Re: new git update fails with fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output

2024-05-27 Thread David Dyck via Cygwin
Thank you for your ideas! I have made no changes but can't reproduce the issue today both with a very short path of /usr/bin and the original path I tried with VPN off or on I would be happy to try a few other experiments - but I don't even need the workaround of reverting to an older git $ whic

new git update fails with fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output

2024-05-25 Thread David Dyck via Cygwin
I upgraded to the most recent git and I get the following error ( stable2.45.1-1x86_648597 KiB2024-05-25 18:58 ) $ git clone -v https://github.com/lxml/lxml.git Cloning into 'lxml'... POST git-upload-pack (175 bytes) POST git-upload-pack (gzip 8652 to 4281 bytes) remote: Enumerating objects: 3393

Re: many cygwin shells/tools (tcsh, fish, bash, and zsh) crashing STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

2021-08-11 Thread David Dyck via Cygwin
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 10:10 PM Mark Geisert wrote: > > Hi David, > > David Dyck via Cygwin wrote: > > First, thanks for digging further into this. > > > > I'm guessing that I am missing some of the developer pieces that > > assisted you in deducing from

Re: many cygwin shells/tools (tcsh, fish, bash, and zsh) crashing STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

2021-08-11 Thread David Dyck via Cygwin
First, thanks for digging further into this. I'm guessing that I am missing some of the developer pieces that assisted you in deducing from On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 10:28 PM Mark Geisert wrote: > > Replying to myself, ahem... > > Mark Geisert wrote: > > You could try downgrading ncurses via Cy

Re: many cygwin shells/tools (tcsh, fish, bash, and zsh) crashing STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

2021-08-10 Thread David Dyck via Cygwin
On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 12:50 PM Mark Geisert wrote: > > > You could try downgrading ncurses via Cygwin setup. Best case: things work. Best case achieved Ran setup this is what it said it would do Uninstall libncursesw10 6.1-1.20190727 (automatically added) Uninstall ncurses 6.1-1.20190727 (a

Re: many cygwin shells/tools (tcsh, fish, bash, and zsh) crashing STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

2021-08-10 Thread David Dyck via Cygwin
On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 10:56 AM Brian Inglis wrote: > Apparently that Windows Version is for the Windows 11 Preview. > That appears to be an alpha quality product, from bug fix announcements. > I didn't find anything much useful from MS or articles only features. > You might want to reach out fo

Re: many cygwin shells/tools (tcsh, fish, bash, and zsh) crashing STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

2021-08-09 Thread David Dyck via Cygwin
On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 10:04 PM Brian Inglis wrote: > It's a known problem that after Windows updates, especially Insider, > quarterly, or biannually e.g. [20]20H2 [20]2009, it's often advisable to > rerun Cygwin Setup and allow packages to be upgraded in case patches are > made for new releases,

Re: many cygwin shells/tools (tcsh, fish, bash, and zsh) crashing STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

2021-08-09 Thread David Dyck via Cygwin
On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 10:08 PM Takashi Yano wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Aug 2021 21:36:15 -0700 > David Dyck wrote: > > I've had it running for many years, but recently upgraded to windows 10 > > c:\cygwin64\bin>ver > > > > Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22000.120] > > This does not seem to be a versio

Re: misterious GIT failure (SOLVED)

2021-01-17 Thread David Dyck via Cygwin
On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 1:08 PM matthew patton via Cygwin wrote: > I haven't run into a scenario yet where 'readlink' doesn't work. > Here's a unrelated example where symbolic links don't work the same as on unix/linux ( not sure this is a readlink issue ) When I try to write through /proc

Re: ag 2 <(echo 2) gets assertion "p >= path" failed: .. /cygwin-3.1.7 ... /cygwin/path.cc", line 3065, function: int symlink_info::check

2020-09-08 Thread David Dyck via Cygwin
/6/2020 3:47 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > >>>> On 9/6/2020 2:43 PM, David Dyck via Cygwin wrote: > >>>>> This command triggers an assertion failure > >>>>>"ag" is from the_silver_searcher > >>>>> > >>>>

Re: ag 2 <(echo 2) gets assertion "p >= path" failed: .. /cygwin-3.1.7 ... /cygwin/path.cc", line 3065, function: int symlink_info::check

2020-09-06 Thread David Dyck via Cygwin
On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 12:07 PM Eliot Moss wrote: > > On 9/6/2020 2:43 PM, David Dyck via Cygwin wrote: > > This command triggers an assertion failure > >"ag" is from the_silver_searcher > > > > $ ag 2 <(echo 2) > > assertion "p >= path