Generic Event Extension message

2009-08-24 Thread Peter J. Stieber
I'm getting this messages when running remote clients from a cygwin x session. Is there a way to get rid of them? Pete -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/

Re: Generic Event Extension message

2009-08-24 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PS = Pete Stieber PS I'm getting this messages when running PS remote clients from a cygwin x session. PS Is there a way to get rid of them? Y = Yaakov Y Maybe. Y Y Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html cygcheck.out attached. Pete Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System

Re: Generic Event Extension message

2009-08-24 Thread Peter J. Stieber
Y = Yaakov Y The X Generic Event Extension (XGE) was added... Thanks for the detailed explanation Yaakov. Pete -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ:

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-14 Thread Peter J. Stieber
CGF It is useless. You probaby have to continue CGF after ld has been attached to see where the CGF SEGV really is coming from. Thanks. Here is the result... GNU gdb 6.3.50_2004-12-28-cvs (cygwin-special) Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-14 Thread Peter J. Stieber
One last post before calling it a night. I built a debug version of the cygwin DLL as well and installed it. Here is the latest gdb session: Attaching to program `/bin/ld.exe', process 304 [Switching to thread 304.0x990] (gdb) bt #0 0x7c901231 in ntdll!DbgUiConnectToDbg () from

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-14 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PS = Peter J. Stieber PSOne last post before calling it a night. I built a debug PS version of the cygwin DLL as well and installed it. PS Here is the latest gdb session: CGF I don't remember if I suggested trying a snapshot CGF but I'm wondering if a snapshot would just fix CGF your problem

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-14 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PSTried 20051013 and it worked :-))) CGF I'm sorry that it didn't occur to me much CGF earlier that this was a cygwin CGF heap problem that was fixed in a snapshot. CGF I guess that, as a rule of thumb, CGF try a snapshot is always a good idea. Not to be a total brown nose, but I've been

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PS = Peter J. Stieber on 10/9/2005 7:59 PM: PS It's attached. I added the -t command to the g++ command so PS the loader would list the files it was processing when it breaks. PS The name of the object file in the last line should be PS SimpleInterpolationTable.o, but it gets truncated. PS (/home

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PS = Peter J. Stieber PS Sorry in advance for the stupid questions, but... PS PS I downloaded the binutils source package, and PS extracted the source. When PS I ran PS PS ./configure --help PS PS I didn't see a --enable-debug option or anything PS I though was equivalent. Am I missing something

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PS = Pete Stieber PS Do I also need to build a debug version of the cygwin DLL? BD = Brian Dessent BDIt would help, since otherwise backtraces will only have raw BD addresses. Note that the cygwin configure script[*] has a BD --enable-debugging switch, but this is for enabling lots of BD runtime

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PS = Peter J. Stieber PS Sorry in advance for the stupid questions, but... PS PS I downloaded the binutils source package, and PS extracted the source. When PS I ran PS PS ./configure --help PS PS I didn't see a --enable-debug option or anything PS I though was equivalent. Am I missing something

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Peter J. Stieber
1. I built the binutils code from the source. 2. I renamed /usr/bin/ld.exe to /usr/bin/ld-old.exe. 3. I copies ld-new.exe to /usr/bin. The debug session that starts when ld crashes repeats Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. over and over. It never seems to stop. Was copying

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Peter J. Stieber
OK. This time gdb seemed to attach to the broken ld process, but the back trace still doesn't have symbols... GNU gdb 6.3.50_2004-12-28-cvs (cygwin-special) Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-09 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PS = Peter J. Stieber PS I have a large simluation that I have built under cygwin for a PS quite a while. Recently the ld phase of the build started PS generating a stackdump (ld.exe.stackdump). PS PS Unfortunately I cannot recreate the problem with a simple PS test case. I have attached cygcheck

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ncurses-5.4-2, libncurses8-5.4-2, libncurses-devel-5.4-2, ncurses-demo-5.4-2

2005-07-10 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PSOne of these packages seems to be giving me grief. PS I keep getting Download Incomplete. Try again? PS when I try to include them using setup version PS 2.457.2.2 and the mirros site ftp://gnu.kookel.org. PS PSI try to install everything. My cygcheck. -s -v -r PS output is attached. I'm

Re: Setup column far too wide

2004-11-09 Thread Peter J. Stieber
There was a package at some point that confused setup's versioning logic, so setup stored a very long version number for it. The package is long gone from the mirrors, but if the OP was unlucky enough to update while it was still available, he has a corrupt line in his /etc/setup/installed.db.

Re: latest snapshot seems better wrt make -j hang problems

2004-03-15 Thread Peter J. Stieber
I wonder if there is a super-secret club out there somewhere that I can now join having spent the last four months wrapping my head around subtle multi-threaded race conditions. My wife has not quite picked up on the fact that when I have a certain pained intense look on my face, I'm really

Re: latest snapshot seems better wrt make -j hang problems

2004-03-15 Thread Peter J. Stieber
I don't see how it could be worthwhile since cygwin doesn't use posix threads or even posix mutexes under the hood. Sorry for my stupidity. The tools are probably very OS specific anyway. Just trying to help. Oh well. Pete -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Undefined references when compiling C++ program

2004-03-05 Thread Peter J. Stieber
when I try to compile this... //zozo.cc #include iostream int main() { std::cout Salut std::endl; return 0; } ...with... gcc zozo.cc Use g++ zozo.cc instead. Pete -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: check_case:strict Useful

2004-02-25 Thread Peter J. Stieber
CFG This falls under the classification of really need it and CFG really know what you're doing. I'll consider that the ultimate compliment ;-) Pete -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: C COM objects?

2004-01-30 Thread Peter J. Stieber
I'll give ZooLib another try. If I can build ZooLib with Cygwin, that will mean that ZooLib can be built with gcc on all the platforms that ZooLib supports (Mac OS, Windows, Linux and BeOS). I think that would encourage its acceptance as a framework for writing open source software, if one

Re: Updated: man-1.5k-2

2004-01-10 Thread Peter J. Stieber
Steve Kelem wrote: I installed this version, and I still get the ESC characters. Do you have any idea why I'm getting them? Larry Hall wrote: Does '/usr/share/misc/man.conf' contain this line? PAGER /usr/bin/less -isrR I updated to man-1.5k-2 too and my '/usr/share/misc/man.conf'

Re: cvs complains of no repository

2003-11-12 Thread Peter J. Stieber
Initially I sent this directly to Ken. Sorry Ken. See reply below... There's a difference between 1.10 and 1.11 that I don't understand. Performing a cvs co -c using 1.10 correctly provides a listing of the projects. The version shows Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.10 `Halibut'

Re: cvs - cygwin1.dll recompile - configure fails in w32api/

2003-11-12 Thread Peter J. Stieber
Just tried this myself this morning (11/12/2003 9:00 AM PST) and it worked. Definitely did not need the Remedy. Pete $ cd / $ rm -rf src $ export CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/src ;\ cvs login ;\ cvs -z3 checkout winsup ;\ cd /obj ;\ /src/configure --enable-debugging

Problems building cygwin from source

2003-11-04 Thread Peter J. Stieber
I'm interested in building the cygwin DLL from the source, but I'm having problems. I've attached my cygcheck output. I tried the following sequence under my home directory... $ mkdir cygwin-src $ cd cygwin-src $ export CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/src $ cvs -z3 co winsup $ mkdir

Re: Problems building cygwin from source

2003-11-04 Thread Peter J. Stieber
I'm interested in building the cygwin DLL from the source, but I'm having problems. I've attached my cygcheck output. I tried the following sequence under my home directory... $ mkdir cygwin-src $ cd cygwin-src $ export CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/src $ cvs -z3 co winsup $

Re: cygcheck as body or attachment (was RE: rsync hang .... )

2003-10-24 Thread Peter J. Stieber
I've used Cygwin for several years now, and have read this mailing list for quite some time. When I encountered the rsync problem, I searched mailing lists as well as Google to find the solution, couldn't find a definitive answer, and eventually found one myself that worked, so I thought I'd

Re: rsync local dir copy hang - solved for me

2003-10-23 Thread Peter J. Stieber
I'm just a user and follower of cygwin, but it amazes me how many people put the output of cygcheck -s output: or cygcheck -svr in the body of their email instead of as an attachment when every stinking email has http://cygwin.com/problems.html at the bottom of it and that page has Run

Re: cygpath hangings: A fix - bash patch enclosed -- bash maintainer please note!

2003-10-18 Thread Peter J. Stieber
if anyone wants to try this. It would be good to confirm or deny that this fixes the problem for everyone. I tried the posted simple shell script with the old and new bash.exe. Worked exactly as you predicted... Hung with the old, didn't hang (i.e. worked) with the new. cygcheck output

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc-3.3.1-2

2003-09-25 Thread Peter J. Stieber
I've made a new version of gcc available for download. This is a very minor refresh from the 3.3.1-1. The only noticeable change from the last release was an attempt to correctly define mbstate_t. Thanks for the quick fix Chris. This fixed the problem in my original report

Latest GCC has mbstate_t problem

2003-09-23 Thread Peter J. Stieber
I'm using cygwin v1.5.5 under Win2K. uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 lisa 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin cygcheck -s -v -r is attached. A long time ago (11/7/2002) I reported a problem with GCC 3.2 20020818 that involved the mbstate_t structure. cgf quickly fixed it back

Re: perl-5.8.1-1 problem

2003-08-28 Thread Peter J. Stieber
This perl is a test release which requires cygwin-1.5.3. Gerrit, I'm having the same problem. I updated in my normal way using setup.exe. I did not have the Exp radio button checked and am using 1.3.22. It seems like I shouldn't get this until 1.5.3 is the Curr. I'm I missing something? Pete

Re: perl-5.8.1-1 problem

2003-08-28 Thread Peter J. Stieber
This is my fault. I somehow made 5.8.1 the default. I've fixed this now but it will take a while to propagate to mirrors. cgf Thanks, Pete -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: