Re: [RFU] [1.7] Base-Files 3.8-2

2009-02-16 Thread John Morrison
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:59:37AM -, John Morrison wrote: Er, John, I'm sure you really know how to look at the cygwin-announce mailing list archives right? http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2009-02/ Sorry Chris, I've been (a little) out of touch with the cygwin stuff for a while...

[RFU] [1.7] Base-Files 3.8-3 (was 3.8-2)

2009-02-16 Thread John Morrison
Change Log -- 3.8-3 * Ensure that the destination directory exists during postinstall - Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/base-files/base-files-3.8-3.tar.bz2 md5sum: 600a176402bd3f9659433cffd1d71aa0 In case they're wanted...

Re: [RFU] [1.7] Base-Files 3.8-3 (was 3.8-2)

2009-02-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 16 08:56, John Morrison wrote: wget http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/base-files/base-files-3.8-3.tar.bz2 Uploaded. I pulled the 3.8-2 version so 3.7-1 is prev. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin

Re: [RFU 1.7] rsync-3.0.5-1

2009-02-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 15 22:54, Lapo Luchini wrote: http://lapo.it/cygwin/rsync/rsync-3.0.5-1-src.tar.bz2 http://lapo.it/cygwin/rsync/rsync-3.0.5-1.tar.bz2 Uploaded. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT

Re: [RFU 1.7] serf-0.3.0-2

2009-02-16 Thread David Rothenberger
On 2/6/2009 9:24 AM, David Rothenberger wrote: wget -x -nH --cut-dirs=2 \ http://mysite.verizon.net/res00a7j/cygwin-1.7/serf/libserf0-devel/libserf0-devel-0.3.0-2.tar.bz2 \ http://mysite.verizon.net/res00a7j/cygwin-1.7/serf/libserf0-devel/setup.hint \

Re: [RFU 1.7] serf-0.3.0-2

2009-02-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 16 09:47, David Rothenberger wrote: On 2/6/2009 9:24 AM, David Rothenberger wrote: wget -x -nH --cut-dirs=2 \ http://mysite.verizon.net/res00a7j/cygwin-1.7/serf/libserf0-devel/libserf0-devel-0.3.0-2.tar.bz2 \

Re: X / gtk-x11 / flicker and other problems [+PATCH]

2009-02-16 Thread John Emmas
- Original Message - From: John Emmas john...@tiscali.co.uk One more thing Jon. I'm probably being ludicrously simplistic here - but to fix the resizing problem (not resizing until the user lets go of the mouse button) could there be a simple fix for this just by responding to the

starxwin.bat always misfires the xterm once

2009-02-16 Thread Franz di Coccio
Hi all, I have installed cygwin-x on windows XP and I'm pretty much happy about it. There is only one little annoying thing that I am not able to fix. I use cygwin-x to ssh into linux systems and occasionally launch remote applications. I do not use a x-desktop. I've added an icon to the

R: starxwin.bat always misfires the xterm once

2009-02-16 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Lun 16/2/09, Franz di Coccio ha scritto: Da: Franz di Coccio Oggetto: starxwin.bat always misfires the xterm once A: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Data: Lunedì 16 febbraio 2009, 11:08 Hi all, I have installed cygwin-x on windows XP and I'm pretty much happy about it. There is only

R: starxwin.bat always misfires the xterm once - it works!

2009-02-16 Thread Franz di Coccio
Marco, your suggestion to insert %CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin\sleep 4 before the xterm launch instruction %RUN% xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l in starxwin.bat did the trick! Thanks a lot! Grazie! F PS That's a weird behaviour, anyway... I wonder why the pause is needed only for the first execution after

RE: RE: Intermittent X clipboard failure

2009-02-16 Thread Williams, Chris (Marlboro)
This is the same workaround I've been using. I'm also using Office 2003 and X11R7. I'm fine with this workaround. I need Office but I don't need the Office clipboard. We have other X servers here and I've experienced clipboard problems with those and the Office clipboard also. -Chris

Re: Intermittent X clipboard failure

2009-02-16 Thread Marc Girod
Hello, Williams, Chris (Marlboro) wrote: After a while, and unfortunately I don't know what event triggers this, Windows stops accepting clipboard data from the X apps and vice versa, I can't paste into any X app. I recognize your symptoms. I have the same problem on Windows Vista. The

/usr/bin/startx fails on new x.org install?

2009-02-16 Thread Lloyd Wood
I updated Cygwin and got the new x.org server. I have a couple of problems: 1. /usr/bin/startx can no longer be used to launch X in multiwindow mode. Instead, it creates the auth file, prints a dialog telling me to read /var/log/XWin.0.log, and that I'm running the Cygwin/X project version

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygwin.din posix.s ...

2009-02-16 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2009-02-16 15:36:01 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog cygwin.din posix.sgml winsup/cygwin/include: inttypes.h winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin: version.h Log message: *

src/winsup/cygwin include/cygwin/version.h Cha ...

2009-02-16 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2009-02-16 20:22:38 Modified files: winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin: version.h winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog cygwin.din malloc_wrapper.cc posix.sgml

Re: [attention base-files maintainer] copying /bin files to home dir on first run of cygwin.bat

2009-02-16 Thread John Morrison
I did a base install of cygwin 1.7 (using setup-1.7.exe), and the first time I ran cygwin.bat, it gave the following: +/bin/mkdir -p `dirname ${fDest}` Thanks I'll patch that ASAP. J. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

SSH/SCREEN/REATTACH bug

2009-02-16 Thread eval
hi screen hangs when attempting to reattach to a session that wasn't manually detached but instead the ssh connection to the server where screen is running was closed. i can neither screen -list nor screen -D -RR to get back into the session. for both calls screen will wait forever but

Does CYGWIN work on Windows 2008 x86 architecture ?

2009-02-16 Thread Martine Carannante
Hi I try again to ask if someone has installed CYGWIN on Windows 2008 x86 architecture. It works fine on x64 architecture but bash fails on X86 like this bash 2 [main] bash 3520 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION 315 [main] bash 3520 open_stackdumpfile:

man command not working

2009-02-16 Thread ashabrol
Hi Man command is not working on my cygwin. When I type simple man command without parmaters it prompts What manual page do you want?. But when i give a parameter it says. $ man ls sh: /usr/bin/tbl: No such file or directory sh: /usr/bin/less: No such file or directory Error executing

Re: Does CYGWIN work on Windows 2008 x86 architecture ?

2009-02-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 16 11:05, Martine Carannante wrote: Hi I try again to ask if someone has installed CYGWIN on Windows 2008 x86 architecture. It works fine on x64 architecture but bash fails on X86 like this bash 2 [main] bash 3520 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Exception:

new x.org server - startx and xinit fail?

2009-02-16 Thread Lloyd Wood
I've just updated my Cygwin installation (1.5.25), and got the new x.org xserver. startx has stopped working. After xauth creates a new authority file, it throws up a dialog saying it's put help text in /var/log/XWin.0.log Perusing /var/log/XWin.0.log shows: XWin was started with the

Re: Does CYGWIN work on Windows 2008 x86 architecture ?

2009-02-16 Thread Martine Carannante
Thanks a lot Martine Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 16 11:05, Martine Carannante wrote: Hi I try again to ask if someone has installed CYGWIN on Windows 2008 x86 architecture. It works fine on x64 architecture but bash fails on X86 like this bash 2 [main] bash 3520

Re: man command not working

2009-02-16 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* ashabrol (Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:34:27 -0800 (PST)) Man command is not working on my cygwin. When I type simple man command without parmaters it prompts What manual page do you want?. But when i give a parameter it says. $ man ls sh: /usr/bin/tbl: No such file or directory sh:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: rsync 3.0.5-1

2009-02-16 Thread Lapo Luchini
I've updated the Cygwin 1.7 version of rsync to 3.0.5-1. rsync is a file transfer program. rsync uses the 'rsync algorithm' which provides a very fast method for bringing remote files into sync. It does this by sending just the differences in the files across the link, without requiring that both

Re: new x.org server - startx and xinit fail?

2009-02-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Lloyd Wood wrote: I've just updated my Cygwin installation (1.5.25), and got the new x.org xserver. startx has stopped working. After xauth creates a new authority file, it throws up a dialog saying it's put help text in /var/log/XWin.0.log Perusing /var/log/XWin.0.log shows: XWin was

Re: new x.org server - startx and xinit fail?

2009-02-16 Thread Lloyd Wood
Ah, installing a number of fonts in Cygwin setup's X11 list, that allows xinit to produce a working X11 virtual desktop window. Once I launch a window manager it's usable, with xterms etc. However, /usr/bin/startx and treating X windows as Windows windows appears to have problems with

Re: new x.org server - startx and xinit fail?

2009-02-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 02/16/2009, Lloyd Wood wrote: Ah, installing a number of fonts in Cygwin setup's X11 list, that allows xinit to produce a working X11 virtual desktop window. Once I launch a window manager it's usable, with xterms etc. However, /usr/bin/startx and treating X windows as Windows windows

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated packages: {serf,libserf0_0,libserf0-devel}-0.3.0-2

2009-02-16 Thread David Rothenberger
This package is for Cygwin 1.7. The serf packages have been updated to the new upstream release 0.3.0. See http://code.google.com/p/serf/source/browse/tags/0.3.0/CHANGES for more details about the changes in this release More information about serf can be found at

[1.7.0-40] parallel (multiple) instances of version 1.7

2009-02-16 Thread Pascal Favre
Hello The latest discussion about parallel instances are dated back to april 2008, discussing parallel instances of 1.5 and 1.7, not multiple instances of 1.7 I noticed when having parallel instances of 1.7 the first startet instances sets the base in /etc/fstab. All further startups (bash) of

Re: [1.7.0-40] parallel (multiple) instances of version 1.7

2009-02-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 16 19:22, Pascal Favre wrote: Hello The latest discussion about parallel instances are dated back to april 2008, discussing parallel instances of 1.5 and 1.7, not multiple instances of 1.7 I noticed when having parallel instances of 1.7 the first startet instances sets the base

Re: Does CYGWIN work on Windows 2008 x86 architecture ?

2009-02-16 Thread Ben Kamen
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Works fine for me. Except in one case: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-10/msg00459.html I opened a support case at Microsoft but it has been refused. Since the problem occurs in a Microsoft DLL, we have no way to fix it in Cygwin. Cygwin 1.7 has a crude workaround