Run the xserver as a Windows Service. That fixed it for us. Didn't fix
it, but eliminated the error. ;)
Randy
David Weintraub wrote:
I've been using Cygwin/X for several years, and I never had this
problem before. However, I've recently installed Cygwin/X on my new
system, and now I notice
I've been using Cygwin/X for several years, and I never had this
problem before. However, I've recently installed Cygwin/X on my new
system, and now I notice that XWin's -silent-dup-error command line
parameter no longer seems to work.
I startup Cygwin/X by creating a Windows shortcut that runs
Thanks. That actually makes a lot more sense than running XWin
multiple times each time I want an XTerm.
Not too sure how to start xserver as a Windows service, though. It's
not already listed as a Windows service, so I assume that this is
something I have to setup. Is the process documented
OK, I've been working on this problem for several days now and I'm about
ready to give up all together. I'm really hoping someone can help me out. I
used cygwin for years on XP and now that I've moved to Vista, I can't get
anything to work.
Whenever I try to run /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.bat ,
CVSROOT:/cvs/src
Module name:src
Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-12-06 14:05:59
Modified files:
winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler_disk_file.cc
Log message:
* fhandler_disk_file.cc (fhandler_disk_file::rmdir): Fix typo.
Patches:
CVSROOT:/cvs/src
Module name:src
Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-12-06 14:06:39
Modified files:
winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog winsup.h
Log message:
* winsup.h (WINVER): Set to 0x0600 to cover Vista.
Patches:
CVSROOT:/cvs/src
Module name:src
Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-12-06 14:08:08
Modified files:
winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog
winsup/cygwin/include/sys: ioctl.h
Log message:
* include/sys/ioctl.h: Pick up termios.h, for TIOCGWINSZ.
Patches:
CVSROOT:/cvs/src
Module name:src
Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-12-06 16:33:03
Modified files:
winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler_mem.cc wincap.cc
Log message:
* fhandler_mem.cc (fhandler_dev_mem::open): Fix comment.
* wincap.cc
CVSROOT:/cvs/src
Module name:src
Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-12-06 19:44:07
Modified files:
winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog termios.cc
Log message:
* termios.cc: Change include order to accomodate change to sys/ioctl.h.
Patches:
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On Linux:
$ gcc -E - \EOF | tail -n 2
#includesys/ioctl.h
TIOCGWINSZ
EOF
# 2 stdin 2
0x5413
On cygwin, prior to this patch:
$ gcc -E - \EOF | tail -n 2
#includesys/ioctl.h
TIOCGWINSZ
EOF
# 2 stdin 2
TIOCGWINSZ
Should be safe to apply since
Yaakov S writes:
Subject says it all; it appears that libfontconfig.dll.a may have been
stripped, which (AFAIK) works for static libs but kills import libs.
Ping. This also prevents compilation of latest Xemacs beta 21.5.27.
Yaakov
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On Dec 5 22:39, Eric Blake wrote:
Is it worth the base-files maintainer providing a default .vimrc file that
gets installed alongside all the other default .*rc files for new users?
Sure! It shouldn't contain too esoteric stuff, though, just a few basic
settings like, say, autoindent,
[nothin' like resurrecting a month-old thread...]
Christopher Faylor wrote:
This is handled in dcrt0.cc:do_exit(). I'm wondering if rxvt is not
dealing with the SIGHUP that cygwin should be sending to it on
CTRL_CLOSE, though.
Well, rxvt *does* respond to SIGHUP:
$ ps -eaf # output snipped
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Dec 5 22:39, Eric Blake wrote:
Is it worth the base-files maintainer providing a default .vimrc file that
gets installed alongside all the other default .*rc files for new users?
Sure! It shouldn't contain too esoteric stuff, though, just a few basic
settings
James Bigler skrev:
I use the emacs in terminal mode (-nw) quite a bit, and I haven't be
able to figure this out.
When I run emacs in either the cmd.exe or the rxvt window I can't get
the terminal to send a C-/ character. Many other C- functions work
(like C-space in rxvt as discussed
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I'm using the following to send attachments from the cli, works fine
except for word Docs etc but zip files loose a few bytes
eg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 davidr None 161792 Dec 2 12:47 ../aaa/am4mar.doc
(RECEIVED) -rwxrwxrwx+ 1
On Dec 6 03:57, Charles Wilson wrote:
[nothin' like resurrecting a month-old thread...]
Christopher Faylor wrote:
This is handled in dcrt0.cc:do_exit(). I'm wondering if rxvt is not
dealing with the SIGHUP that cygwin should be sending to it on
CTRL_CLOSE, though.
Well, rxvt *does*
I've applied a patch to Cygwin which should workaround what appears to
be a compatibility bug in WOW64 on Vista 64. If you want details, see
the huge comment in the sources, file dcrt0.cc, get_cygwin_startup_info().
It's looking good here!
Now, I just need to get Visual Studio 2003 cl.exe to
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
From the information you've given, it sounds to me like the code is
suspect. I'd start by getting this to work as it should with portability
in mind. The fact that it works on one system/compiler/whatever is not
an indication that the code is correct.
Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote:
James Bigler skrev:
I use the emacs in terminal mode (-nw) quite a bit, and I haven't be
able to figure this out.
When I run emacs in either the cmd.exe or the rxvt window I can't get
the terminal to send a C-/ character. Many other C- functions work
(like C-space
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James Bigler skrev:
Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote:
James Bigler skrev:
I use the emacs in terminal mode (-nw) quite a bit, and I haven't be
able to figure this out.
When I run emacs in either the cmd.exe or the rxvt window I can't get
the terminal to send a C-/ character. Many other C-
Please direct me if the following question has been answered - I searched the
archives and did not find anything.
I recently converted my Windows XP box to Windows Vista. I am beyond RC1.
I have tried multiple times to install Cygwin, never with success.
In short, here is the problems I've
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Has anyone successfully installed Cygwin onto a Windows Vista box? Are
there any tips which can be provided for the less fortunate of us?
Mine is working fine now. There is an issue with 64 bit versions, which require
you to install the cygwin1.dll from the following link:
Hi,
I have just updated findutils-4.3.2-2 from findutils-4.2.27
There is the following extrange behavior when a new rxvt window is opened.
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On Dec 6 07:31, Jeremy T. Harrison wrote:
Please direct me if the following question has been answered - I searched the
archives and did not find anything.
I recently converted my Windows XP box to Windows Vista. I am beyond RC1.
I have tried multiple times to install Cygwin, never with
Not sure who to send this to, but there's a minor error in the
/etc/profile file when setting PS1 for Kornshell.
Line 99 contains several instances of the literal ^[ when it should
be an actual ESC (which is a Ctrl-[). It looks the same in VI, but
it doesn't quite work when attempting to
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes:
I've applied a patch to Cygwin which should workaround what appears to
be a compatibility bug in WOW64 on Vista 64. If you want details, see
the huge comment in the sources, file dcrt0.cc, get_cygwin_startup_info().
On Dec 6 08:14, Danny wrote:
as for that vista32 issue i was having, i let it sit around for a while, and
got this:
5 [main] zsh 5996 C:\cygwin\bin\zsh.exe: *** fatal error - unable to
remap C:\cygwin\lib\zsh\4.3.2\zsh\zutil.dll to same address as parent
(0x29) != 0x36
Danny wrote:
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes:
I've applied a patch to Cygwin which should workaround what appears to
be a compatibility bug in WOW64 on Vista 64. If you want details, see
the huge comment in the sources, file dcrt0.cc, get_cygwin_startup_info().
-Original Message-
Has anyone successfully installed Cygwin onto a Windows Vista box?
Are
there any tips which can be provided for the less fortunate of us?
Mine is working fine now. There is an issue with 64 bit versions, which
require you to install the cygwin1.dll from the following
Thanks for the tip - I will see if preloading the dll makes a
difference. I am using the 32 bit version; so this may not do anything.
It will have no effect on the 32 bit version. Do you have administrator
privileges?
It sounds like you had issues after the install. Is that correct?
Could
Hi
When I install packages compressed with bzip2, setup works fine. But
when I try to install packages compressed with gzip, it crashes. This
occurs with all compressed gzip packages like: scrollkeeper, startgnome.
All others packages of gnome are alright. I have tried to use the setup
on
On Dec 6 07:31, Jeremy T. Harrison wrote:
Please direct me if the following question has been answered - I
searched the archives and did not find anything.
I recently converted my Windows XP box to Windows Vista.? I am beyond
RC1.
I have tried multiple times to install Cygwin, never with
Ouch! Sorry, my last posting included an attachment with build products.
Here's the correct attachment; see message with same subject.
cp210x_rt.tgz
Description: application/tgz
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On 12/5/06, Nathan Moore wrote:
Cygwin is used extensively within my school's physics department,
and I'd like to set up a local mirror for packages. I assume this
entails writing a bash script which
Mark Edgar wrote:
C-/ is a key sequence, but it is not a character sequence. The
character sequence Emacs expects is the single character with octal
value 037. Almost all terminals send this character when the key
sequence C-_ is typed. Many terminals also send this sequence when
typing
On Mon 12/4/06 14:47 CST cygwin@cygwin.com wrote:
--snip
~ $ date;uname -a
Mon Dec 4 14:31:38 CST 2006
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 OurServer121 1.5.22(0.156/4/2) 2006-11-13 17:01 i686 Cygwin
~ $ printf '\377\376h\000\r\000\n\000'|file -
/dev/stdin: MPEG ADTS, layer I, v1, 192 kBits, 32
Tom Rodman wrote:
On Mon 12/4/06 14:47 CST cygwin@cygwin.com wrote:
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~ $ date;uname -a
Mon Dec 4 14:31:38 CST 2006
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 OurServer121 1.5.22(0.156/4/2) 2006-11-13 17:01 i686 Cygwin
~ $ printf '\377\376h\000\r\000\n\000'|file -
/dev/stdin: MPEG ADTS, layer I, v1,
On Dec 6 14:34, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Tom Rodman wrote:
Maybe not a new problem, but this older (flame me) cygwin version works
better:
No, not better, different. Newer versions of file happen to know
about new file types which older versions of file don't.
file-4.16 recognizes the
On 04 December 2006 14:38, fergus wrote:
Some Cygwin sessions (specifically those using find or diff, and
when the task is very great, as in say diff -rq /largedisk1
/largedisk2*) I find that hogged resources are not freed when Cygwin is
exit-ed. The egg-timer churns away on rather simple
zzapper wrote:
I'm using the following to send attachments from the cli, works fine
except for word Docs etc but zip files loose a few bytes
eg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 davidr None 161792 Dec 2 12:47 ../aaa/am4mar.doc
(RECEIVED) -rwxrwxrwx+ 1 davidr None 161792 Feb 14 2006 am4mar.doc
(SENT)
I can't get scp to transfer files between two Windows computers on a
home WLAN. A log of scp -v is attached. There are no error messages
recognizable to me, but the log correctly reports that 0 bytes were
transferred. ssh seems to be working ok, at least to log in remotely
and to run pwd
OK, I've been working on this problem for several days now and I'm about
ready to give up all together. I'm really hoping someone can help me out. I
used cygwin for years on XP and now that I've moved to Vista, I can't get
anything to work.
Whenever I try to run /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.bat , it
On 06 December 2006 03:05, tbrowder wrote:
I have upgraded my cygwin installation and now some bibaries don't execute.
The ones I've noticed so far are ssh and diff.
When I execute ssh, the binary is found on my path, and it shows as
executable, but it responds with nothing. Same thing
On 06 December 2006 17:01, R. Steve McKown wrote:
FWIW, I'm using dlopen()/dlsym() to link to the DLL. 'nm' on the
provided .lib file shows decorations on the function names, even though they
^^
are C. Perhaps the vendor didn't use
Charles D. Russell wrote:
I can't get scp to transfer files between two Windows computers on a
home WLAN.
A log of scp -v is attached. There are no error messages
recognizable to me, but the log correctly reports that 0 bytes were
transferred.
ssh seems to be working ok, at least to log
I seem to have the exact same problem as mentioned in an old message
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-01/msg00853.html
specifically I'm trying to untar the arm-elf gnutools from ecos
$ tar xjf ecoscentric-gnutools-arm-elf-1.4-2.cygwin.tar.bz2
tar: gnutools/arm-elf/arm-elf/bin/g++.exe: Cannot
Dave Korn wrote:
BTW, mixing MSVC-based code with cygwin-based is inherently unreliable and
liable to fail unpredictably. I guess the vendor isn't likely to want to
share their dll source with you so you could recompile it with gcc, but it
might not be /too/ complicated to just take a look at
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
read version foo1.out
I prefer this to the echo -n, because the latter isn't supported on
all the platforms I run on (aix, for one).
Thanks for the help. You guys rock.
Kevin
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I want to be able to run sh.exe from a dos environment (like
Start-Run or the File Explorer) and not have it pop up a console
window.
For example, if I were to type this in the Start-Run window:
c:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c c:/windows/notepad.exe
I would see two windows--one for sh.exe and
Michael J. Wheeler wrote:
OK, I've been working on this problem for several days now and I'm about
ready to give up all together. I'm really hoping someone can help me out. I
used cygwin for years on XP and now that I've moved to Vista, I can't get
anything to work.
Whenever I try to run
On 06 December 2006 23:44, Kevin Layer wrote:
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kevin, please snip raw email addys when you reply - it gets people spammed.
http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR for more.
read version foo1.out
I prefer this to the echo -n, because the latter isn't
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I want to be able to run sh.exe from a dos environment (like
Start-Run or the File Explorer) and not have it pop up a console
window.
For example, if I were to type this in the Start-Run window:
c:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c c:/windows/notepad.exe
I would see two
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According to Dave Korn on 12/6/2006 4:54 PM:
Actually, there was just /one/ more thing... I don't know if it's equally
as cross-platform as 'read', but it is defined by POSIX, and you kept on
mentioning that you can't use d2u because it's
Unfortunately, the most recent threads on vista do not seem to be related
to my problems and/or are for Vista64-bit.
As far as the snapshots, no dice there either. When I run startxwin.bat,
the X system tray icon appears, but xterm never starts. The only process
running appears to be XWin.exe
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
So there's something missing in the picture here... What does happen in
rxvt when Alt-F4 is pressed. Nothing?
rxvt-20050409-3 (e.g. the current version) behaves the same way in all
three cases:
kill -HUP pid of rxvt
alt-f4 when rxvt has the focus
click on the 'x'
This test release of rxvt is intended to correct the misbehavior
reported here:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00282.html
where using Alt-F4 or clicking the 'x' button on the rxvt window left
behind a zombie bash process.
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Last night I updated Cygwin, and I've had problems with my scripts
afterwards. I tried on the web and found some similar issues from 2004,
but with no resolutions.
I am running:
uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 davesxp 1.5.22(0.156/4/2) 2006-11-13 17:01 i686 Cygwin
I can manually use the cd command
Last night I updated Cygwin, and I've had problems with my scripts
afterwards. I looked on the web and found some similar issues from
2004, but with no resolutions.
I am running:
uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 davesxp 1.5.22(0.156/4/2) 2006-11-13 17:01 i686 Cygwin
I can manually use the cd command
* /From/: René Berber
Charles D. Russell wrote:
I can't get scp to transfer files between two Windows computers on a
home WLAN.
When you test ssh, do you get some messages after successful log in?
I think the
David Bishop wrote:
Last night I updated Cygwin, and I've had problems with my scripts
afterwards. I tried on the web and found some similar issues from 2004,
but with no resolutions.
I am running:
uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 davesxp 1.5.22(0.156/4/2) 2006-11-13 17:01 i686 Cygwin
I can
Dear All,
I am a new user of cygwin to practice the linux/unix commands in the window.
But i am unable to use the vi or vim command. I downloaded the vim-7.0.tar
file. Now what should i do as there is no exe file
Can anyone please help me?
Best regards,
Shahed
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Shahed wrote:
Dear All,
I am a new user of cygwin to practice the linux/unix commands in the
window.
But i am unable to use the vi or vim command. I downloaded the
vim-7.0.tar file. Now what should i do as there is no exe file
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According to David Bishop on 12/6/2006 9:06 PM:
I can manually use the cd command without problems, but when I try to
use it in a script, I just get:
: No such file or directory
Sounds like a case of DOS line endings on a binary mount.
On 12/6/06, Shahed wrote:
Dear All,
I am a new user of cygwin to practice the linux/unix commands in the window.
But i am unable to use the vi or vim command. I downloaded the vim-7.0.tar
file. Now what should i do as there is no exe file
Can anyone please help me?
Best regards,
Dear Jason,
I tried that, but didn't work. i have downloaded the vim-7.0.tar.bz2 file
and put it in the bin file after extracting it but still didn't work.
do you have the *.exe file for the vi / vim command?
best regards,
Shahed
You should not just download the vim tar file.
What you need
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Hi All,
I'm having a problem with Cygwin after I've upgraded to the latest
version of most of the packages. I haven't found anything about the
problem in the Net and on this mailing list, so I've decided to post
it here.
sh.exe won't start with the following error message:
The procedure entry
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