Re: Setup Error

2007-08-31 Thread ERIC HO
I did a gdb on setup and saw the following messages when uninstalling rxvt: warning: LOG: 2 Running preremove script for rxvt warning: LOG: 2 Uninstalling rxvt Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to thread 2648.0x1cc] 0x004ac7e3 in ?? () Any idea? Thanks. - Ori

Re: Full reinstall now fails with Vista STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION during postinstall

2007-08-31 Thread Jim Kleckner
Dave Korn wrote: On 29 August 2007 01:05, Jim Kleckner wrote: It could be a NOD32 issue, to judge by the trouble it's been causing elsewhere today: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-08/msg00824.html [and http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-08/msg00800.html ] Looks like you'd need to try act

Threading issue in cygwin python 2.5.1-2 ?

2007-08-31 Thread Jim Kleckner
I get an exception running a Python example that uses threads that I downloaded from the net (ASPN): http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/82965 This may just be another case of "threading doesn't work well". I'm including the test case. It fails with cygwin Python with a dia

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lftp-3.5.13-1

2007-08-31 Thread Schulman . Andrew
A new version of the lftp package is available in the Cygwin distribution. lftp is a sophisticated file transfer program and ftp/http client. It supports multiple network protocols, offers tab completion, command history, job control, and bookmarks, can mirror sites and transfer multiple files in

Re: How do I make scripts my PC executable

2007-08-31 Thread Steve Holden
David Christensen wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: [...] We cannot debug your environment because we don't have your environment. I didn't ask for help debugging my environment, TYVM. I was attempting to help zip184 with a problem I've faced in the past, and it turned into a huge exercise in ne

RE: Full reinstall now fails with Vista STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION during postinstall

2007-08-31 Thread Dave Korn
On 29 August 2007 01:05, Jim Kleckner wrote: > In trying to figure out what was going on with Vista Business, > I removed all of cygwin and reinstalled, first as me with > administrator privileges and then with "run as administrator". > In all cases, the postinstall scripts all fail with lines lik

Re: Danny Smith stepping down as MinGW maintainer

2007-08-31 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: Danny Smith sent email to the MinGW lists yesterday indicating that he was stepping down as a maintainer. This is very sad news. Danny was the key person responsible for most of the improvements made to gcc and binutils for windows in the last couple of years. His con

cygwin makes shared folders on vista

2007-08-31 Thread jxt
If I do a mkdir in a bash shell, it creates a folder that vista thinks is shared. Doesn't happen in the normal vista cmd shell. Doesn't happen on XP. And turning off sharing in vista takes forever (minutes). Worse, if I untar a tgz file, in cmd or bash, it creates a vista shared folder. chmod -R

Re: cron

2007-08-31 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
- Original Message - From: "Barry Benowitz" <> To: Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 10:55 AM Subject: cron Hi All, I am really struggling with this. I have been playing and playing. I now get no errors with cron_diagnose.sh, but I don't see any events in cronevents (at least not late

Re: Danny Smith stepping down as MinGW maintainer

2007-08-31 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . . In any event, I hope everyone will join with me to wish Danny the very best of luck in whatever he pursues next. He's going to be an asset whereever he goes and whatever he does. Absolutely !! Cheers, Rob --

RE: How do I make scripts my PC executable

2007-08-31 Thread David Christensen
Andrew DeFaria wrote: > ... Additionally, if say run from cron, Thanks for the reminder -- cron was another issue/ test case that drove me towards the solution I posted. > Since you were obviously having difficulties there is still something > wrong with *your* environment ... > and as such I kn

Re: cron

2007-08-31 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 08/31/2007, Barry Benowitz wrote: C:\cygwin /system textmode C:\cygwin/bin /usr/bin system textmode C:\cygwin/lib /usr/lib system textmode Shame on you! ;-) Try it with binmode, making sure you get rid of all the carriage returns from you

Re: 1.5.24: sshd immediately disconnects upon receiving a connection

2007-08-31 Thread Jeremy K . Truax
Just an update on this. I finally went all out and fully uninstalled the antivirus program and sshd worked like a charm. I had previously disabled the antivirus program but that wasn't enough apparently. Also it must have had some services still running under Safe Mode as well. Thanks for the he

Danny Smith stepping down as MinGW maintainer

2007-08-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
Danny Smith sent email to the MinGW lists yesterday indicating that he was stepping down as a maintainer. This is very sad news. Danny was the key person responsible for most of the improvements made to gcc and binutils for windows in the last couple of years. His contributions will be sorely mi

cron

2007-08-31 Thread Barry Benowitz
Hi All, I am really struggling with this. I have been playing and playing. I now get no errors with cron_diagnose.sh, but I don't see any events in cronevents (at least not lately) There were some with earlier attempts on 8/30. I can see cron running when I do ps -e, but I edit my crontab to p

Re: cross-device mv regression in latest snapshot

2007-08-31 Thread Eric Blake
Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > I'm trying to track down a breakage in cross-device moves in the latest cygwin > CVS code, whether it is in coreutils-9.6-5 or due to a recent cygwin change, > although my current suspect is Corinna's changes. I've ruled out my changes in coreutils-9.6-5, as a fr

cross-device mv regression in latest snapshot

2007-08-31 Thread Eric Blake
I'm trying to track down a breakage in cross-device moves in the latest cygwin CVS code, whether it is in coreutils-9.6-5 or due to a recent cygwin change, although my current suspect is Corinna's changes. The symptoms of the problem are that I am no longer able to use mv to copy files from my

Setup Error

2007-08-31 Thread ERIC HO
I'm running snapshot 2007-08-10. When I ran setup to install the new rxvt, it hang. I then canceled the install. Now everytime I ran the setup again, it tries to uninstall rxvt. But then setup encountered an error and closed. It seems some files/registers corrupted. Is ther anyway to workaround

RE: How do I make scripts my PC executable

2007-08-31 Thread Dave Korn
On 31 August 2007 13:10, Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Andrew DeFaria on 8/30/2007 11:58 PM: >> I'm always amazed how little people know about their own startup >> environments and the reluctance to learn more about them thus improving >> the

Re: How do I make scripts my PC executable

2007-08-31 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Andrew DeFaria on 8/30/2007 11:58 PM: > I'm always amazed how little people know about their own startup > environments and the reluctance to learn more about them thus improving > their environment and productivity. The -l option to bash

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dpatch-2.0.26-2

2007-08-31 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://packages.debian.org/dpatch License : GPL An easy to use patch system for packages, It lets you store patches and other simple customization templates in debian/patches and otherwise does not require much reorganization of your source tree.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: flac-1.2.0-2/flac-devel-1.2.0-2/libFLAC8-1.2.0-2/libFLAC++6-1.2.0-2

2007-08-31 Thread David Rothenberger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 A new version the flac, flac-devel, libFLAC8, and libFLAC++6 packages are now available for download. NEWS: = This fixes a packaging error in the dependencies for flac. The dependencies now correctly include libogg and libiconv2. It should fix t