Server segmentation fault at address 0x306 using ParaView

2010-11-28 Thread Ken Olum
Running paraview 3.8.1 (see http://paraview.org) on a Linux client (Mandriva 2010.0 or Red Hat Enterprise Server 5.5) causes a crash of my Cygwin/X (release 1.9.2.0) with Segmentation fault at address 0x306. Any ideas? Paraview uses OpenGL. Perhaps that is related. Thanks.

cygwin 1.7 startxwin failing due to winMultiWindowXMsgProc - another window manager is running. Exiting.

2010-11-28 Thread Oly
Not sure when this started happening ... but sometime recently, starting the xserver became a hit/miss proposition (mostly miss). I'm running Windows XP Pro Service Pack 3 with the cygwin 1.7.7-1 and xorg-server 1.9.2-1 (as reported by the setup wizard). I am using the installed x server start

Re: How to debug mintty or screen freeze

2010-11-28 Thread Andy Koppe
On 27 November 2010 10:49, Henry S. Thompson wrote: Andy Koppe writes: [screen + mintty freezing] Another thing you could try is to enable logging to a file using the --log command option. Perhaps that will show what control sequence triggers the problem. Obviously you'll want to remove any

Re: R: Question about cygwin installation and folder permissions

2010-11-28 Thread Vincent Richomme
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 01:07:44 +0300, Andrey Repin anrdae...@freemail.ru wrote: Greetings, Marco Atzeri! run setup and choose the directory you want the default proposal is c:\cygwin To add: Strongly advised against paths with spaces or national letters. Again I was not very clear I

Re: R: Question about cygwin installation and folder permissions

2010-11-28 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Dom 28/11/10, Vincent Richomme ha scritto: On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 01:07:44 +0300, Andrey Repin anrdae...@freemail.ru wrote: Greetings, Marco Atzeri! run setup and choose the directory you want the default proposal is c:\cygwin To add: Strongly advised against paths with

Re: R: Question about cygwin installation and folder permissions

2010-11-28 Thread Vincent Richomme
wrote: Greetings, Marco Atzeri! run setup and choose the directory you want the default proposal is c:\cygwin To add: Strongly advised against paths with spaces or national letters. Again I was not very clear I don't want to know how to install cygwin because even a monkey

Re: R: Question about cygwin installation and folder permissions

2010-11-28 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Vincent Richomme! run setup and choose the directory you want the default proposal is c:\cygwin To add: Strongly advised against paths with spaces or national letters. Again I was not very clear I don't want to know how to install cygwin because even a monkey can do it.

Re: scp just spews usage

2010-11-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/27/2010 1:56 PM, Ken Jackson wrote: On 11/27/2010 09:28 AM, Brian Wilson wrote: I had a similar issue. It seems that some updates do not complete successfully under the circumstances you describe. I suspect there is an issue with shells failing to run successfully as I often have to try

Re: R: Question about cygwin installation and folder permissions

2010-11-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 02:04:48AM +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Vincent Richomme! run setup and choose the directory you want the default proposal is c:\cygwin To add: Strongly advised against paths with spaces or national letters. Again I was not very clear I don't want to

File paths redirected to MSYS directory

2010-11-28 Thread Nathan Rose
I have just installed Cygwin on my WinXP box for the first time. I already had MSYS installed. They are installed in the directories C:\cygwin and C:\msys respectively. Simple file operations like cp or mv work fine within Cygwin . However, when I try to open a file with vi, it opens the

Re: Question about cygwin + rsync and file permissions

2010-11-28 Thread Christian Franke
On 2010-09-16 Saxon, Will wrote: I am trying to copy files from a Linux machine to Windows using rsync. I am using rsync 3.0.7 and cygwin 1.7.5. The source files on the linux machine are all owned by root:root with mode 0755. When I copy them with the following command: rsync -clrtv

Re: File paths redirected to MSYS directory

2010-11-28 Thread Andy Koppe
On 29 November 2010 04:18, Nathan Rose wrote: I have just installed Cygwin on my WinXP box for the first time. I already had MSYS installed. They are installed in the directories C:\cygwin and C:\msys respectively. Simple file operations like cp or mv work fine within Cygwin . However, when