Clients don't connect to xwin server

2020-04-20 Thread Randy Dawson via Cygwin
I am stuck on this after several re-installs, remove cygwin64 dir and install from scratch. Any application (FVWM, fluxbox, Plasma, etc.) launches the xwindow server, but no mouse in the window, no applications. Closing the window says 3 clients running, so it did start them, but they dont

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-2.34-2 (x86/x86_64)(Test)

2020-04-20 Thread JonY via Cygwin
On 4/21/20 1:10 AM, Steven Penny wrote: >> The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: >> >> * binutils-2.34 > > Why is binutils still 24 MB? > Because the stripped down version is broken and not able to find w32api libraries, shared library builds are crashing on

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-2.34-2 (x86/x86_64)(Test)

2020-04-20 Thread Steven Penny via Cygwin
> The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: > > * binutils-2.34 Why is binutils still 24 MB? -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 02:44:41PM -0600, Bill Stewart wrote: >On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 2:09 PM Christopher Faylor wrote: >>With mailman, if you click on a message in the archives and then click >>on the email address at the top, your mail client of choice will be >>opened with correct

Re: X crashes with SIGPIPE

2020-04-20 Thread Henry Gebhardt via Cygwin
On Mon, 2020-04-20 at 18:03 +0100, Jon Turney wrote: > On 18/04/2020 04:38, Henry Gebhardt via Cygwin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Cygwin/X crashes every few days for me. I managed to obtain a > > backtrace > > from the last crash (attached). Server log is also included. > > > > I have not, yet,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] biber 2.14-1

2020-04-20 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin-announce
The following package has been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * biber-2.14-1 Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of BibLaTeX. Biber supports full UTF-8, can (re-)encode input and output, supports highly configurable sorting, dynamic bibliography sets, and many other features. This is

biber 2.14-1

2020-04-20 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin-announce
The following package has been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * biber-2.14-1 Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of BibLaTeX. Biber supports full UTF-8, can (re-)encode input and output, supports highly configurable sorting, dynamic bibliography sets, and many other features. This is

[ANNOUNCEMENT] TeX Live 2020

2020-04-20 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin-announce
Cygwin's TeX Live packages have been updated to the latest upstream release, TeX Live 2020. TeX Live provides a comprehensive, cross-platform TeX system. It includes all the major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts that are free software, including support for many languages

TeX Live 2020

2020-04-20 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin-announce
Cygwin's TeX Live packages have been updated to the latest upstream release, TeX Live 2020. TeX Live provides a comprehensive, cross-platform TeX system. It includes all the major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts that are free software, including support for many languages

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Bill Stewart
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 2:09 PM Christopher Faylor wrote: > With mailman, if you click on a message in the archives and then click > on the email address at the top, your mail client of choice will be > opened with correct "In-Reply-To" set. If you want to reply to the list > then replace the

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:59:08AM -0600, Brian Inglis wrote: >The new server ml archive does not seem to offer the metadata available on the >previous server and archive, and that is true of most archives that do not >allow >replies: probably a good way to reduce space required by 50-90%, from

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:41:32AM -0600, Bill Stewart wrote: >On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:20 AM Stephen Carrier wrote: >>I think the OP's first question was asking how to effectively join an >>existing thread when one is browsing the recent archives and not >>subscribed to the list. >> >>Joining

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Bill Stewart
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 12:11 PM Eliot Moss wrote: > On 4/20/2020 1:41 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: > > > This exact problem is one of the main reasons why many organizations > > prefer a web-based forum rather than a mailing list. (NNTP is a > > possibility, but many [most?] organizations block NNTP

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Eliot Moss
On 4/20/2020 1:41 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: This exact problem is one of the main reasons why many organizations prefer a web-based forum rather than a mailing list. (NNTP is a possibility, but many [most?] organizations block NNTP access for content management and security reasons.) One of the

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2020-04-20 11:20, Stephen Carrier wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 12:44:30PM -0600, Brian Inglis wrote: >> On 2020-04-17 12:16, Andrey Repin wrote: >>> Greetings, Stephen Carrier! I remember having had the same confusion the first few times I initiated threads. >> >>> When you start

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Bill Stewart
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:20 AM Stephen Carrier wrote: > I think the OP's first question was asking how to effectively join > an existing thread when one is browsing the recent archives and not > subscribed to the list. > > Joining the list after seeing a question one would like to answer >

[PATCH 1/3 v2] Cygwin: accounts: Unify nsswitch.conf db_* defaults

2020-04-20 Thread David Macek via Cygwin-patches
Signed-off-by: David Macek --- winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc | 11 +-- winsup/doc/ntsec.xml | 27 +++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-) diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc b/winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc index 57d90189d3..2d5fc488bb 100644 ---

[PATCH 2/3 v2] Cygwin: accounts: Don't keep old schemes when parsing nsswitch.conf

2020-04-20 Thread David Macek via Cygwin-patches
The implicit assumption seemed to be that any subsequent occurence of the same setting in nsswitch.conf is supposed to rewrite the previous ones completely. This was not the case if the third or any further schema was previously defined and the last line defined less than that (but at least 2),

[PATCH 3/3] Cygwin: accounts: Report unrecognized db_* nsswitch.conf keywords

2020-04-20 Thread David Macek via Cygwin-patches
Signed-off-by: David Macek --- winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc b/winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc index b733a6ee87..e105248c20 100644 --- a/winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc +++ b/winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc @@ -828,6 +828,8 @@

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Stephen Carrier
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 12:44:30PM -0600, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2020-04-17 12:16, Andrey Repin wrote: > > Greetings, Stephen Carrier! > >> I remember having had the same confusion the first few times I initiated > >> threads. > > > When you start a new thread, do not reply to existing threads.

Re: X crashes with SIGPIPE

2020-04-20 Thread Jon Turney
On 18/04/2020 04:38, Henry Gebhardt via Cygwin wrote: Hi, Cygwin/X crashes every few days for me. I managed to obtain a backtrace from the last crash (attached). Server log is also included. I have not, yet, managed to pin down the exact trigger for the crash. I am running two graphical

License declaration

2020-04-20 Thread David Macek via Cygwin-patches
Patches to the Cygwin sources sent by me are licensed under the 2-clause BSD license. This applies to all past patches as well. I'll try to add a Signed-off-by to each patch. -- David Macek

Re: [ITP] gl-manpages

2020-04-20 Thread Jon Turney
On 16/04/2020 09:29, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote: packaging is fine. Still no clue about  Note: Writing glBlendColor.3G  Element div in namespace '' encountered in td, but no template matches. These warnings are basically the docbook way of saying "can't render the content in the

Re: latest openssh can not connect to older server

2020-04-20 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2020-04-20 04:11, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 19.04.2020 um 14:31 schrieb Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan via Cygwin: >> On Sun, 19 Apr 2020, 8:13 pm David Balažic via Cygwin, wrote: >>> I tried to backup some files from my server with scp and failed: >>> $ scp  -v  root@the.server:/root/a.file  . >>>

Re: latest openssh can not connect to older server

2020-04-20 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 19.04.2020 um 14:31 schrieb Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan via Cygwin: Hi. New OpenSSH client will not connect to server that use SHA1. Please refer to this: https://www.openssh.com/legacy.html You should configure your old server to use more modern cipher This isn't always a feasible approach.