Greetings, All,
I tend to just be a lurker on the Cygwin lists, but a user of the
Cygwin Time Machine had a problem with the latest Setup version (2.893)
that made me think a little about how Setup treats URLs. I'd email Jon
Turney off list, and, after some discussion, felt it should be
I'm running cygwin 1.7.x and I've been pretty faithful with running
setup again when updates are announced.
I've noticed that setup remembers almost all the answers from the
previous run, so if you are just doing an update you should be able to
just NEXT through it.
The very last page of the
Rance Hall sent the following at Tuesday, January 05, 2010 10:13 AM
I'm running cygwin 1.7.x and I've been pretty faithful with running
setup again when updates are announced.
I've noticed that setup remembers almost all the answers from the
previous run, so if you are just doing an update you
Something odd has happened to setup-2.ini on [some/all?] mirrors.
While for each entry in setup.ini for [1.5], the sequence goes
@name
sdesc
ldesc
category
requires
version
install
source
[prev]
version
install
source
recently the sequence for each entry in setup-2.ini for [1.7] goes
@name
On Apr 27 18:36, Charles Wilson wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
The problem is that this doesn't allow a parallel installation for
now, even if setup-1.7 is working as advertised.
That's what I was trying to say.
I should add code
to the script which replaces all $OLD_CYGWINROOT path
On Apr 28 10:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Apr 27 18:36, Charles Wilson wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
The problem is that this doesn't allow a parallel installation for
now, even if setup-1.7 is working as advertised.
That's what I was trying to say.
I should add code
to the
I tried to install setup-1.7 on a system running a normal release
before. I've deleted the whole C:\cygwin dir from the disk and removed
all cygwin/cygnus related items from the registry.
But after running the new setup the mounts for /usr/bin and /usr/lib
where missing. Also there is no
Steffen Sledz wrote:
I tried to install setup-1.7 on a system running a normal release
before. I've deleted the whole C:\cygwin dir from the disk and removed
all cygwin/cygnus related items from the registry.
But after running the new setup the mounts for /usr/bin and /usr/lib
where missing.
On Apr 27 10:41, Charles Wilson wrote:
Steffen Sledz wrote:
I tried to install setup-1.7 on a system running a normal release
before. I've deleted the whole C:\cygwin dir from the disk and removed all
cygwin/cygnus related items from the registry.
But after running the new setup the mounts
On Apr 27 17:56, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Apr 27 10:41, Charles Wilson wrote:
Steffen Sledz wrote:
I tried to install setup-1.7 on a system running a normal release
before. I've deleted the whole C:\cygwin dir from the disk and removed all
cygwin/cygnus related items from the
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Nevertheless, take the scripts carefully for now. I have a nagging
feeling that my approach to fetch the old mount points from the registry
is not exactly foolproof. Something about the rootdir...
Well, if you follow Brian instructions here:
On Apr 27 15:09, Charles Wilson wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Nevertheless, take the scripts carefully for now. I have a nagging
feeling that my approach to fetch the old mount points from the registry
is not exactly foolproof. Something about the rootdir...
Well, if you follow Brian
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Apr 27 15:09, Charles Wilson wrote:
Then when you run setup-1.7.exe you don't /have/ any mounts in the registry
-- so all you'll get in /etc/fstab are the basic default mounts. [*] Later,
when setup-1.7.exe is updated -- so that we don't have to remove all the
1.5
I'm trying to install cygwin on a number of workstations and want to
make it as automated as possible.
The LAN does not have direct internet access, so I setup an internal
mirror containing only the few packages we're interested in.
I tried running setup -q --root c:\cygwin --site
/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks.
Asunto: Re: problem with setup
*cough*
just a thought... but cant you simply as administrator or some other
form of admin simply kill your cygwin isntall directory and remove the
Cygwin registry keys?
I think there would be an uninstall icon for Cygwin (i.e. I would like
I am (was) running cygwin under XP at work. It was installed a while back
by IT. Everything gets done through IT. They are primarily windows people
and they left out some important packages like man and others. So I asked
them to reinstall. I can't install the missing packages myself, they have
Amadeus W.M. wrote:
Is there a way to completely remove cygwin as if it was never there?
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all
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Warren Young wrote:
Amadeus W.M. wrote:
Is there a way to completely remove cygwin as if it was never there?
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all
Might be worth trying to delete (or move aside) '/etc/setup/bash.lst.gz'
first. If that doesn't help, you might be
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:06:52 -0700, Warren Young wrote:
Amadeus W.M. wrote:
Is there a way to completely remove cygwin as if it was never there?
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all
Thanks! That should do.
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On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:59:11 -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Warren Young wrote:
Amadeus W.M. wrote:
Is there a way to completely remove cygwin as if it was never there?
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all
Might be worth trying to delete (or move aside)
Amadeus W.M. wrote:
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:59:11 -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Warren Young wrote:
Amadeus W.M. wrote:
Is there a way to completely remove cygwin as if it was never there?
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all
Might be worth trying to delete (or
*cough*
just a thought... but cant you simply as administrator or some other
form of admin simply kill your cygwin isntall directory and remove the
Cygwin registry keys?
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Asunto: Re: problem with setup
*cough*
just a thought... but cant you simply as administrator or some other
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Cygwin registry keys?
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Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Markus Schönhaber wrote:
Don't know if this is of any help: you can set the SIDs for the user
and the user's primary group on the Samba box with pdbedit ... -U
SID -G SID ...Maybe it helps if you use the same SIDs your
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
I have a somewhat odd setup here and am having a permissions problem
with my userid and authentication.
In general I'm trying to have one home directory that is shared
between Windows and Linux. On Windows I use Cygwin. Normally this
involves
I have a somewhat odd setup here and am having a permissions problem
with my userid and authentication.
In general I'm trying to have one home directory that is shared
between Windows and Linux. On Windows I use Cygwin. Normally this
involves mounting my Windows oriented home
Eric Blake wrote:
I have a somewhat odd setup here and am having a permissions
problem with my userid and authentication.
In general I'm trying to have one home directory that is shared
between Windows and Linux. On Windows I use Cygwin. Normally this
involves mounting my Windows oriented
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Eric Blake wrote:
I have a somewhat odd setup here and am having a permissions
problem with my userid and authentication.
In general I'm trying to have one home directory that is shared
between Windows and Linux. On Windows I use Cygwin. Normally this
involves
Markus Schönhaber wrote:
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night gowns?
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Eric Blake wrote:
I have a somewhat odd setup here and am having a permissions
problem with my userid and authentication.
In general I'm trying to have one
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Markus Schönhaber wrote:
Don't know if this is of any help: you can set the SIDs for the user
and the user's primary group on the Samba box with pdbedit ... -U
SID -G SID ...Maybe it helps if you use the same SIDs your Windows
Domain account has.
OK, got the admin to do
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Markus Schönhaber wrote:
Don't know if this is of any help: you can set the SIDs for the user
and the user's primary group on the Samba box with pdbedit ... -U
SID -G SID ...Maybe it helps if you use the same SIDs your
Windows Domain account has.
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
I have a somewhat odd setup here and am having a permissions problem
with my userid and authentication.
In general I'm trying to have one home directory that is shared
between Windows and Linux. On Windows I use Cygwin. Normally this
involves mounting my Windows
I have a somewhat odd setup here and am having a permissions problem
with my userid and authentication.
In general I'm trying to have one home directory that is shared between
Windows and Linux. On Windows I use Cygwin. Normally this involves
mounting my Windows oriented home directory and
Just a follow up on this:
I finally resolved this and as everyone knew/suspected it was not an
autoconf/automake issue or at least I don't think it was unless there was
something missed in update to update to update. I actually had the same
autom4te error on 3 machines of which I either
Original Message
From: Brian Dessent
Sent: 17 June 2005 06:42
Brian Keener wrote:
The only other thing I can think of is what version of autoconf and
automake and libtool are you using. Mine are the versions that were
released when stable and devel became obsolete. But not sure
Dave Korn wrote:
I don't have any /usr/bin/autom4te-2.5x either. My Channels.pm lives
under /usr/autotool/{devel,stable}/share/Autom4te.
Sounds like you have some stray stuff going on?
You're still on the 'old' versions of autotools then apparently. The
'new' versions do away with the
Original Message
From: Brian Dessent
Sent: 17 June 2005 11:12
Dave Korn wrote:
I don't have any /usr/bin/autom4te-2.5x either. My Channels.pm lives
under /usr/autotool/{devel,stable}/share/Autom4te.
Sounds like you have some stray stuff going on?
You're still on the 'old'
Dave Korn wrote:
Guess I am, at that. And from the looks of things, I'm staying that way
for at least a little while longer. I need to be able to build setup! g
(From the 'knew you were joking, but:' department...)
I am using the new packages and had no problem running bootstrap.sh or
any
I debated asking this but I am now at a loss as to where to look next. I had a
nice working Cygwin system and could compile my own copies of the Cygwin.dll
and more for my purposes a copy of Setup.exe. I am using Win2k and have kept
my system up to date. Last Friday my system experienced
Brian Keener wrote:
$ cd /usr/develop/src/cygwin-apps/setup
/usr/develop/src/cygwin-apps/setup
$ ./bootstrap.sh
Running bootstrap.sh in libgetopt++
unknown channel $-5 at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/Channels.pm line 538
Autom4te::Channels::msg('$-5', 'configure.in:14', 'warning:
Thanks Brian for the follow up and the suggestion. As I mentioned I did just
do a clean install of cygwin and all apps to a Windows XP laptop but like a
dummy and lazy person I copied my cvs tree from the Win2k laptop. Then when I
tried to compile on the WinXP machine and I still got the
Brian Keener wrote:
The only other thing I can think of is what version of autoconf and automake
and libtool are you using. Mine are the versions that were released when
stable and devel became obsolete. But not sure that is it.
I too use the 'new' autotools:
$ cygcheck -c|grep -P
Luke Kendall wrote:
On 16 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote:
Then I'm not the only one noticing this?
No, myself and one other person here have begun noticing it.
luke
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Luke Kendall wrote:
I should also add that after a setup.exe crash at 9:38am after being
left running overnight, later attempts to install that day (with the VM
size steadily increasing, and setup.exe appearing to stick at the
stage where it is installing the zip package), that setup.log was not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote:
Guys, theres a major problem with setup.
According to the error I just got, setup is not
closing any of its files after writing them.
I finally got past xorg, and got up to update_info.
I'll rerun setup to get a cygcheck.
I can confirm
Luke Kendall wrote:
On 17 Nov, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The system starts page faulting and the number of
handles just grows and grows, and eventually setup dies
I can add this:
At the crash point, setup.exe has some 600 open handles and 2 Gb of VM.
It's
accumulated 2.5 million page faults.
Luke Kendall wrote:
On 16 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote:
Then I'm not the only one noticing this?
No, myself and one other person here have begun noticing it.
luke
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Max Bowsher wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote:
Guys, theres a major problem with setup.
According to the error I just got, setup is not
closing any of its files after writing them.
I finally got past xorg, and got up to update_info.
I'll rerun setup to get
On 17 Nov, Max Bowsher wrote:
Luke Kendall wrote:
I should also add that after a setup.exe crash at 9:38am after being
left running overnight, later attempts to install that day (with the VM
size steadily increasing, and setup.exe appearing to stick at the
stage where it is installing
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:09:26AM +1100, Luke Kendall wrote:
Sorry to be causing you such hassles. I'm hoping to get a chance to
try the latest Cygwin:
You can try the latest cygwin. Just install everything in two or
three steps.
This is not the final solution, of course, but this problem
Luke Kendall wrote:
I can confirm this. We took a snapshot of October 26th
(setup-timestamp: 1098732614), and in that version of setup,
That number you quoted identifies the version of the setup.ini datafile, not
the setup.exe program.
Sorry, how's this?
$ bunzip2 -c setup.bz2 |
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:09:26AM +1100, Luke Kendall wrote:
Sorry to be causing you such hassles. I'm hoping to get a chance to
try the latest Cygwin:
You can try the latest cygwin. Just install everything in two or
three steps.
This is not the final solution,
On 11 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote:
Guys, theres a major problem with setup.
According to the error I just got, setup is not
closing any of its files after writing them.
I finally got past xorg, and got up to update_info.
I'll rerun setup to get a cygcheck.
I can confirm this. We took
On 17 Nov, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The system starts page faulting and the number of
handles just grows and grows, and eventually setup dies
I can add this:
At the crash point, setup.exe has some 600 open handles and 2 Gb of VM. It's
accumulated 2.5 million page faults.
luke
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I should also add that after a setup.exe crash at 9:38am after being
left running overnight, later attempts to install that day (with the VM
size steadily increasing, and setup.exe appearing to stick at the
stage where it is installing the zip package), that setup.log was not
updated by the later
Luke Kendall wrote:
On 17 Nov, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The system starts page faulting and the number of
handles just grows and grows, and eventually setup dies
I can add this:
At the crash point, setup.exe has some 600 open handles and 2 Gb of VM. It's
accumulated 2.5 million
On 16 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote:
Then I'm not the only one noticing this?
No, myself and one other person here have begun noticing it.
luke
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 05:26:34PM -0600, Bobby McNulty wrote:
Guys, theres a major problem with setup.
According to the error I just got, setup is not
closing any of its files after writing them.
I finally got past xorg, and got up to update_info.
I'll rerun setup
Guys, theres a major problem with setup.
According to the error I just got, setup is not
closing any of its files after writing them.
I finally got past xorg, and got up to update_info.
I'll rerun setup to get a cygcheck.
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On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 05:26:34PM -0600, Bobby McNulty wrote:
Guys, theres a major problem with setup.
According to the error I just got, setup is not
closing any of its files after writing them.
I finally got past xorg, and got up to update_info.
I'll rerun setup to get a cygcheck.
So, does
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 05:26:34PM -0600, Bobby McNulty wrote:
Guys, theres a major problem with setup.
According to the error I just got, setup is not
closing any of its files after writing them.
I finally got past xorg, and got up to update_info.
I'll rerun setup
Hi all. I am attempting to run setup.exe, version 2.427 under Windows 2000
Professional on a Toshiba laptop. After making all the setup option
selections, the setup fails, with a dialog window saying 'setup.exe has been
terminated by Windows. You will need to restart the program'.
The first
Hi all. I am attempting to run setup.exe, version 2.427 under Windows 2000
Professional on a Toshiba laptop. After making all the setup option
selections, the setup fails, with a dialog window saying 'setup.exe has been
terminated by Windows. You will need to restart the program'.
The first
I had him send me a screenshot: Everything is normal except that the
PickPackageLines simple aren't being shown on the screen - just a gap where
they should be. The colour scheme is normal, so that's not it. The
PickCategoryLines are showing OK.
He said he would try building setup and tinkering
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