Re: Sharing my packages for CYGWIN

Carlo, Since you are successfully creating Cygwin packages, one thing that would be very helpful is a detailed set of instructions for cygport to create a Cygwin package from source. There are instructions posted on the Cygwin website and other info about cygport, but I have not found a

Ansible listed as orphaned

Is there a recommended general procedure so that users could update orphaned packages with a reasonable chance of success? E.g., for packages that need compiling, it's download the source, extract it, then make and make install. Not sure about other packages like Ansible which are written in

Re: Retry / Continue dialog appearing frequently in setup for dll updates

> "ssh-pageant.sh" -k > gpgconf --kill gpg-agent dirmngr scdaemon > sh -c "for svc in $( cygrunsrv --list | grep -v cygserver ) cygserver; do net > stop "^"$svc^""; done" > > Restarting after setup is goin gthe other way around, except GPG services > (they are restarted by themselves as needed).

Re: Retry / Continue dialog appearing frequently in setup for dll updates

Hi Ken, Yes, I attempt to shut down all cygwin processes as we all have done over the past many years of enjoying Cygwin. I opened a terminal as Administrator to shut down cygsshd and exim as shown below but it did not work. What could be wrong here? I am surprised that cygrunsrv was unable to

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Test: coreutils 9.0 (TEST)

; On 7/19/2022 6:34 AM, Keith Christian wrote: > > > The installed version of coreutils is 8.32-1. > > Correct, latest release. > > > I see coreutils-9.0-1.tar.gz referenced in setup.ini, but > > Incorrect, there's a newer test version 9.1-1 > > > cor

Retry / Continue dialog appearing frequently in setup for dll updates

On two different Windows 10 machines, I see the Retry/Continue dialog on numerous cygwin .dll files. These are the only cygwin processes extant while setup is running: == C:\Users\keith>tasklist /v | findstr /c:ssh sshd.exe

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Test: coreutils 9.0 (TEST)

ntioned above. More suggestions are appreciated. On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 8:48 PM René Berber wrote: > > On 7/18/2022 8:50 PM, Keith Christian wrote: > > > I'd like to test coreutils but cannot find the docs for how to install > > a test version. > > Sorry, but I don't

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Test: coreutils 9.0 (TEST)

I'd like to test coreutils but cannot find the docs for how to install a test version. Sorry, but I don't see anything in setup.exe that would facilitate installing a test version, seems I recall that test versions were available to install via setup. On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 9:43 PM Cygwin

Re: Compiling gnu diction on Cygwin

Brian, Csaba, I was able to complete the compile with your assistance. Brian: I'll experiment with your suggestions of: #include and remove casts (should not normally be required or used in C) as well. Csaba: Adding the -Wall -Wpedantic -Wextra fixed the issue, thanks. This will help a great

Compiling gnu diction on Cygwin

Hi Cygwin fans, Version info: Windows 10:10.0.19043 N/A Build 19043 Cygwin: CYGWIN_NT-10.0 3.3.4(0.341/5/3) 2022-01-31 19:35 x86_64 Cygwin I successfully compiled diction and style from this tar file, but with errors: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diction/diction-1.11.tar.gz Diction and style both

setup 2.917 fails trying to update to cygwin-3.3.4-2

Windows 10 Pro, 10.0.19042 N/A Build 19042 Cygwin Setup 2.9.17 Trying to update to cygwin 3.3.4-2. I routinely download updates with setup, then re-run setup and choose "install from local directory," which has always worked. I don't think the two step procedure is at fault, though. Setup abruptly

Re: [EXTERNAL] Updated cygwin this morning, mintty window flashes briefly and quits

Anton, Interesting problems these days. Thank you again! -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: [EXTERNAL] Updated cygwin this morning, mintty window flashes briefly and quits

Anton, There were two cygserver instances listed, one had a PID and the other one had N/A for the PID. I terminated both of them and now I can launch Cygwin64 term. Are there any configs I should check for cygserver to make sure there aren't two of them running? I've never seen this problem

Updated cygwin this morning, mintty window flashes briefly and quits

Downloaded the latest setup-x64.exe from the Cygwin website, ran a normal Cygwin update this morning on my Windows 10 system, rebooted after updates. Click the Cygwin64 Terminal icon on the desktop, opens briefly then closes. Suggested troubleshooting steps? Thanks, everyone. -- Problem

Re: How to start KDE in Cygwin/X vs LXDE

After a bit of research, I discovered that "Plasma" is the "KDE Desktop" I was looking for, and there are these 16 choices. By running #16, "XWin Server" there is an additional X icon with a green interion in the "hidden icons" list, which has an extensive menu of X programs to run. 1

How to start KDE in Cygwin/X vs LXDE

When I click the XWin Server icon on the task bar, Cygwin/X starts up just fine, and so does the LXDE desktop. In the Start Menu, Cygwin/X offers several desktop environments including KDE-Openbox, but choosing that shows the KDE "gear" icon and then the LXDE desktop appears instead. The

Re: Help with the prunepaths option with findutils updatedb locate

Brian, Thanks very much for the prunepaths regexes, the /proc/filesystems output, mount command, and info and man command lines, and the suggestions for better posting. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Help with the prunepaths option with findutils updatedb locate

Fellow Cygwin fans, I'm trying to keep the many directories with "OneDrive" in the pathname out of the locatedb file, as I don't care to see them in locate's output, nor bloat the locatedb file. I'd appreciate any insight into the prunepaths option for the test case below, (Line 10,) and how to

readshortcut (cygutils 1.4.16) fails with buffer overflow detected on windows 10 lnk files

Hello Cygwin Folks, Getting *** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated when trying to read numerous .lnk files. Windows 10 Enterprise version is 21H1 OS Build 19043.1165 Cygwin version is 3.2.0. Any info appreciated. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: cygrunsrv + sshd + rsync = 20 times too slow -- throttled?

Ken, Thank you for the reply, this is great news! Looking forward to speedier rsyncs with Cygwin. Keith On Thu, Sep 16, 2021, 16:49 Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > On 9/16/2021 6:00 PM, Keith Christian via Cygwin wrote: > > I've been following his thread with interest

Re: cygrunsrv + sshd + rsync = 20 times too slow -- throttled?

I've been following his thread with interest both here and on the Cygwin developers list. I, too rsync between Cygwin and Linux machines. Lots of good debate showing the genius of the folks that support the cygwin infrastructure. Looks like the lively discussion on both lists has stopped. What

Re: Compiling C-Kermit 9.0.305 Alpha.02 on Cygwin

On Tue, Dec 1, 2020, 10:32 wrote: > On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 09:20:51AM -0700, Keith Christian wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 9:23 PM wrote: > > > For kicks, I got the *basic* C-Kermit to build under Linux and under > Cygwin. > > > https://github.com/gstrauss/

Re: Compiling C-Kermit 9.0.305 Alpha.02 on Cygwin

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 9:23 PM wrote: > For kicks, I got the *basic* C-Kermit to build under Linux and under Cygwin. > https://github.com/gstrauss/ckermit > The make command line options are in the commit messages. > > It is based on > http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/archive.html > C-Kermit

Re: Compiling C-Kermit 9.0.305 Alpha.02 on Cygwin

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020, 15:31 Eliot Moss wrote: > On 11/30/2020 5:17 PM, Keith Christian via Cygwin wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 2:44 PM Jeffrey Altman > > wrote: > >> I suspect building C-Kermit with SSH, OpenSSL, Kerberos v5 support is > >> going to be pr

Re: Compiling C-Kermit 9.0.305 Alpha.02 on Cygwin

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 2:44 PM Jeffrey Altman wrote: > I suspect building C-Kermit with SSH, OpenSSL, Kerberos v5 support is > going to be problematic since none of that code has been updated in more > than a decade to keep up with the latest upstream packages. I suggest > you start by trying

Compiling C-Kermit 9.0.305 Alpha.02 on Cygwin

I downloaded the .tar.gz of C-Kermit 9.0.305 Alpha.02, 19 September 2020. Web page: http://www.kermitproject.org/ckdaily.html Source download: http://www.kermitproject.org/ftp/kermit/test/tar/x.tar.gz I realize that C-Kermit has not been in the Cygwin distribution for awhile. There is no

CRON executes CRONTABS only when run from terminal as "/usr/sbin/cron &"

Cygwin people, Running with this version of Cygwin. CYGWIN_NT-10.0 DESKTOP-ASERVER 3.1.7(0.340/5/3) 2020-08-22 17:48 x86_64 Cygwin Windows info: $ /lib/csih/winProductName.exeMicrosoft Windows 10 Professional, 64-bit (build 18363) I installed using cron-config, and created the cyg_server

Character string on first line of vim is similar to +q436f+q6b75+q6b64+q6b72

This doesn't happen every time, but frequently enough with different files that I wonder if anyone else has seen it. The first line in the file being edited is #!/usr/bin/expect -f but appears this way: 1 +q436f+q6b75+q6b64+q6b72+q6b6c+q2332+q2334+q2569+q2a37+q6b31$q q 2 #

Re: "/usr/bin/tar.exe" hangs, Windows 10, CYGWIN_NT-10.0 3.0.7(0.338/5/3) 2019-04-30 18:08 x86_64

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 10:34 AM Brian Inglis wrote: > > On 2019-11-15 08:12, Keith Christian wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 7:40 AM Ken Brown wrote: > >> On 11/15/2019 9:19 AM, Keith Christian wrote: > >>> Tar in recent updates to Cygwin64 hangs. > >>

Re: "/usr/bin/tar.exe" hangs, Windows 10, CYGWIN_NT-10.0 3.0.7(0.338/5/3) 2019-04-30 18:08 x86_64

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 7:40 AM Ken Brown wrote: > > On 11/15/2019 9:19 AM, Keith Christian wrote: > > Tar in recent updates to Cygwin64 hangs. > > > > When the tar command is run with strace, it generates voluminous > > output but won't list tar file co

"/usr/bin/tar.exe" hangs, Windows 10, CYGWIN_NT-10.0 3.0.7(0.338/5/3) 2019-04-30 18:08 x86_64

Tar in recent updates to Cygwin64 hangs. When the tar command is run with strace, it generates voluminous output but won't list tar file contents or extract the tar file (or tar.gz, tar.xz, etc.) tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.29 Packaged by Cygwin (1.29-1) Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software

Re: "/usr/bin/boxes" command fails to run, Windows 10, CYGWIN_NT-10.0 3.0.7(0.338/5/3) 2019-04-30 18:08 x86_64

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 1:15 AM Jari Aalto wrote: > > On 2019-11-14 21:31, Ken Brown wrote: > > On 11/14/2019 2:32 PM, Keith Christian wrote: > > > The "boxes" command fails to run on a Cygwin64 install two weeks ago. > > > > > > echo &

Re: "/usr/bin/boxes" command fails to run, Windows 10, CYGWIN_NT-10.0 3.0.7(0.338/5/3) 2019-04-30 18:08 x86_64

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 2:32 PM Ken Brown wrote: > > On 11/14/2019 2:32 PM, Keith Christian wrote: > > The "boxes" command fails to run on a Cygwin64 install two weeks ago. > > > > echo "hello" | /usr/bin/boxes > > boxes: No such file

"/usr/bin/boxes" command fails to run, Windows 10, CYGWIN_NT-10.0 3.0.7(0.338/5/3) 2019-04-30 18:08 x86_64

The "boxes" command fails to run on a Cygwin64 install two weeks ago. uname -a CYGWIN_NT-10.0 SOMESERVER 3.0.7(0.338/5/3) 2019-04-30 18:08 x86_64 Cygwin cygcheck -c boxes Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus boxes1.0.1a-2 OK echo "hello"

Re: tar 1.29 hangs, when run with strace, it exits with "illegal instruction"

frowned upon. I see no evidence of Symantec Endpoint software, must be different AV software. On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 9:33 PM Brian Inglis wrote: > > On 2019-08-07 12:20, Keith Christian wrote: > > I am able to run "tar ft somefile.tar" successfully on a Linux > > machin

tar 1.29 hangs, when run with strace, it exits with "illegal instruction"

I am able to run "tar ft somefile.tar" successfully on a Linux machine, same tar version (1.29.) This version hangs up the terminal, does not respond to Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Z, and terminates with an illegal instruction to the screen, not reflected in the strace output. File

Re: setup.exe enhancement request, proceed on error after logging error to setup.log

other setup maintainers, and to all Cygwin maintainers for the selfless work you do. Keith On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 7:01 AM Brian Inglis wrote: > > On 2019-06-11 14:52, Keith Christian wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 12:39 PM Brian Inglis wrote: > >> On 2019-06-11 11:

Re: setup.exe enhancement request, proceed on error after logging error to setup.log

Achim Gratz wrote: > > Keith Christian writes: > >> Would the maintainers (Achim? Jon?) be willing to consider an option > >> box log errors to the setup.log file and "Skip non-fatal errors and > >> continue?" > > > > You'd first have to teac

Re: ImageMagick 'convert' program broken, error in cyggs-9.dll x86_64/release/ghostscript/libgs9/libgs9-9.27-1.tar.xz

Ken, a re-install fixed this issue, thanks for pointing out the version mismatch. On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 12:00 PM Ken Brown wrote: > > On 6/10/2019 1:16 PM, Keith Christian wrote: > > Strace shows this in a dialog box when it fails: > > The procedure entry p

Re: setup.exe enhancement request, proceed on error after logging error to setup.log

And if this option is deemed worthy of implementation, add a command line option for those who skip the GUI. Thanks again. On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 2:03 AM Henning wrote: > > On 10/06/2019 23:41, Keith Christian wrote: > > > > Would the maintainers (Achim? Jon?) be willing to

setup.exe enhancement request, proceed on error after logging error to setup.log

Today I am reinstalling Cygwin to fix a DLL package, taking awhile but worth the wait (-: (-: Setup paused with a dialog to report a missing .xz file. I saw the error a half hour later. Would the maintainers (Achim? Jon?) be willing to consider an option box log errors to the setup.log file

ImageMagick 'convert' program broken, error in cyggs-9.dll x86_64/release/ghostscript/libgs9/libgs9-9.27-1.tar.xz

Strace shows this in a dialog box when it fails: The procedure entry point uname_x could not be located in the dynamic link library C:\cygwin64\bin\cyggs-9dll. Version info: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-10.0 DESKTOP-OLN71TE 2.11.2(0.329/5/3) 2018-11-08 14:34 x86_64 Cygwin

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] ninja 1.9.0-1

Is there benchmark data available for cmake+meson+ninja vs. make? Keith On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 2:50 PM Jon Turney wrote: > > The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: > > * ninja-1.9.0-1 > > Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed. It is designed to >

Re: Setup 2.895, don't install everything, striking a balance

> Hello, > > Select "Category", you obtain a single line with "All". Unfold "All". Select > "Install" on the line of "All", and "Default" on the line of "Debug". > > That’s it. "Source" is not selected by default. Some (but very few) debuginfo > still get installed. Thanks Denis, with your

Re: Setup 2.895, don't install everything, striking a balance

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 3:05 PM Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Keith Christian! > > > Thank you for all the work you do on Cygwin and especially the > > setup.exe program. > > > I saw this warning: > > https://cygwin.com/install.html > >

Re: Setup 2.895, don't install everything, striking a balance

ALL, Sorry for the premature send. Jon, Thank you for all the work you do on Cygwin and especially the setup.exe program. I saw this warning: https://cygwin.com/install.html Q: How do I install everything? A: You do not want to do this! This will install an enormous

Setup 2.895, don't install everything, striking a balance

Jon, Thank you for all the work you do on Cygwin and especially the setup.exe program. In the past, I have always run a complete install of Cygwin because it's faster than the alternative. Is there a way to request only binaries and the needed config files without being forced to download debug

Re: setup-x86.exe v2.893 has stopped working

Jon, WindowMaker info from the last cygwin update cygcheck -cd | grep WindowMaker WindowMaker 0.95.8-2 WindowMaker-debuginfo0.95.8-2 setup-2.893-8-g2ec74b.x86.exe ran to completion without any hangs or stalls. Thanks! --

Re: setup-x86.exe v2.893 has stopped working

I ran the instructions in the previous post. Captured 15k "setup_debugging_session_kchristian.txt" file in the debugging session, hope it sheds some light on it. Thanks for the help and info, Jon. Wed Oct 03 16:26:48 pty0 (keith@someserver) /cygdrive/c/Users/keith/Downloads>gdb ./setup.exe GNU

Re: setup-x86.exe v2.893 has stopped working

Finished building setup.exe using the http://sourceware.org/git/cygwin-apps/setup.git source. 10/03/2018 07:45 AM23,423,478 setup-2.893.x86.dbg 10/03/2018 08:57 AM29,231,233 setup.exe (version 2.893-3-ge084ed (32 bit)) in the splash screen. setup.exe aborts at approximately

Re: setup-x86.exe v2.893 has stopped working

Ken and Jon, I've downloaded setup-2.893.x86.dbg referenced above. I haven't used gdb in a while but I am confident I can use it. I''ve read the page referenced at sourceware.org/git. I'm willing to build a setup-x86.exe to work with setup-2.893.x86.dbg if you can point me to the instructions

Re: setup-x86.exe v2.893 has stopped working

cyg Simple, Sorry about the top posting, I need to remember I'm in Gmail and act accordingly. There were a few Windows 7 updates recently, Ken Brown has posted debugging symbols and instructions, I'll pursue that. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: setup-x86.exe v2.893 has stopped working

the setup program itself beyond setup.log* ? On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 11:33 AM Marco Atzeri wrote: > > Am 02.10.2018 um 18:12 schrieb Keith Christian: > > When running "Install from local directory," Crash box says: A problem > > caused the program to stop working correctl

setup-x86.exe v2.893 has stopped working

When running "Install from local directory," Crash box says: A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available. Output of "/lib/csih/winProductName.exe" Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise Edition, 64-bit Service Pack 1

Re: bzip.org

Ok sorry for the noise. I should know better by now. On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 5:24 PM cyg Simple wrote: > > On 10/1/2018 4:51 PM, Keith Christian wrote: > > Author Julian Seward's Wikipedia page contains nothing out of the > > ordinary, works at Mozilla according to

Re: bzip.org

Author Julian Seward's Wikipedia page contains nothing out of the ordinary, works at Mozilla according to the Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Seward On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 3:42 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 9:17 AM, cyg Simple wrote: > > On

Re: KDE Konsole does not display the special characters

Michel, There is a "[" missing in Formats] your reply above, chedk that the file on disk is OK. If making Format] ---> [Format] doesn't work, put the old file back and see if Konsole starts using it. Also check that the read permissions and ownership on the .config/plasma-localerc file

Re: Help with C clearenv and setenv

You're welcome, Sam. Keith On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 8:22 PM, Sam Habiel wrote: > Thank you Keith for you reply; but I am actually looking for the C APIs to > manipulate the environment; esp. to clear it. > > On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 6:05 PM, Keith Christian > wrote: >

Re: Help with C clearenv and setenv

Sam, Here is a short demonstration of how to detect unset (possibly null, too?) variables in BASH. Not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for but presented for info. set -x;A_VAR="${RANDOM}";echo "1. ${A_VAR}";echo "2. ${A_VAR:?IS_NOT_SET}";unset A_VAR;set +x + set -x + A_VAR=28641 +

Re: Cygwin Statistics and curiosity

Cygwin is essential to my productivity and work flow on Windows. I seldom use X on Cygwin but it usually performs well when I do. Others' mileage may vary. On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 6:49 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > Hi, > following a unpleasant discussion about cygwin

Re: Can't open x86/release/cvs/cvs-1.11.23-2.tar.gz for reading: Unknown filename

7d4d1 depends2: bash, cygwin, libcrypt0, libgssapi_krb5_2, libkrb5_3, perl_base, zlib0 Thanks, folks. On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 9:09 AM, Keith Christian <keith1christ...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've seen this message when updating Cygwin the past few times (x86 version.) > > How to trouble

Can't open x86/release/cvs/cvs-1.11.23-2.tar.gz for reading: Unknown filename

I've seen this message when updating Cygwin the past few times (x86 version.) How to troubleshoot this, or, what else is needed by the Maintainer(s) to fix? Keith -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Add emacs build with LUCID X toolkit ?

Ken, I use Emacs infrequently, but others might start using it if an emacs-lucid build means a better performing Emacs on Cygwin. You'd have Alejandro as a happy customer (-: Keith -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Future of 32-bit distro

Brian, Yes, I install everything. Cygwin has so many great utilities. I'd like to change this to remove Gnome and KDE, and run updates from the command line with setup-x86.exe, ignoring downloading or updating Gnome and KDE. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Future of 32-bit distro (was: rebase-4.4.3-1 regression: Too many DLLs for available address space)

See my post in the other "Re: Future of 32-bit distro" thread about using setup-x86.exe to remove KDE and GNOME. Keith -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: Future of 32-bit distro

I run the 32 bit Cygwin on a 64 bit Windows 7 machine and install everything, because it has been unnecessary to waste time picking and choosing packages even though I don't use them all. I've been doing this for years and suspect many other Cygwin aficionados do the same. I asked a related

Re: Explicit dash rebaseall instructions from a CMD.EXE shell requested

Thanks, Erik, I'll try that: running rebaseall within the DASH instance and will double check that no cygwin processes are running. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Explicit dash rebaseall instructions from a CMD.EXE shell requested

Cygwin Version: Thu 01/04/2018 7:11:09.53 c:\cygwin\bin>uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW HQSWD-C009223 2.9.0(0.318/5/3) 2017-09-12 10:41 i686 Cygwin Seeing this when trying to install a Perl module: cpan[4]> install Config::IniFiles Running install for module 'Config::IniFiles' Fetching with LWP:

Re: gcc / gfortran 5.x

Yaakov, To help Hans a bit, do we know is the Wayback Machine still working (I've never used it.) Or, Hans could keep a gfortran 5.x system around, or roll back the latest Cygwin updates until he's had a chance to as you say, fix the code. -- Problem reports:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: moreutils v0.61-1

Thanks, Adam! -- 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

Re: Attention PostgreSQL maintainer

Marco, I believe lines 57 through 124 of the latest /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql.README are courtesy of the good Henry S. Thompson. Lines 129 to the end of /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql.README are those that I contributed to the cause. wc /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql.README 343

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: postgresql-9.6.6-1

Thanks, Marco! -- 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

Re: Attention PostgreSQL maintainer

You're welcome Marco, thanks for incorporating our comments. I've always found this one of the more helpful mailing lists. One small way that we users can help the very busy maintainers. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Various questions about 10.1.26-MariaDB on CYGWIN_NT-10.0 2.9.0(0.318/5/3) 2017-09-12 10:18 x86_64 Cygwin

GRANT syntax issue SOLVED: Log in to the mysql client as root: $ mysql -u root -p Enter password: MariaDB [keithdb]> use keithdb; Database changed MariaDB [keithdb]> grant usage on keithdb.* to 'keith'@'localhost' with grant option; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) Thanks to all who

Re: Various questions about 10.1.26-MariaDB on CYGWIN_NT-10.0 2.9.0(0.318/5/3) 2017-09-12 10:18 x86_64 Cygwin

On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 12:33 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkow...@cygwin.com> wrote: > On 2017-11-06 00:44, Wayne Davison wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Keith Christian wrote: >>> How can I get GNU readline back as the editor for the mysql client? >> >&g

Re: Various questions about 10.1.26-MariaDB on CYGWIN_NT-10.0 2.9.0(0.318/5/3) 2017-09-12 10:18 x86_64 Cygwin

Thanks, Wayne. This should help a great deal. Keith > > -- 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

Various questions about 10.1.26-MariaDB on CYGWIN_NT-10.0 2.9.0(0.318/5/3) 2017-09-12 10:18 x86_64 Cygwin

- - Background: - After much trial and error, I installed MariaDB and its mysql client on the latest Cygwin. $ mysql_install_db $ cd '/usr' ; /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir='/var/lib/mysql' $ mysql $ mysql -u root -p Created a 'keithdb' database as the MySQL/MariaDB 'root' user

Re: Attention PostgreSQL maintainer

Woops, I apologize for top-posting. Keith -- 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

Re: Attention PostgreSQL maintainer

Henry, Your "install as as a service" steps above are successful! kcdb=# select version(); version - PostgreSQL 9.6.5 on i686-pc-cygwin, compiled by gcc (GCC) 6.3.0, 32-bit (1 row) uname

Attention PostgreSQL maintainer

Marco, I've written a short updated quick start guide for PostgreSQL on Cygwin. It is attached, (cygwin_postgresql_9_6_5_quick_start_example.txt.) You're free to use it if you think it will be helpful for the README or elsewhere. Keith

Re: Compiling the Sqlite3 v 3.20.1 libsqlite3.x.y.dll on Cygwin

Works now. Nothing helps like being in the correct directory before running configure and make (-: (-: I see a few errors, but the small test program works OK. Cygwin version and gcc version output below for giggles and grins. Sun Sep 10 15:33:05 pty2 (KChris@machine)

Compiling the Sqlite3 v 3.20.1 libsqlite3.x.y.dll on Cygwin

What .dll should be compiled or loaded to execute a TCL program including the SQLite library as shown in this fragment, which used to work a few years ago? #!/usr/bin/tclsh load libsqlite3.8.3.dll "SQLite3" sqlite3 db1 ./tcl_interface.db puts "" puts

Re: Presence of cygwin64 elements in an existing Cygwin 32 install after updating

Achim, Thanks, I added -M: setup-x86.exe -B -c KDE -M -n -q -v Wed 08/30/2017 13:35:26.69 c:\users\keith>Starting cygwin install, version 2.881 User has backup/restore rights Current Directory: C:\Users\keith\Downloads root: C:\cygwin system Selected local directory:

Re: Presence of cygwin64 elements in an existing Cygwin 32 install after updating

Must be this? C:\Users\keith\Downloads\setup-x86.exe --help -c --remove-categoriesSpecify categories to uninstall On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Keith Christian <keith1christ...@gmail.com> wrote: > Eliot and Marco, > > /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/rebase-trigge

Re: Presence of cygwin64 elements in an existing Cygwin 32 install after updating

Eliot and Marco, /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/rebase-trigger full followed by an install of a few new packages WORKED. "dig" and "httping" and other commands now run properly, thanks! I'll try the package removal suggestion in a day or so when I have some time, thanks for that also. Is there a

Re: Presence of cygwin64 elements in an existing Cygwin 32 install after updating

Marco (and all:) I will try the rebase commands. What are the flags and options for setup-x86.exe to remove all Gnome and KDE packages? I run KDE on an adjacent Debian system and removing it and Gnome on the Windows machine is an option if there are memory issues. I install EVERYTHING when I

Re: Presence of cygwin64 elements in an existing Cygwin 32 install after updating

of these programs failing in this way? Keith On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Keith Christian <keith1christ...@gmail.com> wrote: > Updated to the testing version of cygwin1.dll, rebooted, still seeing > this dig error (updating the cygwin1.dll file may have been > superfluous.) &g

Re: setup-x86.exe link on cygwin.com page downloads version 2.881, not 2.882 as advertised

Sorry for the noise. Thanks, Marco. Keith -- 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

Re: Presence of cygwin64 elements in an existing Cygwin 32 install after updating

Updated to the testing version of cygwin1.dll, rebooted, still seeing this dig error (updating the cygwin1.dll file may have been superfluous.) /home/keith>uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW windows-machine 2.9.0(0.317/5/3) i686 Cygwin /home/keith>>dig +short -x 127.0.0.1 0 [main] dig (7444)

setup-x86.exe link on cygwin.com page downloads version 2.881, not 2.882 as advertised

I deleted the existing setup-x86.exe, verified that it was not on in the directory. Downloaded setup-x86.exe from the cygwin.com page, still shows version 2.881, not 2.882. Here is an MD5SUM and a DIR listing of what I just downloaded: Tue 08/29/2017 10:19:16.28 c:\Users\keith\Downloads>md5sum

Re: [UUASC] Networking two Linux desktops with USB

I'll mull this over. Desktop PC's with USB-A connectors. Didn't see any internet posts with info about the goodyelife USB-A cable. Hoping for USB 3.0 speed, we'll see. I have more research to do. Thanks again, EVERYONE (-: for the ideas. Keith On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 9:00 PM, Shane Tzen

Re: Presence of cygwin64 elements in an existing Cygwin 32 install after updating

Thanks, Ken. Good to know that, I included all troubleshooting info and methods that I've gleaned from the mailing list over the years. Maybe the bind-utils maintainer can offer a fix. Keith On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 8:21 AM, Ken Brown <kbr...@cornell.edu> wrote: > On 8/24/2017 9:36

Presence of cygwin64 elements in an existing Cygwin 32 install after updating

Some Cygwin programs are failing even after reboots, re-installing the faulty program, and the customary automatic rebasing (e.g. 'dig', Line 1 below) after a recent update: Some cygwin64 packages were installed (see line 17 below (even though I am running *32* bit cygwin, installed using

Re: cygwin console software

Until a few months ago, I used PuttyCyg. It worked really well, and still does, and I used it for perhaps 10 years. In the past few months, I've been using Tera Term, which has a Cygwin mode that works just like MinTTY and PuttyCyg with the few differences I've noticed: 1PuttyCyg and

Re: Debugging MariaDB Severe Crash (mysqld daemon dies)

OwN-3m-All, If no one from the Cygwin team answers here, perhaps run Cygwin setup and install the source package from Cygwin and re-compile with all debugging turned on (however that's done in MariaDB.) Only a suggestion, I'm not an expert in the recent changes to Cygwin, all of which have been

Re: Debugging MariaDB Severe Crash (mysqld daemon dies)

I'm sure you've looked over this part of the mysql website: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/debugging-server.html If not, it'd be a good place to start. I don't know particularly much about mysqld but thought someone should at least answer you. On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 5:25 AM,

strace 2.6.0 microsecond timing is not output

While testing the output of "windres" in Steven Penny's post earlier, I used strace. I don't see the microsecond timing output in the current strace version 2.6.0. (Output has no special relation to "windres.") foo$ strace -o windres.strace_${RANDOM} -t -u windres foo$ tail

Re: Cygwin 2.6.1 bash fork errors upon starting mintty

Brian, Thanks, with all Cygwin processes stopped, opening an ash.exe window via start/run, then cd /bin and running rebaseall fixed the errors present when I start mintty. Keith On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Brian Inglis <brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca> wrote: > On 2016-12-26 09:

Cygwin 2.6.1 bash fork errors upon starting mintty

I created a cygcheck -s -r -v file to attach, but sourceware dot org blocked it Updated Cygwin this morning, getting fork errors (even after rebooting, (although reboots should not matter)) when starting mintty: 0 [main] bash 6072 child_info_fork::abort: C:\cygwin\bin\cygncursesw-10.dll:

Re: Command switches to remove categories of packages from an existing Cygwin installation

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 7:41 AM, Jon Turney <jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk> wrote: > On 01/11/2016 13:04, Keith Christian wrote: >> >> On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Keith Christian wrote: >>> >>> While I use a few X11 packages, I find that I don

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