On Thursday, September 05, 2013 at 4:28 AM, Warren Young wrote:
I purposefully said and licensing though, because the Windows license
swamps the hardware costs.
It can be true about the SSD and RAM costs but it's not the same kind of
sandbox too (Wine vs VM). But about the licensing costs I
On 04/09/2013 7:09 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 03:26:10PM -0600, Warren Young wrote:
This bug could well be Wine's, rather than Cygwin's.
Wine can always play the It's not documented to work that way card but
the bottom line is still that it is not a platform that we
Am I missing something, or is there a reason one would want to run a Linux
emulator under a Windows emulator on Linux?
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 03:36:46PM +, Jim Garrison wrote:
Am I missing something, or is there a reason one would want to run a
Linux emulator under a Windows emulator on Linux?
That is the question I've been asking for years. Someone always has an
answer but I'm never been convinced that it
On 9/4/2013 09:36, Jim Garrison wrote:
Am I missing something, or is there a reason one would want to run a
Linux emulator under a Windows emulator on Linux?
For myself, it is occasionally nice to have a Cygwin sandbox environment
to play with when I'm on one of my Macs, away from a Windows
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Warren Young wrote:
On 9/4/2013 09:36, Jim Garrison wrote:
Am I missing something, or is there a reason one would want to run a
Linux emulator under a Windows emulator on Linux?
For myself, it is occasionally nice to have a Cygwin sandbox environment to
play
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 03:26:10PM -0600, Warren Young wrote:
This bug could well be Wine's, rather than Cygwin's.
Wine can always play the It's not documented to work that way card but
the bottom line is still that it is not a platform that we are interested
in devoting time to.
cgf
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On 9/4/2013 15:54, Earnie Boyd wrote:
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Warren Young wrote:
Wine is
cheaper than a VM in terms of hardware requirements and licensing.
You must have some very expensive hardware.
I figure a VM costs me $25-50 in RAM and SSD space. Because it's not a
full OS,
Howdy,
I recently noticed the 64-bit cygwin installer crashes under wine.
After further debugging, it appears that the issue is that cygwin is
misaligning the stack, causing a crash. I've copy/pasted the analysis
below:
Hello folks,
confirming.
Reminded me of bug 27680 (violation of the
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 10:08:44PM -0700, Austin English wrote:
I recently noticed the 64-bit cygwin installer crashes under wine.
After further debugging, it appears that the issue is that cygwin is
misaligning the stack, causing a crash. I've copy/pasted the analysis
below:
Hello folks,
Salut,
for some reason I have tried to add some programs on an existing 1.5.25
cygwin installation using the legacy setup available under
http://www.cygwin.com/setup-legacy.exe on a very old Win98 2nd Edition
4.10. A machine. Unfortunately, the installer crashes shortly after
launching
Hello,
I am trying to install openssh, setup crashes
I identify all prerequisites. I install them one by one.
The problem cames libssp0 : setup crashes without any info
Please find here attached the result of cygcheck -s -v -r cygcheck.out
any help or advises welcome.
Thanks
Phil
Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote:
During Cygwin Setup noticed system crash, while setup screen displayed
something like:
Running preremove script libusb-win32
Attempting to isolate the problem I told setup to keep the current version
of libusb-win32 and setup installed everything else
On 07/09/2009, Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote:
3. Who drove Igor Peshansky away? (So we may lynch him and bring Igor back.)
That would be me but I won't tell you my name or where to find me...
Oh rats! Looks like I'm going to have to go hide with Igor.
But wait, where's Igor?... Now I'm really
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 07/09/2009, Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote:
3. Who drove Igor Peshansky away? (So we may lynch him and bring Igor
back.)
That would be me but I won't tell you my name or where to find me...
Oh rats! Looks like I'm going to have to go hide with Igor.
But wait,
At 00:08 2009-07-10 +0100, you wrote:
During Cygwin Setup noticed system crash, while setup screen displayed
something like:
Running preremove script libusb-win32
Attempting to isolate the problem I told setup to keep the current version
of libusb-win32 and setup installed everything
At 02:37 2009-07-10 +0200, you wrote:
At 00:08 2009-07-10 +0100, you wrote:
During Cygwin Setup noticed system crash, while setup screen displayed
something like:
Running preremove script libusb-win32
Attempting to isolate the problem I told setup to keep the current version
of
I had a setup.ini from ftp://ftp.kr.freebsd.org/pub/cygwin dated 15 Oct 2004
which for some
reason has a bogus size and md5 for xorg-x11-fenc-6.8.1.0-2.tar.bz2 and
xorg-x11-fnts-
6.8.1.0-3.tar.bz2. At that time I didn't attempt to install any X11.
I have recently been using
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:28:31PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote:
If nothing works, however, you can do the following:
1. Download release/X11/xorg-x11-fnts/xorg-x11-fnts-6.8.1.0-3.tar.bz2 from
some mirror (I use mirrors.kernel.org with good results).
2. cd / tar xjf
David Rothenberger wrote:
On 1/10/2006 10:00 PM, David Rothenberger wrote:
On 1/10/2006 8:28 PM, Igor Peshansky wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, David Rothenberger wrote:
Any ideas how to fix this?
Here's the backtrace. I haven't had a chance to do any debugging yet,
though.
#0 0x5f01265c in
On 1/11/2006 3:14 AM, Dave Korn wrote:
David Rothenberger wrote:
On 1/10/2006 10:00 PM, David Rothenberger wrote:
On 1/10/2006 8:28 PM, Igor Peshansky wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, David Rothenberger wrote:
Any ideas how to fix this?
Here's the backtrace. I haven't had a chance to do any
On 11 Jan 2006 at 11:14, Dave Korn wrote:
This is that same old bogus-size-check-failure-throwing-uncaught-exception
problem, I think.
It's generally worked-around by deleting the package from your downloaded
packages dir and trying again.
As I said last week, in
Message-ID: [EMAIL
Setup is crashing for me (Windows unexpected error window) when I try
to reinstall xorg-x11-fnts.
Why would I try that? Well, I was upgrading a computer and wanted to
install some experimental packages. So, I clicked on Exp. I didn't want
to install the X experimental packages. Rather than
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, David Rothenberger wrote:
Setup is crashing for me (Windows unexpected error window) when I try
to reinstall xorg-x11-fnts.
Tsk, tsk, tsk. Which setup version? Which OS? Which version of
xorg-x11-fnts are you trying to reinstall? Which mirror are you using?
Are you
On 1/10/2006 8:28 PM, Igor Peshansky wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, David Rothenberger wrote:
Setup is crashing for me (Windows unexpected error window) when I try
to reinstall xorg-x11-fnts.
Tsk, tsk, tsk. Which setup version? Which OS? Which version of
xorg-x11-fnts are you trying to
On 1/10/2006 10:00 PM, David Rothenberger wrote:
On 1/10/2006 8:28 PM, Igor Peshansky wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, David Rothenberger wrote:
Any ideas how to fix this?
It would be best if we found why setup doesn't work for you (whatever it
does, it shouldn't crash). It could be triggered by
hello:
In my cygwin installation the xserver stopped working. So I was trying to
reinstall the entire package. The installation proceeds till it comes to the
X11/defautl bitmap package. I notices at this point it leaks memory and
eventually crashes.
anybody has any clues?
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hello:
In my cygwin installation the xserver stopped working. So I was trying to
reinstall the entire package. The installation proceeds till it comes to the
X11/defautl bitmap package. I notices at this point it leaks memory and
eventually crashes.
anybody
Hello,
I am trying to install cygwin on win2k+sp4+...
... + latest patch.
I am using the current cygwin setup.exe
in two steps, first download to local directory
d:\cygkit then install from local directory to d:\cygwin
My win2k is in C:, D: is a NTFS partition with 1,6 GB
of free
Have you got setup.ini as well as setup.exe in d:\cygkit\?
You'll need it.
Fergus
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Have you got setup.ini as well as setup.exe in d:\cygkit\?
You'll need it.
Yes, I have it... but
setup.exe 2.427 crashes again.
I think that the problem may be a corrupted package
because setup did not complete the MD5 checking.
Now I have just deleted xorg-x11-bin
and it
a crash in setup occurs at install.cc:657 in function
md5_one():
void md5_one (const packagesource source)
io_stream *thefile = io_stream::open
(source.Cached (), rb);
the class String constructor String::String (const
char *acString) at String++.cc:46
is passed a null argument acString,
i want to compile setup 2.415-1 so i can debug it,
since it crashes nearly every time i use it.
make wants a file RECTWrapper.h, which is missing from
the distribution.
where should i find it?
if g++ -DPACKAGE_NAME=\\ -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\\
-DPACKAGE_VERSION=\\ -DPACKA
GE_STRING=\\
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 11:20, james pentland wrote:
i want to compile setup 2.415-1 so i can debug it,
since it crashes nearly every time i use it.
make wants a file RECTWrapper.h, which is missing from
the distribution.
where should i find it?
You can download it from the setup-snapshot
Setup.exe version 2.416
Setup fails almost always to install from my local
cygwin archive.
in each case the crash occurs during the install step
checking MD5 for _update-info-dir-00221-1
this is the first procedure after the Select Packages
screen.
the crash occurs in these cases:
1) check
At 02:17 PM 1/2/2004, james pentland you wrote:
Setup.exe version 2.416
Setup fails almost always to install from my local
cygwin archive.
in each case the crash occurs during the install step
checking MD5 for _update-info-dir-00221-1
this is the first procedure after the Select Packages
think you need this
setup.ini. That is my guess. I never did an install without it.
- Joaquin
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Wilson
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 6:42 AM
To: Cygwin List
Subject: Re: setup crashes
I am using setup version 2.416. The problem is when I try to install
certain packages (all from my local directory), the installer just
crashes.
The packages that have caused this crash include perl, python, and
XFree86-base.
Does anyone have any experience with this?
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Matthew Wilson wrote:
I am using setup version 2.416. The problem is when I try to install
certain packages (all from my local directory), the installer just
crashes.
The packages that have caused this crash include perl, python, and
XFree86-base.
IIRC, these are all
Hi -
I have cygwin installed OK on my windows XP machine. I installed from a local
directory after running wget to grab everything I thought I would need. I
want to add perl to my cygwin environment, so I ran setup.exe again, watched
all the checksums go by, then selected perl in the package
At 06:09 PM 12/11/2003, Matthew Wilson you wrote:
Hi -
I have cygwin installed OK on my windows XP machine. I installed from a local
directory after running wget to grab everything I thought I would need. I
want to add perl to my cygwin environment, so I ran setup.exe again, watched
all the
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 05:40:49PM -0500, Larry Hall wrote:
I expect it would be helpful to know what version of setup you're running.
Sorry - I should have mentioned that. I am running the most recent
version, whatever that is. I reran the wget script to grab everything
off the mirrors before
Stumpe, Robert wrote:
it`s my first time using cygwin;
at first i found an older installer (v2.249.2.5) and some packages on a
drive
in our lan; so i tried it with the old one installer and it works...
after using cygwin i recognized, that a compiler is missing and
so i downloaded hardly the
it`s my first time using cygwin;
at first i found an older installer (v2.249.2.5) and some packages on a
drive
in our lan; so i tried it with the old one installer and it works...
after using cygwin i recognized, that a compiler is missing and
so i downloaded hardly the whole packages and store it
after i delete the folder gcc(with gcc-package) the installer works right.
now i have a running cygwin but without gcc :-(
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Robert Collins wrote:
Max, I suggest making clean, then makeing with 'CXXFLAGS=-g -O0.
Then, the call stack may have more detail.
Anyway, as I can't reprodiuce this, I'm limited to throwing peanuts :}.
Unfortunately, I can't persuade the -O0 version to crash at all.
This looks like a long
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From: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: setup crashes - backtrace
Robert Collins wrote:
Max, I suggest making clean, then makeing with 'CXXFLAGS=-g -O0
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:
Here is the Dr. MinGW output for the at-startup crash being mentioned on
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
setup-2.340.2.3.debug.exe caused an Access Violation at location 78403330
Reading from location 78403330.
Registers:
eax=0077 ebx=0022f930
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Vince Hoffman wrote:
If this is usefull (unlikely as i'm no programmer but hey ;)
from gdb with the snapshot i got.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /tmp/setup-2.340.2.3.exe
warning: LOG: 2 Starting cygwin install, version 2.340.2.3
warning: LOG: 2 Current Directory:
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 23:44, Max Bowsher wrote:
Robert Collins wrote:
Max, I suggest making clean, then makeing with 'CXXFLAGS=-g -O0.
Then, the call stack may have more detail.
Anyway, as I can't reprodiuce this, I'm limited to throwing peanuts :}.
Unfortunately, I can't persuade
Here is the Dr. MinGW output for the at-startup crash being mentioned on
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
setup-2.340.2.3.debug.exe caused an Access Violation at location 78403330
Reading from location 78403330.
Registers:
eax=0077 ebx=0022f930 ecx=77f51b2b edx=004961bc esi=0022fe70
edi=0022fe10
Max Bowsher wrote:
Here is the Dr. MinGW output for the at-startup crash being mentioned on
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
setup-2.340.2.3.debug.exe caused an Access Violation at location 78403330
Reading from location 78403330.
Registers:
eax=0077 ebx=0022f930 ecx=77f51b2b edx=004961bc esi=0022fe70
Max Bowsher wrote:
Manu wrote:
I've patched and rebuilt.
I have now: Can't open (null) for reading: No such file
This occurs in install.cc, line 173:
---
/* install one source at a given prefix. */
static int
install_one_source (packagemeta pkgm, packagesource source,
String
Manu wrote:
Max Bowsher wrote:
Would you be able to try setup-2.322 (current HEAD)? We think we've
fixed this.
It's available at http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/ if it isn't
convenient to build it yourself.
I tried Download from Internet, Install from local directory,
then misc
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:
Manu wrote:
I've patched and rebuilt.
I have now: Can't open (null) for reading: No such file
This occurs in install.cc, line 173:
Max wrote:
Umm. This bug is known to exist, but we don't know how to reproduce
it.
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:
Call stack:
00406816 SETUP.EXE:00406816 compress_gz::destroy()
compress_gz.cc:472 ...
free (outbuf);
if (original)
delete original;
}
Interesting indeed. Something very weird is happening, if a non-null pointer
if causing a
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
Now i see something really interesting. The patch the I wanted to be
backported to 200206, seems to be applied incorrectly to HEAD. I think
this is the real cause of the problem.
Actually this patch was never applied correctly to cvs. Here is my
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:
Actually this patch was never applied correctly to cvs. Here is my
original post with the correct patch:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-07/msg00049/compress_gz.cc.pat
ch
Looks like a botched application of the patch.
I don't know
Pavel Tsekov wrote:
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:
Actually this patch was never applied correctly to cvs. Here is my
original post with the correct patch:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-07/msg00049/compress_gz.cc.pat
ch
Looks like a botched application of the
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 06:05, Max Bowsher wrote:
Pavel Tsekov wrote:
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
Now i see something really interesting. The patch the I wanted to be
backported to 200206, seems to be applied incorrectly to HEAD. I
think
this is the real cause of the
Manu wrote:
Anyway, I tried to build the CVS sources, but setup doesn't link:
linking setup.exe
[...]
c:/Dev/Sources/Cygwin-Setup/build/libgetopt++/src/OptionSet.cc:76:
undefined reference to `getopt_long'
c:/Dev/Sources/Cygwin-Setup/build/libgetopt++/src/OptionSet.cc:91:
undefined
Manu wrote:
After a few editing in the Makefiles, (I don't have much time :)
See my other reply for how to avoid needing to do this.
I've built setup.exe from CVS sources, with debug symbols.
Dr. MinGW gives an interesting clue:
SETUP.EXE caused an Access Violation at location
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:
Call stack:
00406816 SETUP.EXE:00406816 compress_gz::destroy()
compress_gz.cc:472 ...
free (outbuf);
if (original)
delete original;
}
Interesting indeed. Something very weird is happening, if a non-null pointer
if causing a
Manu wrote:
After a few editing in the Makefiles, (I don't have much time :)
I've built setup.exe from CVS sources, with debug symbols.
Please try this patch (against current CVS):
Index: compress_gz.cc
===
RCS file:
Why have you modified the patch ?
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:
After a few editing in the Makefiles, (I don't have much time :)
I've built setup.exe from CVS sources, with debug symbols.
Please try this patch (against current CVS):
Index: compress_gz.cc
Pavel Tsekov wrote:
Why have you modified the patch ?
So that it applies cleanly against setup HEAD.
Your original patch contains 2 hunks:
1) remove some code
2) add it back later in the function
Hunk 2 has been comitted to cvs HEAD, but Hunk 1 has not.
Max.
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On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:
Pavel Tsekov wrote:
Why have you modified the patch ?
So that it applies cleanly against setup HEAD.
Your original patch contains 2 hunks:
1) remove some code
2) add it back later in the function
Hunk 2 has been comitted to cvs HEAD, but Hunk 1
Max Bowsher wrote:
Manu wrote:
Anyway, I tried to build the CVS sources, but setup doesn't link:
[...]
I have done ./libgetopt++/bootstrap.sh, then,
./configure -C --enable-dependencies --disable-shared \
--build=i386-pc-mingw32 'CC=gcc -g' 'CXX=g++ -g' \
--enable-maintainer-mode
Manu wrote:
Ok, I'll try again. Though, note that I built the sources with MinGW
and its build environment, not with Cygwin.
(My old Cygwin install is out of date :)
If it works, great. If not, you're on your own.
Also, could you send the output of 'find' run from your local package
Max Bowsher wrote:
[...]
Also, could you send the output of 'find' run from your local package
directory? (as an attachment)
cf find.txt. (build.sh and compress.diff are not in CVS)
I meant the one with all the tarballs and setup.ini, but never mind, since
the bug has gone away.
Manu wrote:
I've patched and rebuilt.
I have now: Can't open (null) for reading: No such file
This occurs in install.cc, line 173:
---
/* install one source at a given prefix. */
static int
install_one_source (packagemeta pkgm, packagesource source,
String const prefixURL, String
Max Bowsher wrote:
Manu wrote:
I've patched and rebuilt.
I have now: Can't open (null) for reading: No such file
This occurs in install.cc, line 173:
---
/* install one source at a given prefix. */
static int
install_one_source (packagemeta pkgm, packagesource source,
Cygwin's setup.exe crashes when installing from a local directory.
I'm running Win98.
Manu.
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SETUP.EXE caused an Access Violation at location 78011726 in module MSVCRT.DLL Reading
from
location 009dfffe.
Registers:
eax= ebx=009e000e ecx=0003c09d edx=0002 esi=009dfffe
Heap32First
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Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: Cygwin setup crashes
Max Bowsher wrote:
Manu wrote:
Cygwin's setup.exe crashes when installing from a local directory
Max Bowsher wrote:
Manu wrote:
Cygwin's setup.exe crashes when installing from a local directory.
I'm running Win98.
Odd. What is your net connection like? Can I email you a debug build of
setup.exe to try? (1.26MB zip, or 1.07MB .bz2)
I have a slow RTC connection unfortunately.
Anyway,
Robert Collins wrote:
Nicholas, check your yahoo account, I emailed you there hours ago.
Thank you for the stack dump it will likely help. Where on the screen
did you click - beside the 'all' category / on a specific package?
Rob
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From: Nicholas Wourms
Robert,
When running setup-2.259.2.4 for the first time on Windows 98SE/ME/2K,
setup will page fault when the user cycles the install type in chooser
from Default to Install. It produces no log file, so I can't really
provide any more information than this report. I have verified this on
-2.259.2.4]: On first install, setup crashes
when user cycles chooser
Robert,
When running setup-2.259.2.4 for the first time on Windows
98SE/ME/2K,
setup will page fault when the user cycles the install type
in chooser
from Default to Install. It produces no log file, so I
can't
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