RE: Setup reports "http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/" no longer supported

2020-07-18 Thread Matt Seitz
> From: Cygwin On Behalf Of Brian Inglis > > On 2020-07-18 19:09, Matt Seitz wrote: > > When I ran Setup today to get the latest Cygwin, Setup reported an error: > > > > Warning: One or more mirrors you have selected is/are not on the list of > official Cygwin

Setup reports "http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/" no longer supported

2020-07-18 Thread Matt Seitz
When I ran Setup today to get the latest Cygwin, Setup reported an error: Warning: One or more mirrors you have selected is/are not on the list of official Cygwin mirrors any more. It/They may be out of date or missing some packages. cygcheck.out Description: cygcheck.out -- Problem

XWin Server: no XDG Menu, no right-click menu

2017-08-17 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
I am having two problems when I click the "XWin Server" item in the Windows "Start Menu" 1.The "Cygwin X/Server" icon appears in the notification area.But if I right click the notification icon, no menu appears. 2.The "X Applications Menu" (XDG Menu) icon does not appear in the notification

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.9.1-1

2017-03-01 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Personally, I would invoke a variation of Linus's attitude to breaking user space apps: the distribution should not break existing user's scripts, even if they are not following "the rules". If you want to speed up the scripts distributed by Cygwin, then I would suggest modifying those

git gui won't run: error: git-gui died of signal 11

2016-01-28 Thread Matt Seitz
When I try to run "git gui" I get the following error: Matt@hp /cygdrive/c/Users/Matt $ git gui error: git-gui died of signal 11 Log files attached. Sincerely, Matt Seitz cygcheck.out Description: cygcheck.out wish8.5.exe.stackdump Description: wish8.5.exe.stackdump -- Probl

RE: chere Bash Prompt Here window closes immediately

2015-12-01 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
>From: Dave Kilroy [mailto:kilr...@googlemail.com] >>On 23/10/2015 16:16, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: >> When I right click a folder in Windows Explorer and select "Bash >> Prompt Here", a window opens briefly and then closes immediately. > I suspect this

RE: git gui: assertion "font != NULL" failed

2015-10-23 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
> From: Jon Turney [mailto:jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk] > Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 7:54 > > The dependency chain is git-gui -> gitk -> font-adobe-dpi75 > > It doesn't look like the fonts in xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 are available to > fontconfig, so I've changed the dependency of gitk to

chere Bash Prompt Here window closes immediately

2015-10-23 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
When I right click a folder in Windows Explorer and select "Bash Prompt Here", a window opens briefly and then closes immediately. If I select "Applications -> Xterm" from the Cygwin/X Server tray icon, XTerm opens fine. Cygcheck and Xwin logs attached. Chere -lr output below.

git gui: assertion "font != NULL" failed

2015-10-16 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
A few days ago, I ran Setup to update my currently installed package, including my git packages. Since then, whenever I run git gui, I get the following error: $ git gui assertion "font != NULL" failed: file

RE: Cygwin ssh and Windows authentication

2015-07-20 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
From: Andrey Repin http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.sshd-in-domain Any suggestions if you can't get your domain admin to create a generic cyg_server account for you? I suspect some people in corporate environments may have trouble getting domain admins to create a generic cyg_server

RE: xwin Exit menu item doesn't work

2015-03-12 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Matt Seitz (matseitz) From: Jon TURNEY If this is easy for you to reproduce, could you show me the logfile produced on reproduction, after starting XWin with the '-logverbose 3' option? Thanks for getting

RE: xwin Exit menu item doesn't work

2015-03-12 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
From: Jon TURNEY If this is easy for you to reproduce, could you show me the logfile produced on reproduction, after starting XWin with the '-logverbose 3' option? Thanks for getting back to me. I was unable to reproduce the issue this morning, with or without the -logverbose 3 setting.

xwin Exit menu item doesn't work

2015-03-10 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Steps to reproduce: -Right click XWin notification tray icon -Left click Exit... Expected results: XWin notification tray icon disappears and process ends Actual results: No change, XWin continues to run cygcheck.out Description: cygcheck.out XWin.8.log Description: XWin.8.log -- Problem

RE: Problem with xterm-301-1

2014-02-27 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
From: Thomas Dickey [mailto:dic...@his.com] On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 06:45:00PM +, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: From: Ola Strömfors [mailto:ola.stromf...@gmail.com] After updating from 291-1 to 301-1 xterm starts /bin/sh instead of my shell specified in /etc/passwd

RE: Problem with xterm-301-1

2014-02-20 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
From: Ola Strömfors [mailto:ola.stromf...@gmail.com] After updating from 291-1 to 301-1 xterm starts /bin/sh instead of my shell specified in /etc/passwd or in the SHELL environment variable. The workaround I have found is to create /etc/shells with a list of permitted shells, e.g. From

Re: aspell 0.60.6.1-1 does not install any dictionaries by default (RE: git gui 1.7.9-1: spell checking is unavailable error message)

2012-11-08 Thread Matt Seitz
From: Andrey Repin From: Matt Seitz https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494084 Does it make sense for Cygwin to follow Fedora's lead, and install aspell-en by default when aspell is installed? No, it makes sense to report this issue to Git maintaners. OK, I can do that. However

Re: aspell 0.60.6.1-1 does not install any dictionaries by default (RE: git gui 1.7.9-1: spell checking is unavailable error message)

2012-11-08 Thread Matt Seitz
From: Matt Seitz I looked through setup.log. I see that something triggered aspell to be installed on Nov. 5: 2012/11/05 06:48:59 Adding required dependency aspell: Selecting version 0.60.6.1-1 for installation. 2012/11/05 06:48:59 Adding required dependency libaspell15: Selecting version

Re: aspell 0.60.6.1-1 does not install any dictionaries by default (RE: git gui 1.7.9-1: spell checking is unavailable error message)

2012-11-08 Thread Matt Seitz
From: Matt Seitz From: Matt Seitz I looked through setup.log. I see that something triggered aspell to be installed on Nov. 5: What's the best way for me to determine which packaged triggered adding the required dependency aspell? I'm suspecting the problem has something to do

Re: aspell 0.60.6.1-1 does not install any dictionaries by default (RE: git gui 1.7.9-1: spell checking is unavailable error message)

2012-11-08 Thread Matt Seitz
From: Andrey Repin So it seems like the options are: 1. Change git-gui and other aspell based applications to suppress their error message when the default dictionary is specified and no dictionary is present. Specified where? Sorry, I wasn't clear. The git-gui program is just

RE: git gui 1.7.9-1: spell checking is unavailable error message

2012-11-07 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
On Behalf Of Yaakov (Cygwin/X) en_US is the default, but if you chose another dictionary in the Options dialog, you would need that aspell-* package instead. There is even a none option there. So it's hard to say that git-gui really needs aspell-en when it's up to the user as to which

RE: git gui 1.7.9-1: spell checking is unavailable error message

2012-11-07 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
P.S. sorry about the line wrapping. Microsoft Outlook is not cooperating with me...

Re: git gui 1.7.9-1: spell checking is unavailable error message

2012-11-07 Thread Matt Seitz
From: Matt Seitz (matseitz) Any idea what caused the git-gui error message to start appearing after I ran setup.exe on Nov. 5? I've been running git-gui 1.7.9-1 since February, and I haven't changed my git-gui options recently. Git-gui was working fine with no error messages on Nov. 2. I

Re: git gui 1.7.9-1: spell checking is unavailable error message)

2012-11-07 Thread Matt Seitz
From: Andrey Repin The main question is how would you resolve it. You can disable spell checking, or install relevant dictionary, as suggested earlier. Well, I first wanted to try to get to the root cause of what triggered the problem. -- Problem reports:

aspell 0.60.6.1-1 does not install any dictionaries by default (RE: git gui 1.7.9-1: spell checking is unavailable error message)

2012-11-07 Thread Matt Seitz
Updated subject line to reflect the root cause. -Original Message- From: Matt Seitz Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 5:57 PM To: cygwin Subject: Re: git gui 1.7.9-1: spell checking is unavailable error message From: Matt Seitz (matseitz) Any idea what caused the git-gui error

RE: XTerm icon updated? Re: Updated: xterm-283-1

2012-10-18 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
From: Thomas Dickey I did consider providing a special resource value that would suppress the xterm-specific icon (such as none or default), but decided to see what type of feedback I'd get first. I like having a specific xterm icon in the taskbar to make it clear which X application is

XTerm icon updated? Re: Updated: xterm-283-1

2012-10-15 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Did this update change the XTerm icon that is displayed in the Windows task bar? Previously, when I launched the XWin Server, I would see the x.org logo (a black X with an orange ring) in the task bar as the icon for the XTerm window. Today, I see the XTerm icon for the XTerm window: a red X

RE: Perl 5.14.2 seems to expect gcc-4

2012-08-01 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Nikolai Weibull wrote: Cygwin updated perl to 5.14.2 on my system and now I can’t compile XML::LibXML. It seems that c:\lib\perl5\5.14\i686-cygwin-threads-64int\Config.pm expects cc to be gcc-4. Gcc-4 doesn’t exist yet, it seems. What’s going on

RE: possible to run XWin as windows service?

2012-07-26 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
From: Paul Maier I would like to start XWin automatically on Windows startup (Windows user login). I couldn't find any hint in the manual. How about just adding the XWin Server shortcut to the Startup program group? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

RE: BLODA nominee: Seagate GoFlex Home file server

2012-07-06 Thread Matt Seitz
From: Andrey Repin testparm -sv | grep dos would be interesting to see, but please send it off-list. I think it'll be fine to share these results. I couldn't find testparm: -bash-3.2$ rpm -ql samba-common | grep testparm /usr/bin/testparm /usr/share/man/man1/testparm.1.gz -bash-3.2$

RE: BLODA nominee: Seagate GoFlex Home file server

2012-07-06 Thread Matt Seitz
From: Andrey Repin [mailto:anrdae...@freemail.ru] would be interesting to see, but please send it off-list. Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 06.07.2012, 05:29 Andrey, I'm getting a bounce message when I try sending e'mail to anrdae...@freemail.ru. -- Problem reports:

RE: BLODA nominee: Seagate GoFlex Home file server

2012-07-05 Thread Matt Seitz
From: Andrey Repin Check mount output, or fdisk -l if your disks partitioned using MBR. (With GPT it might be a bit tricky...) -bash-3.2$ ./fdisk -l -bash-3.2$ mount output: rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) ubi0:rootfs on / type ubifs (rw) /proc on /proc type proc (rw) /sys on /sys type sysfs

RE: Seagate GoFlex Home server causes setup.exe build to fail, cannot run /bin/sh cfgaux/config.sub

2012-07-04 Thread Matt Seitz
into it. Sincerely, Matt Seitz

RE: Seagate GoFlex Home server causes setup.exe build to fail, cannot run /bin/sh cfgaux/config.sub

2012-07-04 Thread Matt Seitz
It displays an ACL, but I can't seem to add any entries. $ /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo /cygdrive/c Device Type: 7 Characteristics: 20 Volume Name: OS Serial Number : 2398715354 Max Filenamelength : 255 Filesystemname : NTFS Flags : 3e700ff

RE: Seagate GoFlex Home server causes setup.exe build to fail, cannot run /bin/sh cfgaux/config.sub

2012-07-04 Thread Matt Seitz
Officially, I don't think there's a way to modify the file system. It's designed to be an appliance. I've contacted Seagate support to see what they say. That said, I've just found out how to get SSH access into the server and am poking around now. I downloaded their GPL source earlier and

BLODA nominee: Seagate GoFlex Home file server

2012-07-04 Thread Matt Seitz
FYI: The Seagate GoFlex Home file server does not support setting FAT file flags (read-only, system, etc.). As a result, Cygwin cannot create symbolic links on these servers. Sincerely, Matt Seitz -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http

RE: BLODA nominee: Seagate GoFlex Home file server

2012-07-04 Thread Matt Seitz
try modifying the smb.conf file and see if that fixes the issue. Sincerely, Matt Seitz -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

RE: Map uid/gid of SMB share to local account?

2012-06-15 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
On Behalf Of Ryan Johnson `mkpasswd` and `mkpasswd -l -U0-2' produce the same output (neither includes the SMB user); the drive is mapped in Windows as z: and I can also access it directly from the cygwin prompt. What is the output is you run: mkpasswd -l samba-server-hostname -U

RE: git-gui: remote - fetch from fails, fetch-pack: unable to fork off index-pack

2012-06-15 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
I decided to try using the CLI git fetch command instead. That worked fine. Since then, I have performed other fetch operations using git-gui without any more errors. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

git-gui: remote - fetch from fails, fetch-pack: unable to fork off index-pack

2012-06-14 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
I recently upgraded to a new laptop. After upgrading, I copied some git repositories from my old laptop to my new laptop. I then installed Cygwin on my new laptop. I was able to use git-gui to commit changes into 2 local repositories. However, when I then tried using git-gui to fetch changes

RE: Is the Latest Release of Cygwin supported on Windows Server 8/2012

2012-05-22 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
What is a better way I can give context (and credit) when I am responding to a message, without implying that I expect a reply from the original author? I've been a Usenet user since 1988, and I've never heard of the convention of quoting implies request for reply. Replies from the original

64-bit Cygwin packages (was RE: Is the Latest Release of Cygwin supported on Windows Server 8/2012)

2012-05-22 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
From: Cygwin-L On Behalf Of Warren Young I would say that the vast majority of the packages in the Cygwin distribution could not reasonably make use of 64-bit data spaces. However, one of your arguments in this thread cuts both ways: the fact that there are a few packages that reasonably

RE: 64-bit Cygwin packages (was RE: Is the Latest Release of Cygwin supported on Windows Server 8/2012)

2012-05-22 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
From: Cygwin-L: On Behalf Of marco atzeri Until we work and deploy a 64bit cygwin1.dll the idea to build any 64 bit cygwin program is pure academic and not very useful. If you want to propose patches for 64 bit cygwin cygwin-developers is the right mailing list. Sorry if I wasn't clear.

Re: Is the Latest Release of Cygwin supported on Windows Server 8/2012

2012-05-21 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Andrew DeFaria and...@defaria.com wrote in message news:jpec46$b4v$1...@dough.gmane.org... On 5/21/2012 1:48 PM, Warren Young wrote: On 5/21/2012 11:34 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Consider a 32-bit executable that is 4 GB in size. Do you know of one 32-bit executable that is 4 GB in size?

RE: Is the Latest Release of Cygwin supported on Windows Server 8/2012

2012-05-21 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Ah, I didn't realize some people interpret quoting a post as expecting a response from the author of the post. When I quote from someone else's post, I do it for the purpose of giving the context of my response. I'm not necessarily expecting a response from the author of the previous post. --

RE: Can't access 'some' SMB network drives from ssh or cron

2012-05-18 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
From: Andrey Repin Greetings, Nick Lowe! Is SMB encrypted in this case? You need to make some serious configuration tweaking to make it NOT encrypted. Are you referring to the authentication part of the SESSION_SETUP? The only part of SMB that remember seeing encrypted are the

RE: Cygwin Commands

2012-05-18 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
From: m...@kalani.com [mailto:m...@kalani.com] When I enter: admin@mypc ~ $cd admin@mypc ~ $ The Cygwin/POSIX cd command is different from the Windows cd command. Cygwin/POSIX cd without arguments: change the current directory to the user's home directory Windows cd without

RE: Start sshd service manually instead of automatically

2012-04-04 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
From: Corinna Vinschen Use the Services MMC-SnapIn, or use the sc command in an elevated shell: $ sc config sshd start= demand Thanks, will do.

Start sshd service manually instead of automatically

2012-04-03 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
What is the best way to change the sshd service to Manual start if it is already installed using Automatic start? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

RE: Recent upgrade to wish leads to a problem

2012-03-02 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
From: Robert Miles Does it always require xinit, or only sometimes? Sometimes. If only sometimes, why should it always be installed even for computers where there is no need for it? It should be always be installed if the benefits of always installing it outweigh the benefits of not

RE: Recent upgrade to wish leads to a problem

2012-03-02 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
From: Christopher Faylor For the record, I don't think Yaakov, Corinna, or I are really interested in spending our time adding some sort of suggestion mechanism to setup.exe. This would have ramifications both for setup.exe, for the script which updates setup.ini, and for the genini

RE: Recent upgrade to wish leads to a problem

2012-03-02 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
From: Yaakov (Cygwin/X) I haven't seen any questions that I haven't already answered (although it would help if your mail client was capable of preserving a thread). Sorry about that. Hopefully I've cleared up the threading problem now. Please let me know if you are still seeing a

RE: Recent upgrade to wish leads to a problem

2012-03-02 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
From: Achim Gratz [mailto:strom...@nexgo.de] I do and FTR: I don't want the cygwin Xorg server to be a dependency to all programs that might use X because that would pull in a lot of packages that I have no use for on most systems. Right, that would be a disadvantage of making xinit a

RE: New package: openjpeg-1.5.0-1

2012-03-02 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
From: Luke Kendall [mailto:luke.kend...@cisra.canon.com.au] I'm no expert, but I thought any JPEG 2000 implementation required use of patented technologies. Do the implementers make some statement about the patent situation for openjpeg? Does this help?

Re: Recent upgrade to wish leads to a problem

2012-03-01 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Using X requires user intervention to start an X server first. No amount of automatic dependencies will change this, and therefore I don't expect that the number of questions would change one iota. You don't think that Setup telling the user package xyz requires

Re: Recent upgrade to wish leads to a problem

2012-03-01 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Christopher Faylor wrote: In the meantime, if people are piling on to suggest this because they think it will cause someone to add xinit as a dependency to something please be assured that this will not happen. OK, what would cause someone to add xinit as a dependency to something? --

Re: Recent upgrade to wish leads to a problem

2012-03-01 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Matt Seitz (matseitz) Christopher Faylor wrote: In the meantime, if people are piling on to suggest this because they think it will cause someone to add xinit as a dependency to something please be assured that this will not happen. OK, what would cause someone to add xinit as a dependency

Re: 1.7.10/1.7.11: .Net programs started from a cygwin console may fail.

2012-03-01 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Maybe it's better if the code tests the permissions first, along these lines: Thanks. I would feel better with a solution that doesn't change my permissions if they don't really need to be changed. Here's another thought: is the problem only with the /home directory

Re: Recent upgrade to wish leads to a problem

2012-03-01 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Christopher Faylor wrote: Yaakov posted the rationale. You responded to it. Additional messages insisting how much you want this are really pretty pointless. Sorry, I don't mean to be a pest. I'll wait and see if Yaakov replies to my latest questions. -- Problem reports:

Re: 1.7.10/1.7.11: .Net programs started from a cygwin console may fail.

2012-03-01 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Corinna Vinschen wrote news: On Mar 1 10:16, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: Here's another thought: is the problem only with the /home directory that Cygwin setup creates (ex: /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home)? If so, would it be possible to only modify that original /home directory

Re: 1.7.10/1.7.11: .Net programs started from a cygwin console may fail.

2012-02-29 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Corinna Vinschen wrote: David, instead of setting tmp/temp, What about adding the following line to /etc/profile? setfacl -m d:g::r-x,d:o:r-x /home /tmp /usr/tmp /var/log /var/run /var/tmp 2/dev/null Will that cause problems if I have: $ mount | grep home C:/Documents and Settings on

Re: Recent upgrade to wish leads to a problem

2012-02-29 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Christopher Faylor wrote: The only thing that apparently needs addressing is that you read the list and comprehend what's going on. I wish we could address that by making more people do that. :-) Would it help to add xinit to the requirements for tcl-tk and other packages that now require

Re: gitk fails to start after updating cygwin

2012-02-27 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Remember that using X requires some level of manual intervention, namely that you have to *start* the server and set DISPLAY before actually using it. So installing xorg-server as a dependency isn't going to prevent these questions one bit. Good point. Would

Re: gitk fails to start after updating cygwin

2012-02-24 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: xorg-server is not specified as a runtime dependency of libX11 or libxcb for several reasons: Should xorg-server be specified as a runtime dependency of gitk? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: gitk fails to start after updating cygwin

2012-02-24 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 24 11:26, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: Should xorg-server be specified as a runtime dependency of gitk? The X server is no hard requirement. Consider: $ DISPLAY=my_linux_box:0 gitk True. But would the benefit (helping new users) outweigh the cost

Re: gitk fails to start after updating cygwin

2012-02-24 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Nobody that doesn't need or want it has to install the X-Server. If one uses gitk though, one has now moved into the category of need/want the X-Server if one wasn't already in that category. ;-) Well, they certainly will need/want AN X-Server. But I thought

Re: gitk fix for set uicolor SystemButtonFace

2012-02-24 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Earnie Boyd wrote: While this resolves an immediate issue you should determine the fix for platform determination in the upstream source so that the correct file is created in the first place. Yes, I have also suggested exactly that on the upstream mailing list:

gitk fix for set uicolor SystemButtonFace

2012-02-22 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Eric Blake (cygwin) wrote: This release should cater to the fact that tcl is now X-based. Before reporting any problems with gitk or git-gui, first check that you are running an X server. Also, gitk will complain if your ~/.gitk has a line 'set uicolor SystemButtonFace'; there's nothing I

Re: gitk fails to start after updating cygwin

2012-02-10 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Arnon Moscona forwardmosc...@gmail.com wrote in message news:CAN0dh0hhiKyPKizU90upoqSWRcKGvAJmqXcDD=embmda34a...@mail.gmail.com ... I never needed an X server before, and gitk displayed fine up until now. So why should I need to run an X server now? See:

Re: Cygwin.dll version in bug reports

2012-02-09 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 05:17:18PM -0800, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: Today I sent a couple of bug reports. I based my Subject on the Good examples given at: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Since all the good examples had a cygwin1.dll version at the front, I

Re: 1.7.10: git gui reports cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: C:\cygwin\lib\git-core\git-gui

2012-02-08 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Eric Blake wrote: I'm working on packaging a new git release, which should squelch this warning. Thanks, I appreciate your quick response. I will look forward to your fix. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Cygwin.dll version in bug reports

2012-02-08 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Christopher Faylor wrote in message news:20120209005328.gb23...@ednor.casa.cgf.cx... Same thing in 1.7.9. Please lets not just put 1.7.10 in front of every bug report. What is the proper procedure? Today I sent a couple of bug reports. I based my Subject on the Good examples given at:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [SECURITY] Updated: {apr1,libapr1,libapr1-devel}-1.4.5-1

2011-09-22 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
David Rothenberger daver...@acm.org wrote in message news:announce.4e7a7e56.8010...@acm.org... apr1 has been updated to the latest upstream release. It includes a fix for CVE-2011-1928. Does this update introduce a dependence on the file and libserf packages? When I run setup.exe and view the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: base-files-4.0-4

2011-03-16 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
David Sastre d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote in message news:20110314203139.ga9...@jethro.local.lan... On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:42:03AM -0700, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: In the future, would you make available a list of changes that does not require first installing the package? I like

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: base-files-4.0-4

2011-03-14 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
David Sastre d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote in message news:announce.20110312162817.gb6...@jethro.local.lan... A detailed list of bugfixes and changes in this release can be found in the ChangeLog included in the package. In the future, would you make available a list of changes that does

Re: skipping file `...', as it was replaced while being copied

2011-01-07 Thread Matt Seitz
Would either of the following help? -collect a network capture using Wildshark while running both the Cygwin cp command and the Windows Explorer copy operation (or a simple Windows cmd cp command). -use Microsoft's Process Monitor to collect a Win32 trace while running both the Cygwin cp

Re: 1.7.7: Open BASH Shell Here goes to wrong location

2010-11-29 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Roe, Kevin L. wrote: I know Windows explorer is supposed to pass the location to minty, so why do I need to jump through these hoops? I'm curious. Why are you editing the registry by hand instead of using chere? http://code.google.com/p/mintty/wiki/Tips#Creating_a_folder_context_menu

base-cygwin 3.0-1 release notes

2010-11-24 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Where may I find a description of the changes in base-cygwin 3.0-1? Setup is reporting that there base-cygwin 3.0-1 is now available, but I haven't been able to find a release announcement on the mailing lists. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: WG: Windows Environment Variables

2010-11-24 Thread Matt Seitz
Is the following useful? http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-08/msg00246.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Source repository for Cygwin's version of git

2008-08-29 Thread Matt Seitz
Is there a source repository for Cygwin's version of git that I could access? I wanted to try some modifications, and I thought it might be easier if I could use a source control tool to track any changes in the official Cygwin version. Sincerely, Matt Seitz -- Unsubscribe info: http

.gitk CR-LF line ending triggers git warning

2008-08-27 Thread Matt Seitz
is using Windows style CR-LF iine termination, whem .bashrc, etc., use UNIX style CR line termination. Sincerely, Matt Seitz cygcheck.out Description: 639313269-cygcheck.out -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

RE: Updated: git-1.5.5.1-1

2008-04-24 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
When compiled out of the box, the upstream git maintainers cater to older cygwin releases, and intentionally disable certain features that have been reported on their mailing list, even though they work with the latest cygwin. Therefore, this build turns those features back on. What is

Re: -11: Problem at 1st start when cygwin.bat is run by Nullsoft-Installer

2008-04-10 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... It's nice that people have found other uses for cygwin1.dll and the packages which go into the distribution found at http://cygwin.com/ but I think it is unrealistic to expect that people here will be cheerfully

Setup command-line argument support

2008-03-31 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
, not that we want people to try using. But in the FAQ, I see an entry documenting the command-line arguments for setup.exe (http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.cli). -- Matt Seitz Manager, File System Virtualization Cisco Systems, Inc. .:|:.:|:.

RE: mkpasswd -l -d completed after 5 days

2008-03-06 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
-utils.html#mkpasswd and http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkgroup for more details. -- Matt Seitz Manager, File System Virtualization Cisco Systems, Inc. .:|:.:|:. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: tar --one-file-system accesses remote file systems

2008-02-13 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Larry Hall (Cygwin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: This problem and a proposed solution was mentioned in an earlier e'mail (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1998-09/msg00839.html). Is there a known solution to this issue? You

RE: tar --one-file-system accesses remote file systems

2008-02-13 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: This problem and a proposed solution was mentioned in an earlier e'mail (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1998-09/msg00839.html). Ah, yes, the mounted CIFS share is reported as a FAT file

tar --one-file-system accesses remote file systems

2008-02-12 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
). Is there a known solution to this issue? -- Matt Seitz Manager, File System Virtualization Cisco Systems, Inc. .:|:.:|:. cygcheck.out Description: cygcheck.out -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2008-02-07 Thread Matt Seitz
Dave Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 07 February 2008 00:22, Matt Seitz wrote: Dave Korn wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I did?! It was email when *I* last saw it! Sorry for any confusion. I'm using the GMane mail to nntp gateway to read

Re: Creating user in Documents and Settings on all networked machines

2008-02-06 Thread Matt Seitz
bootleg86 bootleg86 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Would it be possible to create a user folder in Documents and Settings even if I have not logged on to the machine It depends on what you mean by not logged on to the machine: -Do you mean ...not logged on to the

Re: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2008-02-06 Thread Matt Seitz
Dave Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Oops, pardon. I thought I had posted this yesterday but now I see it's just lying around my drafts folder. My win32 T: drive is a netapp share (CIFS with NFS perms) and /win/t is a mountpoint to it (system, binmode,

sshd message: Could not write ident string

2007-09-28 Thread Matt Seitz \(matseitz\)
; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: sshd: PID 5396: Could not write ident string to [IP address removed]. -- Matt Seitz Manager, File System Virtualization Cisco Systems, Inc. .:|:.:|:. cygcheck.out Description: cygcheck.out -- Unsubscribe info

RE: Ls POSIX style slink output

2007-09-20 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
suggestion, how about using forward slashes instead of backwards slashes (C:/windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts) in the base-files postinstall script? That would allow pasting the ls -l ouput to cd, without using the riskier /cygdrive prefix. -- Matt Seitz Manager, File System Virtualization Cisco Systems

RE: Ls POSIX style slink output

2007-09-20 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
though they're stored on disk as Win32 paths. Good point. I'll look forward to the new release, and just use your suggested workaround for now. Thank you again for your help. -- Matt Seitz Manager, File System Virtualization Cisco Systems, Inc. .:|:.:|:. -- Unsubscribe info: http

Ls POSIX style slink output

2007-09-19 Thread Matt Seitz \(matseitz\)
if ls -l displayed a POSIX style path (/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/drivers/etc/hosts). -- Matt Seitz Manager, File System Virtualization Cisco Systems, Inc. .:|:.:|:. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

git: Tralining whitespace error during commit

2007-08-09 Thread Matt Seitz \(matseitz\)
-s uspicious-patch-lines/: To solve the problem, you need to edit .git/hooks/pre-commit and comment out the following lines: if (/\s$/) { bad_line(trailing whitespace, $_); } Is this the best solution? -- Matt Seitz Manager, File System Virtualization Cisco Systems, Inc

Re: git: Training whitespace error during commit

2007-08-09 Thread Matt Seitz \(matseitz\)
any follow-up questions or comments, should I post them back here on the cygwin list? -- Matt Seitz Manager, File System Virtualization Cisco Systems, Inc. .:|:.:|:. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

RE: Non-trusted domain user causes mkpasswd and mkgroup to fail

2007-07-23 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
#mkpasswd and http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-sids Thanks, I will try that. -- Matt Seitz Manager, File System Virtualization Cisco Systems, Inc. .:|:.:|:. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

RE: Non-trusted domain user causes mkpasswd and mkgroup to fail

2007-07-18 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
From: DePriest, Jason R. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 7/13/07, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: runas /netonly /user:machine2\userB followed by mkpasswd -d machine2 -u userB: fails If the server is stand alone, wouldn't mkpasswd -l be more appropriate than mkpasswd -d? That requires

RE: Non-trusted domain user causes mkpasswd and mkgroup to fail

2007-07-13 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
. But then mkpasswd -d machine -u user still didn't work. Using the same process for a domain user (runas /netonly /user:domain\user, mkpasswd -d domain -u user) does work. -- Matt Seitz Manager, File System Virtualization Cisco Systems, Inc. .:|:.:|:. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

RE: Non-trusted domain user causes mkpasswd and mkgroup to fail

2007-07-13 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
/user:domain1\userA followed by mkpasswd -d domain1 -u userA: works runas /netonly /user:machine2\userB followed by mkpasswd -d machine2 -u userB: fails -- Matt Seitz Manager, File System Virtualization Cisco Systems, Inc. .:|:.:|:. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

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