schaible
Christopher Faylor wrote on Monday, November 15, 2004 4:55 PM: On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 09:42:49AM +0100, J?rg Schaible wrote: although I've reinstalled Xorg and now the X11 libs are present, libfontconfig-devel seems still have problems. I reassured, that the downloaded package, that was

Re: WMaker 0.90 broken?

2004-11-16 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Mark Paulus wrote: Xlib: extension MIT-SHM missing on display :0.0. Does window maker require SHM? Maybe you should consider running cygserver for shared memory support. wmaker warning: could not load font: helvetica:slant=0:weight=100:pixelsize=12. wmaker warning:

RE: Problems with ssh and tunnelling with cygwin 1.5.12

2004-11-16 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Nick Wisniewski Sent: 15 November 2004 19:58 Is this really sh.exe? Can you check whether this sh.exe process is running before you start ssh (e.g., compare the outputs of ps -ef before and after ssh -X)? before bash-2.05b$

Problem Starting Xterm

2004-11-16 Thread Kevin Piotrowicz
Hi, I have just installed cygwin on WIN XP, with the all xorg packages installed. But not the xfree86 ones because they say removed package beside them - which I take to mean they are deprecated? Anyway by using either startxwin.bat startx or startxwin.sh, the xwin program starts and has the

Problems after move to Windows 2003 domain

2004-11-16 Thread Tim Saunders
A month ago I had cygwin working perfectly. Then we upgraded to a Windows 2003 domain. I still have the same XP work station but now when I run startx cygwin crashes with errors about the clipboard. I have tried disabled the shared clipboard feature and the X server will now come up. I can run

Re: Problem Starting Xterm

2004-11-16 Thread Mark Paulus
How are you starting your xterm? Are you giving it the -display option (xterm -display :0 )? On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:40:53 +, Kevin Piotrowicz wrote: Hi, I have just installed cygwin on WIN XP, with the all xorg packages installed. But not the xfree86 ones because they say removed

Re: WMaker 0.90 broken?

2004-11-16 Thread Mark Paulus
Well, it does seem to be a font issue. I used setup, and did a re-install of a couple of x11 font packages and everthing seems to be working just fine. On a side note, ipc-daemon2 does not seem to provide whatever is needed by MIT-SHM, as I get that message, whether I have ipc-daemon2 started or

Re: WMaker 0.90 broken?

2004-11-16 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Mark Paulus wrote: Well, it does seem to be a font issue. I used setup, and did a re-install of a couple of x11 font packages and everthing seems to be working just fine. On a side note, ipc-daemon2 does not seem to provide whatever is needed by MIT-SHM, as I get that

Problems with ssh and tunnelling with cygwin 1.5.12

2004-11-16 Thread Nick Wisniewski
Dave Korn wrote: that ought to give you enough information to find out what's wrong. Try ssh -v -v -v rest of options and see what that tells you. I try this and it hangs with a response: debug2: x11_get_proto: /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth -f /tmp/ssh-LuCdTO1472/xauthfile gen erate unix:0

Re: Problems with ssh and tunnelling with cygwin 1.5.12

2004-11-16 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Nick Wisniewski wrote: Dave Korn wrote: that ought to give you enough information to find out what's wrong. Try ssh -v -v -v rest of options and see what that tells you. I try this and it hangs with a response: debug2: x11_get_proto: /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth -f

GLX acceleration?

2004-11-16 Thread Lester Ingber
In an effort to get better performance on my ThinkPad/XPPRo I'm considering adding the experimental GLX acceleration module offered under setup. Is anyone using this? How do you turn it on? Thanks. Lester

Re: GLX acceleration?

2004-11-16 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Lester Ingber wrote: In an effort to get better performance on my ThinkPad/XPPRo I'm considering adding the experimental GLX acceleration module offered under setup. Is anyone using this? I've tested it with some programs including the glut suite. Some of the glut

src/winsup/cygwin cygthread.cc cygthread.h cyg ...

2004-11-16 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Branch: noreparent Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-11-16 15:16:58 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : cygthread.cc cygthread.h cygtls.cc cygtls.h dcrt0.cc exceptions.cc external.cc

Help needed with installation

2004-11-16 Thread Thomas Gumpinger
I think I'm going crazy... When I try ton stall cygwin on my machine here (XEON 3200 with 3 GB of RAM) the installation seems to work perfectly... But the etc directory stays empty, no passwd file is created, there is no /home Well, I have checked the mailing list and changed the permissions

rlogin with trusted account still prompts for password.

2004-11-16 Thread jean . samoise
Hi. I am having trouble with cygwin.My PC runs WINDOWS 2000. Trying to rlogin to a unix machine as trusted account, with the correct configured .rhost files, so including the account used in the rlogin, the password prompt still comes. One clue : the id command gives for uid not exactly my NT

For me this worked:

2004-11-16 Thread Ronny Schoeniger
Delete the leading TAB in line 70, so that the first character of the line is the E of EOF 60 # Run all of the profile.d scripts 61 # Note that these are supplied by separate packages 62 # Ascending alphanumerical order enforced 63 if [ -d /etc/profile.d ]; then 64 while read f; do

RE: Problems with ssh and tunnelling with cygwin 1.5.12

2004-11-16 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Nick Wisniewski Sent: 15 November 2004 19:58 Is this really sh.exe? Can you check whether this sh.exe process is running before you start ssh (e.g., compare the outputs of ps -ef before and after ssh -X)? before bash-2.05b$

RE: URGENT HELP: How does a cygwin.dll by passes ws2_32.dll?

2004-11-16 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Nagamani Veerappa Sent: 16 November 2004 06:31 Dear experts, I wonder how can a exe compiled using gcc on cygwin by passes ws2_32.dll? Basically I have a windows program compiled using MSVC, need to use socket interfaces

RE: Getting latest version of cygwin1.dll

2004-11-16 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Gary R. Van Sickle Sent: 16 November 2004 04:20 To: cygwin Subject: RE: Getting latest version of cygwin1.dll How old are you not yet to have learned that saying 'Hey, you stupid bastards, you guys really suck, help me out

Re: /etc/profile error

2004-11-16 Thread kynn
X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Cygwin List [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:42:19 -0500 From: Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 05:38 PM 11/15/2004, you wrote: Whenever I bring up a Cygwin shell, I get the following error: bash:

RE: URGENT HELP: How does a cygwin.dll by passes ws2_32.dll?

2004-11-16 Thread Nagamani Veerappa
Dave, Thanks for the response atleast.. I understand that anyboody would really laugh...when a dll is exposing symbols..but I can't link them But thats true..probably because of the incompatibilities,linking would not be successfull at ALL I have got it SOLVED I made another DLL..and

RE: URGENT HELP: How does a cygwin.dll by passes ws2_32.dll?

2004-11-16 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: Nagamani Veerappa Sent: 16 November 2004 13:43 Dave, Thanks for the response atleast.. I understand that anyboody would really laugh...when a dll is exposing symbols..but I can't link them But thats true..probably because of the

RE: /etc/profile error

2004-11-16 Thread Harig, Mark
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-11/msg00106.html Look for a very current mirror and update. Sorry for the very ignorant question, but what is one supposed to do with base-files-3.1-4.tar.bz2? Up to now I've been doing all installations with the Cygwin installer application

mailling list ID tag

2004-11-16 Thread D N
I apologize if this has been suggested before... Would it be possible to ask the kind Cygwin people to put a tag on their mailing list? For example, I am subscribed to several other lists that use: [Subject] as their tag. This makes filtering into different folders easy and I can find what I

RE: mailling list ID tag

2004-11-16 Thread Richard Campbell
A google search for: [cygwin] tag mailing list site:cygwin.com would be useful. The following posts: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg00831.html (other headers to filter on) http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg00800.html (a subject will not be added) especially. -Richard

cygserver won't start after update

2004-11-16 Thread Bill Harris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Forgive me if this is a FAQ; I checked the FAQ, the User's Guide, and the mailiing list archive without turning up anything that looked promising. ,[ Problem Summary ] | I updated my cygwin installation on 2004-11-15; since then, I can't run |

ps2pdf: no output?

2004-11-16 Thread Brian Noble
I've got a freshly-updated cygwin distribution, using sigunix.crwu.edu's mirror. For reasons I can't understand, ps2pdf silently produces no output. For example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/my-documents/pedigree $ ls CVS prop.bib prop.log prop.tex prop.aux prop.dvi prop.ps

g++ 3.4.1

2004-11-16 Thread Martin Magnusson
I just tried upgrading from g++ 3.3.1 (which currently gives me an internal compiler error on my code) to the 3.4.1 version available from the Cygwin setup. After doing so, however, I get a flood of error messages about the many templates I have (such as template-id xxx for yyy does not match

scp exits often with -1

2004-11-16 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi folks, after upgrading to latest cygwin1.dll and openssh I have massive problems with ssh/scp. Using e.g. the same scp command it fails from time to time called from the command line. Unfortunately it fails more often when called from a shell script and quite every time when this shell

Re: g++ 3.4.1

2004-11-16 Thread Mikael Åsberg
Martin Magnusson wrote: I just tried upgrading from g++ 3.3.1 (which currently gives me an internal compiler error on my code) to the 3.4.1 version available from the Cygwin setup. After doing so, however, I get a flood of error messages about the many templates I have (such as template-id xxx

LANG=1033

2004-11-16 Thread Michael Hipp
I just did a fresh install on a WinXP SP2 system. After PostgreSQL refused to run 'initdb' with some error like 1033 is an invalid parameter, I noticed that it has LANG=1033 in the environment. I checked several other Cygwin installations and none of them even have a LANG variable. Doing

RE: LANG=1033

2004-11-16 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Michael Hipp Sent: 16 November 2004 18:48 I just did a fresh install on a WinXP SP2 system. After PostgreSQL refused to run 'initdb' with some error like 1033 is an invalid parameter, I noticed that it has LANG=1033 in the

RE: /etc/profile error

2004-11-16 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Harig, Mark wrote: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-11/msg00106.html Look for a very current mirror and update. Sorry for the very ignorant question, but what is one supposed to do with base-files-3.1-4.tar.bz2? Up to now I've been doing all

very slow/nonfunctional updatedb?

2004-11-16 Thread Lester Ingber
I think this problem is correlated to my installing Norton GoBack in their SystemWorks 2005 Premier edition. However, I do not seem to be sufferring any great slowdown on other Cygwin utilities. gupdatedb usually takes 18-19 minutes to run on my ThinkPad/XPPro. The current job is taking over 2

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: chere-0.5-2

2004-11-16 Thread Dave
chere is a Cygwin package to manage Shell Here functionality. It adds items to the Explorer Drive and Directory context menus. The named shell is started in the selected drive/directory when the menu item is chosen. If, like me, you're paranoid about your Registry, chere can display what it

Sound generator starting package for Linux/Cygwin

2004-11-16 Thread Theo Verelst
L.S. I've started a sound generator package on Linux and Cygwin consisting of a sound server program based on Portaudio library connected with a Tcl/Tk script with user interface, in this case starting with a 8 harmonics sliders like in an organ. See: http://82.168.209.239/Soundtest Regards,

Problems with ssh and tunnelling with cygwin 1.5.12

2004-11-16 Thread Nick Wisniewski
Dave Korn wrote: that ought to give you enough information to find out what's wrong. Try ssh -v -v -v rest of options and see what that tells you. I try this and it hangs with a response: debug2: x11_get_proto: /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth -f /tmp/ssh-LuCdTO1472/xauthfile gen erate unix:0

Re: Problems with ssh and tunnelling with cygwin 1.5.12

2004-11-16 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Nick Wisniewski wrote: Dave Korn wrote: that ought to give you enough information to find out what's wrong. Try ssh -v -v -v rest of options and see what that tells you. I try this and it hangs with a response: debug2: x11_get_proto: /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth -f

ampersand at character 2048 in a command is lost in make

2004-11-16 Thread Jeremy Broughton
Using cygwin 1.3.10 and 1.5.7, if an '' ampersand character appears at character 2048 of a makefile command, the ampersand is lost from the command. If white-space is manipulated to move the one character forward or backward in the makefile command, everything works fine. I have attached a

Re: ampersand at character 2048 in a command is lost in make

2004-11-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 04:56:51PM -0500, Jeremy Broughton wrote: Using cygwin 1.3.10 and 1.5.7, if an '' ampersand character appears at character 2048 of a makefile command, the ampersand is lost from the command. If white-space is manipulated to move the one character forward or backward in

Re: What to do when setup fails?

2004-11-16 Thread luke . kendall
On 11 Nov, Reini Urban replied to: I watched in task manager as setup's memory use climbed from 50MB to 127MB over a period of a few minutes. When next I looked nothing had visibly changed, except task manager reckoned setup was now using only 12MB (again climbing steadily upwards

Re: ampersand at character 2048 in a command is lost in make

2004-11-16 Thread Jeremy Broughton
With the latest version of cygwin, the windows '' command separators no longer work at all unless you use make --win32, which I guess is logical. I have confirmed that if you use the --win32 make flag using the latest cygwin, you will see the failure. Running make --win32 fail fails, but

Re: setup size prefs (from gmane.os.cygwin.applications)

2004-11-16 Thread luke . kendall
On 4 Nov, Reini Urban wrote: Reini Urban wrote: Which window sizes do we want to store? I started with one size for all, then I rewrote for one size for each propertypage, and now I believe the best would be to store/restore only two sizes. The big size for the package list and the small for

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-16 Thread luke . kendall
On 11 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote: Guys, theres a major problem with setup. According to the error I just got, setup is not closing any of its files after writing them. I finally got past xorg, and got up to update_info. I'll rerun setup to get a cygcheck. I can confirm this. We took

Re: g++ 3.4.1

2004-11-16 Thread Tim Prince
At 10:17 AM 11/16/2004, Mikael Åsberg wrote: Martin Magnusson wrote: I just tried upgrading from g++ 3.3.1 (which currently gives me an internal compiler error on my code) to the 3.4.1 version available from the Cygwin setup. After doing so, however, I get a flood of error messages about the many

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-16 Thread Luke Kendall
On 17 Nov, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The system starts page faulting and the number of handles just grows and grows, and eventually setup dies I can add this: At the crash point, setup.exe has some 600 open handles and 2 Gb of VM. It's accumulated 2.5 million page faults. luke --

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-16 Thread Luke Kendall
I should also add that after a setup.exe crash at 9:38am after being left running overnight, later attempts to install that day (with the VM size steadily increasing, and setup.exe appearing to stick at the stage where it is installing the zip package), that setup.log was not updated by the later

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-16 Thread Bobby McNulty
Luke Kendall wrote: On 17 Nov, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The system starts page faulting and the number of handles just grows and grows, and eventually setup dies I can add this: At the crash point, setup.exe has some 600 open handles and 2 Gb of VM. It's accumulated 2.5 million

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-16 Thread Luke Kendall
On 16 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote: Then I'm not the only one noticing this? No, myself and one other person here have begun noticing it. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Update: chere-0.5-2

2004-11-16 Thread Dave
chere is a Cygwin package to manage Shell Here functionality. It adds items to the Explorer Drive and Directory context menus. The named shell is started in the selected drive/directory when the menu item is chosen. If, like me, you're paranoid about your Registry, chere can display what it