setup-x86_64.exe can not create download folder

Hi! I just downloaded https://www.cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe version 2.925 After starting, I: - selected "Install from Internet" (actually it was already selected) - left defaults: root dir=C:\cygwin64 , Install For: all users - the Local Package Directory was:

Duplicates in /proc/partitions

Before, during and after plugging in a n USB stick: $ cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name win-mounts 8 0 1000204632 sda 8 1102400 sda1 8 2 16384 sda2 8 3 999571820 sda3 C:\ 8 4510976 sda4 $ cat /proc/partitions major minor

Re: Conflict if same username local and in domain

cygwin (64) installation with default settings. Regards, David On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 21:42, L A Walsh wrote: > > On 2020/10/29 05:39, David Balažic via Cygwin wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I started Cygwin Terminal to find out, I landed in the other users > > home f

Conflict if same username local and in domain

Hi! I started Cygwin Terminal to find out, I landed in the other users home folder and have no write access. What happened was: - log into Windows as domain user DOM\JOE - start cygwin shell, land in /home/joe - log into Windows as local user JOE - start cygwin shell, land in /home/joe , but

latest openssh can not connect to older server

Hi! I tried to backup some files from my server with scp and failed: $ scp -v root@the.server:/root/a.file . Executing: program /usr/bin/ssh host the.server, user root, command scp -v -f /root/a.file OpenSSH_8.2p1, OpenSSL 1.1.1f 31 Mar 2020 debug1: Connecting to the.server [192.168.1.11]

pread() from /dev/sda fails with: Illegal seek

Hi! I'm porting an app from Linux to Cygwin and stumbled on this problem: pread on /dev/sda fails with Illegal seek. The simplified code is: #include #include #include #include int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { unsigned int sector_size = 512; void *buf = calloc(sector_size,1); int

Re: lrzip-0.631-1: pthread_createResource temporarily unavailable

I tried the same, but on a local (NTFS) volume and there it completed with no error. Will do some more tests and report... On Sun, 16 Jun 2019 at 22:05, David Balažic wrote: > > Hi! > > Using cygwin64 with latest updates, I got this error after running > lrzip (for hours): >

lrzip-0.631-1: pthread_createResource temporarily unavailable

Hi! Using cygwin64 with latest updates, I got this error after running lrzip (for hours): $ lrzip -v sda.2019-apr-01.local The following options are in effect for this COMPRESSION. Threading is ENABLED. Number of CPUs detected: 4 Detected 17168990208 bytes ram Compression level 7 Nice Value: 19

Re: File not visible in cygwin

Thanks, the file had the temporary attribute. Regards, David On Sun, 9 Dec 2018 at 19:32, Marco Atzeri wrote: > Am 09.12.2018 um 18:57 schrieb David Balažic: > > Hi! > > > > NOTE: This seems to be fixed in latest version. > > > > Yesterday i was doing a

File not visible in cygwin

Hi! NOTE: This seems to be fixed in latest version. Yesterday i was doing a 'find . -type f -print0' on my PC and noticed, that one file was missing in the output. Then I CD-ed into that folder and issued a ls -l, it printed: total 0 In Windows Explorer I could see that there is one file in

Re: setup 2.887 release candidate - please test

On 7 February 2018 at 01:49, Steven Penny wrote: > On Tue, 6 Feb 2018 15:04:49, Jon Turney wrote: > >> - Query the user for action to take if a corrupt local file is found >> > > works great - thanks > > - 'Current' is replaced by 'Best' (which is slightly different in ways >>

Re: Bug in lrzip 0.631-1 (32 bit version) with -d -o - options

of size 309956175 in flush_buffer Fatal error - exiting So in 32 bit, lrzip is seriously borken and should maybe be removed. Regards, David On 5 February 2017 at 15:19, David Balažic <xerc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5 February 2017 at 07:37, Marco Atzeri <marco.atz...@gmail.com> wr

Setup v2.879 - can not scroll package list

In the "Select Packages" part of the installer dialog, I selected in the "View" dropdown menu "Not Installed" and then tried to scroll thru the list using the mouse wheel. But it does not scroll the package list, instead it changes the selection in the mentioned drop down menu. Even after

Re: problem with nc 1.107-4

On 30 March 2017 at 04:24, 高锋 wrote: > I just installed the latest nc 1.107-4 on windows 7 platform.When lauched > the command like: > nc -vuz 10.31.28.188 6110 > ,each time it reported connecting successed,even if the target ip > 10.31.28.188 does not really exists. What

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 2.7.0-1

The problem described in the thread "Bug in lrzip 0.631-1 (32 bit version) with -d -o - options" persists with this update. (guessing it might be related to the pipi changes) Regards, David On 12 February 2017 at 13:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi folks, > > > I

Re: Console buffer width always 1 column less than setting

On 6 February 2017 at 18:54, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > the problem is that email address in clear will be reported on the > web archive and will be easy accessible to spam bot looking > for email address. > > It is specifically mentioned on: > https://cygwin.com/lists.html That would be even

Re: Bug in lrzip 0.631-1 (32 bit version) with -d -o - options

On 5 February 2017 at 07:37, Marco Atzeri wrote: > can you check if latest cygwin test solves the issue ? I did, it doesn't, see my previous message in thread. David -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Bug in lrzip 0.631-1 (32 bit version) with -d -o - options

is lost somewhere) I attach the cygcheck -s -v -r output again (with cygwin 2.7.0-0.1 , I later checked with 2.7.0-0.2 too, got the same results) Regards, David On 1 February 2017 at 22:25, David Balažic <xerc...@gmail.com> wrote: > I tried the 2.7.0-0.1 test release and now the behavio

Re: Bug in lrzip 0.631-1 (32 bit version) with -d -o - options

On 30 January 2017 at 16:23, David Balažic <xerc...@gmail.com> wrote: > I tried in Ubuntu 32 bit (both the packaged lrzip and a self compiled > one) and there the problem does not happen, so it looks like either: > - bad lrzip in cygwin > - cygwin pipe issues? > > Rega

Re: Bug in lrzip 0.631-1 (32 bit version) with -d -o - options

I tried in Ubuntu 32 bit (both the packaged lrzip and a self compiled one) and there the problem does not happen, so it looks like either: - bad lrzip in cygwin - cygwin pipe issues? Regards, David On 25 January 2017 at 23:15, David Balažic <xerc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! >

Bug in lrzip 0.631-1 (32 bit version) with -d -o - options

Hi! The 32 bit version of lrzip 0.631-1 contains a bug that corrupts the decompressed dat in some circumstances. I reproduced the problem on 2 PCs (the md5sum of the broken output was the same on both systems). I seems to happen when the (de)compressed file size is bigger than the available RAM

Re: Pipe behavior clarification?

On 23 January 2017 at 15:32, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 01/22/2017 04:23 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: >> On 1/22/2017 3:19 PM, David Balažic wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> Is this a correct pipe behavior? >>> >&

Pipe behavior clarification?

Hi! Is this a correct pipe behavior? $ echo booo | tee >(md5sum --tag) >/dev/null MD5 (-) = 9c8b79bdf79ef0ee73a77b8d36d27a2d $ echo booo | tee >(md5sum --tag) | cat >/dev/null It surprised me, that the output of md5sum is dealed the same way as the std output of tee in the second case, but

Huge cache usage while making hdd image with dd

d. Any idea what is going on? Where to look? Some system info: Intel i5-2320 16 GB RAM Intel H61 chipset C: Samsung SSD 830 128GB source drive (sdb) is an internal Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 (1 TB) * Seagate Desktop Expansion 5TB external drive, connected over USB3.0 Regards, David Balaži

Re: cmp (or echo) bug?

cat and diff work as expected: $ cat <(echo echo1) <(echo echo2) echo1 echo2 $ diff <(echo echo1) <(echo echo2) 1c1 < echo1 --- > echo2 So maybe the bug is really in cmp. Regards, David On 29 December 2015 at 17:43, Houder <hou...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 2015

Re: cmp (or echo) bug?

It is irrelevant how it is implemented. The command means "compare the output of those two commands" and the only correct result is "they differ on byte 5". It is clearly a bug. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: cmp (or echo) bug?

I tried it in zsh (32 bit cygwin) and there it works correctly: $ cmp <(echo echo1) <(echo echo2) /tmp/zshirbIJ1 /tmp/zshDsdZep differ: byte 5, line 1 So it seems the bug is in bash. Regards, David On 26 December 2015 at 13:49, Ismail Donmez <ism...@i10z.com> wrote: > Hi, &g

cmp (or echo) bug?

Hi! In Cygwin terminal (bash) I typed: cmp <(echo echo1) <(echo echo2) This does not print anything. Not even with -b. On Linux (Ubuntu 12.04 in VMWare) it reports that the inputs are different. Bug? Or am I missing something? I just updated to latest version of cygwin, to be sure. 32 bit

mbuffer or similar app?

Hi! Is there a port of mbuffer or a similar tool to cygwin? David -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Error on update, cygutils.sh exit code 127

Hi! I started the latest setup.exe (version 2.774), clicked Next,Next,Next (aka update my cygwin installation, a less clicking way would be welcome) and at the end it printed: Package: cygutils cygutils.sh exit code 127 /var/log/setup.log.full has this at the end: Installing file

Re: Error on update, cygutils.sh exit code 127

/libxml2.sh 2013/05/17 14:50:05 Changing gid to Administrators 2013/05/17 15:02:27 note: Installation Complete 2013/05/17 15:02:27 Ending cygwin install The same thing happened on another PC, so I guess this is some bug int he postinstall scripts. Regards, David On 17 May 2013 15:02, David Balažic

Setup.exe - pending view does not show all pending packages

Hi! If I start Setup.exe v2.774 on a PC where cygwin is already installed and I select to install new package (not yet installed), then the Pending view only shows this selected package and misses all the other pending packages (they would be upgraded as a newer version is available). Without

web archive is xenophobic (non ASCII characters problems)

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-05/ This page displays non ASCII characters wrongly. Namely the 'ž' in my last name. Also when showing the message content: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-05/msg00239.html Regards, David -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: date command shows time 20 minutes into future

After a reboot, it all works correctly again. Windows, I guess... :p Regards, David On 27 January 2012 21:17, David Balažic wrote: Hi! Just to note, the UTC printout is wrong too, so I assume this has nothing to do with timezones. European time is UTC+1 currently. TZ=CET date

date command shows time 20 minutes into future

Hi! I'm running an up to date version of cygwin (update a week ago or so) on Windows XP Pro SP3. Today I noticed the date command prints the wrong time: - actual wall clock time: 10:47 - date output: Fri Jan 27 11:07:38 CEST 2012 - date -u: Fri Jan 27 10:08:01 UTC 2012 - windows system time

Re: date command shows time 20 minutes into future

Hi! Just to note, the UTC printout is wrong too, so I assume this has nothing to do with timezones. European time is UTC+1 currently. TZ=CET date This prints he same time as with no TZ. (the difference being only the CE(S)T string) Regards, David -- Problem reports:

Incomplete installation of subversion

Hi! I have a reasonably up to date cygwin installation (did an update a week ago or so). Today I run the latest setup (v2.708). In Pending I saw a few libX packages and minttty 0.8.1. Then I selected subversion for install. On Next I got a dialog saying that subversion depended on additional

Setup.exe update confusion

Hi! I just downloaded and started Setup.exe (version 2.708). I have already Cygwin installed, I wnated just to update to newest state. So I clicked Next, until I got to the package selection. Before I used then to click the View button, to get a list of packages that would be updated. But

Re: Setup.exe update confusion

On 5 August 2010 18:00, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: On 8/5/2010 11:42 AM, David Balažic wrote: Hi! I just downloaded and started Setup.exe (version 2.708). I have already Cygwin installed, I wnated just to update to newest state. So I clicked Next, until I

PCYMTNQREAIYR Re: Setup.exe update confusion

On 5 August 2010 18:37, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/5/2010 12:24 PM, David Balažic wrote: On 5 August 2010 18:00, Larry Hall (Cygwin)  wrote:  ^^ http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR  Thanks. Without concrete advice that link doesn't do much. An average Joe has no idea what

Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR Re: Setup.exe update confusion

On 5 August 2010 19:13, DePriest, Jason R. jrdepri...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:51 AM, David Balažic wrote: On 5 August 2010 18:37, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/5/2010 12:24 PM, David Balažic wrote: On 5 August 2010 18:00, Larry Hall (Cygwin)  wrote:  ^^ http

Re: MS-DOS path warning with maven

On 10 May 2010 22:40, Jeremy Bopp jer...@bopp.net wrote: On 5/10/2010 3:11 PM, David Balažic wrote: On 10 May 2010 20:52, Jeremy Bopp jer...@bopp.net wrote: What's the output when you run the following? $ sh -x $(which mvn) -version I attached it. I don't see the Cygwin warning message

Bad Thread Prev links in list web archive

Hi! The Thread Prev link in the mail list web archive does not work in some cases. Example: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-03/msg01033.html Click Thread Next. (shows next message in thread) Click Thread Next. (shows next message in thread) Click Thread Prev. (shows the prev message) Click

Re: MS-DOS path warning with maven

On 10 May 2010 22:28, Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:11:33PM +0200, David Bala??ic wrote: On 10 May 2010 20:52, Jeremy Bopp jer...@bopp.net wrote: What's the output when you run the following? $ sh -x $(which mvn) -version I

Re: Bad Thread Prev links in list web archive

On 11 May 2010 14:23, Nellis, Kenneth kenneth.nel...@acs-inc.com wrote: From: David Balažic Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 05:09 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Bad Thread Prev links in list web archive Hi! The Thread Prev link in the mail list web archive does not work in some cases

MS-DOS path warning with maven

Hi! I have cygwin 1.7.5 (up to date as of now) on Windows XP Pro SP3 and maven v 2.2.1. When I start mvn from a shell (I use mintty running bash): i get a warning: cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: F:\winsux\prg\apache-maven-2.2.1/boot/ Preferred POSIX equivalent is:

Re: MS-DOS path warning with maven

On 10 May 2010 16:44, Jeremy Bopp jer...@bopp.net wrote: On 5/10/2010 4:21 AM, David Balažic wrote: Hi! I have cygwin 1.7.5 (up to date as of now) on Windows XP Pro SP3 and maven v 2.2.1. When I start mvn from a shell (I use mintty running bash): i get a warning: cygwin warning:   MS

Re: MS-DOS path warning with maven

On 10 May 2010 20:52, Jeremy Bopp jer...@bopp.net wrote: What's the output when you run the following? $ sh -x $(which mvn) -version I attached it. Also the output of cygcheck -s -v -r cygcheck.out Regards, David cygcheck.out Description: Binary data outwhich Description: Binary data --

Re: MS-DOS path warning with maven

On 10 May 2010 20:52, Jeremy Bopp jer...@bopp.net wrote: The mvn script also sources /etc/mavenrc and ~/.mavenrc files if they exist, so it's possible that what you're seeing is the result of something running in one of them.  I noticed that the path in the I don't have these two files. David

setup.exe download has no Content-Length header

Hi! When downloading http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe with Firefox, the server sends no Content-Length header, so the download manager can not show a percentage progress. Here are the headers captured with the Live HTTP Headers plugin: http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe GET /setup.exe HTTP/1.1

Re: mintty - char encoding problems

Hi! I have again LANG=SL in minTTY. I also see LANG=SL in cmd.exe. No idea where it came from. Info: Regional: standards and formats: Slovenian; Location: United States; Languages (kbd): English I'll post more as I discover things. Regards, David -- Problem reports:

Re: mintty - char encoding problems

On 21 February 2010 07:10, Andy Koppe andy.ko...@gmail.com wrote: David Balažic: I'm puzzled by that, because the standards and formats setting shouldn't have any effect on LANG, at least as far as mintty and Cygwin are concerned. Any idea how it might have got set to SL? As I already

Re: mintty - char encoding problems

On 20 February 2010 13:23, Andy Koppe andy.ko...@gmail.com wrote: David Balažic: A mismatch of Cygwin's charset and mintty's charset, probably. What versions of Cygwin and mintty are you using? What are the values of LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG? Is anything set in the Charset (or Codepage

mintty - char encoding problems

Hi! I have few days old setup of cygwin on WinXP. I also installed mintty. I worked fine on one user account, which is a member of the Administrators group. Today I started mintty under another, not admin, user, and got this: »./.bashrc« - »/home/work//.bashrc« »./.bash_profile« -

Re: mintty - char encoding problems

On 19 February 2010 21:00, Andy Koppe andy.ko...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 February 2010 19:39, David Balažic: Hi! I have few days old setup of cygwin on WinXP. I also installed mintty. I worked fine on one user account, which is a member of the Administrators group. Today I started mintty

Re: mintty - char encoding problems

On 20 February 2010 00:08, David Balažic xerc...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 February 2010 21:00, Andy Koppe andy.ko...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 February 2010 19:39, David Balažic: Hi! I have few days old setup of cygwin on WinXP. I also installed mintty. I worked fine on one user account, which

Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

On 3 February 2010 13:46, Dave Korn dave.korn.cyg...@googlemail.com wrote: On 03/02/2010 08:16, Morten Kjærulff wrote: Hi, I tried downloading http://www.cygwin.com//setup.exe (note 2 //), and got 2.680. http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe is still 2.674 for me.  You found a clever way to trick

Parallel use of v1.7.1 and v1.5.x ?

Hi! I already have the old version (v1.5.25) of cygwin installed and I wonder if is it safe (supported) to run v1.7.1 at the same time ? So I can evaluate v1.7.1 and eventually remove the other. I know the FAQ says multiple setups ov v1.7. are possible, but it does not mentiob v1.5. Regards,

Error during upgrade/X11 install

Hi! I had a base cygwin installation* on WinXP-pro-SP2. Then I downloaded the latest setup.exe, selected xorg-x11-base and clicked NEXT... During install I got an error dialog : sh.exe - Unable To Locate Component This application has failed to start because cygwin1.dll was not found.