Re: Automatic Cygwin installation for CI ?

2023-12-22 Thread Andrew Schulman via Cygwin
> Is there any documentation how Cygwin 3.5.0 can be automatically (without GUI > and user intervention, e.g. via *.bat script) be installed as part of a CI > (Continuous integration) build environment ? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/745275/can-i-script-a-cygwin-install-to-include-certain-

Re: Automatic Cygwin installation for CI ?

2023-12-16 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin
On 16/12/2023 02:41, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 15/12/2023 18:07, Mainz, Roland via Cygwin wrote: Hi! Is there any documentation how Cygwin 3.5.0 can be automatically (without GUI and user intervention, e.g. via *.bat script) be installed as part of a CI (Continuous integration)

Re: Automatic Cygwin installation for CI ?

2023-12-15 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 15.12.2023 um 18:07 schrieb Mainz, Roland via Cygwin: Hi! Is there any documentation how Cygwin 3.5.0 can be automatically (without GUI and user intervention, e.g. via *.bat script) be installed as part of a CI (Continuous integration) build environment ? Bye, Roland Appveyor

Re: Automatic Cygwin installation for CI ?

2023-12-15 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin
On 15/12/2023 18:07, Mainz, Roland via Cygwin wrote: Hi! Is there any documentation how Cygwin 3.5.0 can be automatically (without GUI and user intervention, e.g. via *.bat script) be installed as part of a CI (Continuous integration) build environment ? Bye, Roland the source

Re: Automatic Cygwin installation for CI ?

2023-12-15 Thread Bill Stewart via Cygwin
On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 10:07 AM Mainz, Roland wrote: Is there any documentation how Cygwin 3.5.0 can be automatically (without > GUI and user intervention, e.g. via *.bat script) be installed as part of a > CI (Continuous integration) build environment ? > Have you looked at cygwin.com? -- Pr

Automatic Cygwin installation for CI ?

2023-12-15 Thread Mainz, Roland via Cygwin
Hi! Is there any documentation how Cygwin 3.5.0 can be automatically (without GUI and user intervention, e.g. via *.bat script) be installed as part of a CI (Continuous integration) build environment ? Bye, Roland i. A. Roland Mainz Entwickler Steuerungssoftware TEE ROVEMA GmbH

Re: Broken links in Cygwin installation

2022-08-22 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Andrey Repin! > Small background: I've been moving my Cygwin installations around to match > path locations between different systems. I've ended up with a lot of broken > symlinks, between which some are actually lost. > I've baked a PowerShell script to solve the issue (see attachment

Re: Broken links in Cygwin installation

2022-08-21 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/21/2022 7:42 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, All! # LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 find -L / -xdev -type l -exec ls -ld --color '{}' + lrwxrwxrwx 1 anrdaemon None 28 Dec 26 2021 ./bin/rcs2log -> ../share/cvs/contrib/rcs2log lrwxrwxrwx 1 anrdaemon None 15 Nov 10 2021 ./lib/tcl8.6/tclConfig.sh -> ../t

Broken links in Cygwin installation

2022-08-21 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, All! # LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 find -L / -xdev -type l -exec ls -ld --color '{}' + lrwxrwxrwx 1 anrdaemon None 28 Dec 26 2021 ./bin/rcs2log -> ../share/cvs/contrib/rcs2log lrwxrwxrwx 1 anrdaemon None 15 Nov 10 2021 ./lib/tcl8.6/tclConfig.sh -> ../tclConfig.sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 anrdaemon None 17 F

RE: Cygwin installation fails in Windows 10

2020-10-16 Thread Chevva,Pramod Kumar via Cygwin
] Re: Cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 To reset all Cygwin Setup program settings rm /etc/setup/setup.rc or delete the file from the equivalent path relative to your Cygwin root directory under Windows. Please get your own IT team to diagnose why the Cygwin Setup program is not or is no

Re: Cygwin installation fails in Windows 10

2020-10-15 Thread Brian Inglis
15, 2020 1:02 PM > To: Chevva,Pramod Kumar ; cygwin@cygwin.com > Cc: Deval,Ananth Nag > Subject: [External] Re: Cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 > > On 15.10.2020 18:47, Chevva,Pramod Kumar via Cygwin wrote: >> Hi Team, >> >> Cygwin installation fails in win

RE: Cygwin installation fails in Windows 10

2020-10-15 Thread Chevva,Pramod Kumar via Cygwin
-b8a0-95044bf99197%22%7d Thanks Pramod -Original Message- From: Chevva,Pramod Kumar Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2020 1:39 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: Deval,Ananth Nag Subject: RE: [External] Re: Cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 I don't have access to the AV logs bu

RE: Cygwin installation fails in Windows 10

2020-10-15 Thread Chevva,Pramod Kumar via Cygwin
l] Re: Cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 On 15.10.2020 18:47, Chevva,Pramod Kumar via Cygwin wrote: > Hi Team, > > Cygwin installation fails in windows 10 after we ran the setup-x86_64.exe and > unable to see the installation window. > > Please advise. > > Thank

Re: Cygwin installation fails in Windows 10

2020-10-15 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin
On 15.10.2020 18:47, Chevva,Pramod Kumar via Cygwin wrote: Hi Team, Cygwin installation fails in windows 10 after we ran the setup-x86_64.exe and unable to see the installation window. Please advise. Thanks Pramod Have you checked your Antivirus logs or settings ? -- Problem reports

Cygwin installation fails in Windows 10

2020-10-15 Thread Chevva,Pramod Kumar via Cygwin
Hi Team, Cygwin installation fails in windows 10 after we ran the setup-x86_64.exe and unable to see the installation window. Please advise. Thanks Pramod -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https

Re: Problem with output from gawk software in recent Cygwin installation

2020-07-28 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2020-07-28 09:32, Bryan VanSchouwen via Cygwin wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 12:06 AM Brian Inglis wrote: >> On 2020-07-27 15:58, Bryan VanSchouwen wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 4:20 PM Brian Inglis wrote: On 2020-07-27 11:50, Michel LaBarre wrote: > On July 27, 2020 12:52 PM,

Re: Problem with output from gawk software in recent Cygwin installation

2020-07-28 Thread Bryan VanSchouwen via Cygwin
Just out of curiosity: Could this "" issue be something new for Windows 10? I ask because I don't recall having this issue with my old Windows 7 computer. Bryan On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 12:06 AM Brian Inglis < brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca> wrote: > On 2020-07-27 15:58, Bryan VanSchouwen wrot

Re: Problem with output from gawk software in recent Cygwin installation

2020-07-27 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2020-07-27 15:58, Bryan VanSchouwen wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 4:20 PM Brian Inglis wrote: >> On 2020-07-27 11:50, Michel LaBarre wrote: >>> On July 27, 2020 12:52 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: On 7/27/2020 11:47 AM, Bryan VanSchouwen wrote: > I just tried executing an awk script using th

Re: Problem with output from gawk software in recent Cygwin installation

2020-07-27 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2020-07-27 11:50, Michel LaBarre wrote: >> On July 27, 2020 12:52 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: >> On 7/27/2020 11:47 AM, Bryan VanSchouwen wrote: >>> I just tried executing an awk script using the most recent version of > gawk, >>> but the output did not turn out the way that it was supposed to. >>> >

RE: Problem with output from gawk software in recent Cygwin installation

2020-07-27 Thread Michel LaBarre
> -Original Message- > From: Cygwin [mailto:cygwin-boun...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Eliot Moss > Sent: July 27, 2020 12:52 PM > To: Bryan VanSchouwen; cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Problem with output from gawk software in recent Cygwin > installation > &g

Re: Problem with output from gawk software in recent Cygwin installation

2020-07-27 Thread Eliot Moss
On 7/27/2020 11:47 AM, Bryan VanSchouwen via Cygwin wrote: Hello. I just tried executing an awk script using the most recent version of gawk, but the output did not turn out the way that it was supposed to. This script uses the following command to print the output data to the output file: prin

Re: Problem with output from gawk software in recent Cygwin installation

2020-07-27 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
Bryan VanSchouwen via Cygwin writes: > I just tried executing an awk script using the most recent version of gawk, > but the output did not turn out the way that it was supposed to. ... > and previously, this command always printed the values of the three > variables on a single line, separated

Problem with output from gawk software in recent Cygwin installation

2020-07-27 Thread Bryan VanSchouwen via Cygwin
Hello. I just tried executing an awk script using the most recent version of gawk, but the output did not turn out the way that it was supposed to. This script uses the following command to print the output data to the output file: print(cai[i], rpi[i], i) > "Fit_Height_correln_plot_-_cPuMP_vs_2N

Re: Problem with "xmgrace" graphing software in recent Cygwin installation

2020-07-24 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin
On 24.07.2020 14:00, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: This problem was reported 2 1/2 years ago, and its solution was posted here:   https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2018-March/236345.html The problem and solution have been rediscovered several times since then.  Maybe one of the xmgrace

Re: Problem with "xmgrace" graphing software in recent Cygwin installation

2020-07-24 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 7/24/2020 1:19 AM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 24.07.2020 05:00, Bryan VanSchouwen via Cygwin wrote: Hello. I recently installed a copy of the Cygwin software package on my new Windows 10 laptop.  However, whenever I try to access the "xmgrace" graphing software (by entering the comman

Re: Problem with "xmgrace" graphing software in recent Cygwin installation

2020-07-24 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Am 2020-07-24 07:19, schrieb Marco Atzeri via Cygwin: On 24.07.2020 05:00, Bryan VanSchouwen via Cygwin wrote: Hello. I recently installed a copy of the Cygwin software package on my new Windows 10 laptop. However, whenever I try to access the "xmgrace" graphing software (by entering the comma

Re: Problem with "xmgrace" graphing software in recent Cygwin installation

2020-07-23 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin
On 24.07.2020 05:00, Bryan VanSchouwen via Cygwin wrote: Hello. I recently installed a copy of the Cygwin software package on my new Windows 10 laptop. However, whenever I try to access the "xmgrace" graphing software (by entering the command "xmgrace &" in the xterm command shell, as I did on

Problem with "xmgrace" graphing software in recent Cygwin installation

2020-07-23 Thread Bryan VanSchouwen via Cygwin
Hello. I recently installed a copy of the Cygwin software package on my new Windows 10 laptop. However, whenever I try to access the "xmgrace" graphing software (by entering the command "xmgrace &" in the xterm command shell, as I did on my old Windows 7 laptop), I get the following error message

RE: How can I determine why gdb throws unknown exceptions when debugging programs with threads on my Cygwin installation?

2019-10-28 Thread Soegtrop, Michael
Dear Jay, > On the advice of Jon Turney, I ran a "bt f" command after gdb caught the > exception, and it appears that a Trend Micro dll (TmUmEvt64.dll) is where the > error occurs: Since the message with a similar problem I posted is from April 2016, it would also make sense to report this to T

Re: How can I determine why gdb throws unknown exceptions when debugging programs with threads on my Cygwin installation?

2019-10-25 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2019-10-25 20:34, Jay P. Elston wrote: > On October 25, 2019 6:48 AM, Michael Soegtrop wrote: >> It has been reported in the past that antivirus software from Trend Micro >> result in STATUS_GUARD_PAGE_VIOLATION in ntdll!RtlAllocateHeap (). >> See: >> http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/XWin-sta

RE: How can I determine why gdb throws unknown exceptions when debugging programs with threads on my Cygwin installation?

2019-10-25 Thread Jay P. Elston
On October 25, 2019 6:48 AM, Michael Soegtrop wrote: >It has been reported in the past that antivirus software from Trend Micro >result in STATUS_GUARD_PAGE_VIOLATION in ntdll!RtlAllocateHeap (). >See: >http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/XWin-startup-crash-x86-64-Windows-10-td126544.html#a1265

RE: How can I determine why gdb throws unknown exceptions when debugging programs with threads on my Cygwin installation?

2019-10-25 Thread Soegtrop, Michael
Dear Jon, It has been reported in the past that antivirus software from Trend Micro result in STATUS_GUARD_PAGE_VIOLATION in ntdll!RtlAllocateHeap (). See: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/XWin-startup-crash-x86-64-Windows-10-td126544.html#a126561 Best regards, Michael Intel Deutschland Gm

Re: How can I determine why gdb throws unknown exceptions when debugging programs with threads on my Cygwin installation?

2019-10-25 Thread Jon Turney
On 23/10/2019 18:25, Jay P. Elston wrote: Hi all, I developed a problem debugging threads on my Cygwin installed on a Window 7 PC -- gdb throws an unknown target exception when it gets to the pthread_crreate() call. This seems to be saying that the exception isn't thrown when not run under

How can I determine why gdb throws unknown exceptions when debugging programs with threads on my Cygwin installation?

2019-10-23 Thread Jay P. Elston
b with the commands: $ gcc -g threads.c $ ./a.exe $ gdb a.exe I suspected that maybe my Cygwin installation has "gone bad", so I removed Cygwin, rebooted, and put a fresh Cygwin install on my pc. (I did this by rebooting in safe mode, getting the latest version of setup-x86_64.exe an

Re: Errors creating new 32-bit Cygwin installation

2019-02-13 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Adam Dinwoodie! > I'm trying to create a new 32-bit Cygwin installation, but the > installation is failing. I'm getting errors during the postinstall > script phase, starting MinTTY reports forking errors, and attempting > to rebase in ash fails with "for

Re: Errors creating new 32-bit Cygwin installation

2019-02-13 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 at 16:17, Ken Brown wrote: > On 2/13/2019 10:38 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > > I'm trying to create a new 32-bit Cygwin installation, but the > > installation is failing. I'm getting errors during the postinstall > > script phase, starting Min

Re: Errors creating new 32-bit Cygwin installation

2019-02-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/13/2019 10:38 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to create a new 32-bit Cygwin installation, but the > installation is failing. I'm getting errors during the postinstall > script phase, starting MinTTY reports forking errors, and attempting > to re

Errors creating new 32-bit Cygwin installation

2019-02-13 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
Hi, I'm trying to create a new 32-bit Cygwin installation, but the installation is failing. I'm getting errors during the postinstall script phase, starting MinTTY reports forking errors, and attempting to rebase in ash fails with "fork: can't reserve memory for parent sta

Re: Unexpected behavior of ~ when calling bash from a different cygwin installation

2018-06-16 Thread cyg Simple
On 6/16/2018 9:33 AM, Soegtrop, Michael wrote: > Dear Marco, > >> this is due to the preference given by Windows to load dll's from the same >> directory where the program is resident instead of using the ones in the PATH > > yes, this is expected behavior. What is not expected is that the locati

RE: Unexpected behavior of ~ when calling bash from a different cygwin installation

2018-06-16 Thread Soegtrop, Michael
Dear Marco, > this is due to the preference given by Windows to load dll's from the same > directory where the program is resident instead of using the ones in the PATH yes, this is expected behavior. What is not expected is that the location of the system root in the Windows file system does no

Re: Unexpected behavior of ~ when calling bash from a different cygwin installation

2018-06-16 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 6/15/2018 3:32 PM, Soegtrop, Michael wrote: Dear Cygwin Users, I got it, I just have to clear the HOME variable before. But I have a few more observations on this: the FAQ (section 4.20) state that the root path for the mount table depends on the path of the cygwin1.dll, to which an execut

RE: Unexpected behavior of ~ when calling bash from a different cygwin installation

2018-06-16 Thread Soegtrop, Michael
Dear Andrey, > The mapping is consistent throughout the execution tree. I would like to understand the underlying mechanism. The documentation (FAQ section 4.20) states (as far as I understand) that the Windows path of the Cygwin system root an executable sees is the parent directory of the fol

Re: Unexpected behavior of ~ when calling bash from a different cygwin installation

2018-06-15 Thread Andrey Repin
installations. At best, nothing will work, at worst, you'll get unpredictable behavior that is hard to track down. Each Cygwin installation have its own rebase map. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Saturday, June 16, 2018 2:34:34 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem re

RE: Unexpected behavior of ~ when calling bash from a different cygwin installation

2018-06-15 Thread Soegtrop, Michael
Dear Cygwin Users, I got it, I just have to clear the HOME variable before. But I have a few more observations on this: the FAQ (section 4.20) state that the root path for the mount table depends on the path of the cygwin1.dll, to which an executable is linked. This doesn't seem to be the case

Unexpected behavior of ~ when calling bash from a different cygwin installation

2018-06-15 Thread Soegtrop, Michael
Dear Cygwin users, I have several Cygwin installation for different purposes (think of it as light weight VMs). I observe an unexpected behavior of ~ when I call a bash from one Cygwin from a bash of another Cygwin. The procedure is as follows: *I have a Cygwin in C:\bin\cygwinA

RE: How portable (relocatable) is a Cygwin installation?

2018-05-10 Thread Soegtrop, Michael
Dear Andy, here you can find a batch file, which sets up a Cygwin from scratch with a defined set of packages: https://github.com/coq/coq/blob/master/dev/build/windows/MakeCoq_MinGW.bat The setup of Cygwin takes about 2 minutes and is without any user interaction. I would say, this is a more r

Re: How portable (relocatable) is a Cygwin installation?

2018-05-10 Thread Achim Gratz
t the "easy" qualification you put there. > Someone has an idea of installing all the necessary packages and zip > the whole Cygwin installation directory and distribute the resulting > archive. Yes, there's always someone with an idea and no, I don't blame them. I've on

Re: How portable (relocatable) is a Cygwin installation?

2018-05-09 Thread R0b0t1
On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 7:08 PM, Andy Li wrote: > Hi, > > We are looking for an easy way to distribute an OCaml development > enviroment based on Cygwin. Someone has an idea of installing all the > necessary packages and zip the whole Cygwin installation directory and > distri

Re: How portable (relocatable) is a Cygwin installation?

2018-05-09 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2018-05-09 18:08, Andy Li wrote: > We are looking for an easy way to distribute an OCaml development > enviroment based on Cygwin. Someone has an idea of installing all the > necessary packages and zip the whole Cygwin installation directory and > distribute the resulting archiv

How portable (relocatable) is a Cygwin installation?

2018-05-09 Thread Andy Li
Hi, We are looking for an easy way to distribute an OCaml development enviroment based on Cygwin. Someone has an idea of installing all the necessary packages and zip the whole Cygwin installation directory and distribute the resulting archive. Is it a good idea? Is the installation path written

Re: cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 when running with --quite-mode

2017-12-20 Thread n8tm via cygwin
: Re: cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 when running with --quite-mode I have little doubt that here is a bug in the Cygwin installer. I reproduce the problem consistently. I use the following command 10 times setup-x86.exe -q -s http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com The setup fails one time of t

Re: cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 when running with --quite-mode

2017-12-20 Thread Jon Turney
On 20/12/2017 12:43, Arkady wrote: I can upload VirtualBox VM which demonstrates the problem - this is 14GB image for VirtualBox 5.1.30 Please don't. In any case, you might wish to consult the license you have for Windows to see if you are permitted to do this... On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 2:

Re: cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 when running with --quite-mode

2017-12-20 Thread Arkady
I can upload VirtualBox VM which demonstrates the problem - this is 14GB image for VirtualBox 5.1.30 On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Arkady wrote: > Another clue - flags -d -n -N probably solve the problem or make the > problem very rare > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Arkady wrote: >> I h

Re: cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 when running with --quite-mode

2017-12-20 Thread Arkady
Another clue - flags -d -n -N probably solve the problem or make the problem very rare On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Arkady wrote: > I have little doubt that here is a bug in the Cygwin installer. I > reproduce the problem > consistently. I use the following command 10 times > setup-x86.exe -q

Re: cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 when running with --quite-mode

2017-12-20 Thread Arkady
I have little doubt that here is a bug in the Cygwin installer. I reproduce the problem consistently. I use the following command 10 times setup-x86.exe -q -s http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com The setup fails one time of three in my Win10 64 bits setup. On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Arkady wro

Re: cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 when running with --quite-mode

2017-12-20 Thread Arkady
On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Arkady writes: >> setup-x86_64.exe -q -p wget -v >> >> The installation fails with the last line "Changing gid to >> Administrators" and a small dialog box "setup-x86_64.exe" has stopped >> working A problem caused the program to stop working

Re: cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 when running with --quite-mode

2017-12-20 Thread Achim Gratz
Arkady writes: > Another update: the quite mode sometimes succeeds. I estimate that the > success rate is 30%. It rarely succeeds very first time. > > The problem is definitely not new. See, for example, > https://github.com/boxcutter/windows/blob/master/floppy/cygwin.bat#L50 > The batch start with

Re: cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 when running with --quite-mode

2017-12-20 Thread Achim Gratz
Arkady writes: > setup-x86_64.exe -q -p wget -v > > The installation fails with the last line "Changing gid to > Administrators" and a small dialog box "setup-x86_64.exe" has stopped > working A problem caused the program to stop working correctly..." That is usually caused by BLODA that recognize

Re: cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 when running with --quiet-mode

2017-12-19 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-12-19 01:37, Arkady wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 8:50 PM, Arkady wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 7:41 PM, Arkady wrote: >>> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 7:27 PM, Arkady wrote: I am trying to do: setup-x86_64.exe -q -p wget -v The installation fails with the last line "C

Re: cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 when running with --quite-mode

2017-12-19 Thread Arkady
For the sake of other desperate developers searching for a solution after 14 hours of work This line works (most of the time?): C:\Users\user\Downloads\setup-x86.exe -q -R C:\cygwin -s http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin -P "wget,screen,cat" -a x86 -v -B -d -n -N On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11

Re: cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 when running with --quite-mode

2017-12-19 Thread Arkady
This is the full log C:\Users\user\Downloads>C:\Users\user\Downloads\setup-x86.exe -q -R C:\cygwin -s http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com -P "wget,screen,cat" -a x86 -v C:\Users\user\Downloads>note: Hand installation over to elevated child process. Starting cygwin install, version 2.883 User has bac

Re: cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 when running with --quite-mode

2017-12-19 Thread Arkady
Another update: the quite mode sometimes succeeds. I estimate that the success rate is 30%. It rarely succeeds very first time. The problem is definitely not new. See, for example, https://github.com/boxcutter/windows/blob/master/floppy/cygwin.bat#L50 The batch start with rather encouraging "Force

Re: cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 when running with --quite-mode

2017-12-18 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-12-18 11:50, Arkady wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 7:41 PM, Arkady wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 7:27 PM, Arkady wrote: >>> I am trying to do: >>> setup-x86_64.exe -q -p wget -v >>> The installation fails with the last line "Changing gid to >>> Administrators" and a small dialog box "

Re: cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 when running with --quite-mode

2017-12-18 Thread Arkady
Reproduced again with Autounattend.xml My goal is to prepare a Windows machine with Cygwin installed. I am trying to script the process. I have the following section the Autounattend.xml file cmd.exe /c C:\Windows\Temp\setup-x86.exe -q -R C:\cygwin -l C:\Windo

Re: cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 when running with --quite-mode

2017-12-18 Thread Arkady
Ok, I have figured it out setup-x86_64.exe -p "wget,screen" -q -R C:\cygwin -s http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 8:07 PM, Arkady wrote: > The following command on a clean Windows 10 virtual machine > setup-x86_64.exe -p wget,screen -q -R C:\cygwin -s > http://cygwin.mirror

Re: cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 when running with --quite-mode

2017-12-18 Thread Arkady
The following command on a clean Windows 10 virtual machine setup-x86_64.exe -p wget,screen -q -R C:\cygwin -s http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com completes fine, sets the icon on the desktop. When I open the cygwin terminal and try commands wget or screen I am getting "command not found" Indeed fold

Re: cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 when running with --quite-mode

2017-12-18 Thread Arkady
I tried again on the clean Windows VM setup-x86_64.exe -q -B -R C:\Users\user\Downloads -s http://cygwin/mirror/constant.com After that I tried setup-x86_64.exe -q -B -R C:\Users\user\Downloads -s http://cygwin/mirror/constant.com -p wget,screen Both worked. Looks like my bad On Mon, Dec 18,

cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 when running with --quite-mode

2017-12-18 Thread Arkady
Hi, I am trying to do: setup-x86_64.exe -q -p wget -v The installation fails with the last line "Changing gid to Administrators" and a small dialog box "setup-x86_64.exe" has stopped working A problem caused the program to stop working correctly..." I tried setup-x86_64.exe -q -p wget -v -B and

Re: How to specify the user directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin (installation folder)?

2017-09-09 Thread Kptain
I suggest to reuse Windows environment variable: $USERPROFILE Just redefine new home directory: setenv HOME $USERPROFILE/home (for example if you expect a folder outside cygwin folder itself) -- Sent from: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Cygwin-list-f3.html -- Problem reports:

Re: How to specify the user directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin (installation folder)?

2017-09-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
[top-posting fixed] On Sep 9 10:31, Jürgen Wagner wrote: > On 09.09.2017 09:53, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > On 09/09/2017 07:06, Ben Stover via cygwin wrote: > >> By default the user folder of Cygwin (under Win7) is in a subdirectory > >> > >> \home\ > > > > from cygwin point of view "/home/" > > > >

Re: How to specify the user directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin (installation folder)?

2017-09-09 Thread Jürgen Wagner
Hi,   of course, you could change something in /etc/passwd to define a new home directory. However, it is good to have the convention of home directories being under one root (at least for non-administrative accounts). Therefore, my preferred solution is to make a symbolic link. /home/USER => /cyg

Re: How to specify the user directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin (installation folder)?

2017-09-09 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 09/09/2017 07:06, Ben Stover via cygwin wrote: By default the user folder of Cygwin (under Win7) is in a subdirectory \home\ from cygwin point of view "/home/" How can I put it into a separate directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin? Example: I installed Cygwin in D:\tools\cygwin\v2\ and want to

How to specify the user directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin (installation folder)?

2017-09-08 Thread Ben Stover via cygwin
By default the user folder of Cygwin (under Win7) is in a subdirectory \home\ How can I put it into a separate directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin? Example: I installed Cygwin in D:\tools\cygwin\v2\ and want to put my (resp. all) home directories into D:\tools\cygwin\myhome\ If possible I would lik

Re: Cygwin installation issues with Powerbroker

2017-04-08 Thread Achim Gratz
Akshay Belle writes: > I am trying to use cygwin on my office laptop, which as a software > called powerbroker that provide admin privileges for installation of > third party software like cygwin. Powerbroker has worked well with all > other software installations, however cygwin is not installing

Re: Stuck with incomplete Cygwin installation

2017-02-10 Thread Daniel Friedman
Marco, Thanks VERY much for explaining I have a BLODA interference issue and suggesting I try using safe mode--I did, and now I have a complete Cygwin installation. I still have to work on the "fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable" issue, which I may not be able to resolve,

Re: Stuck with incomplete Cygwin installation

2017-02-09 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 09/02/2017 08:44, Daniel Friedman wrote: Quick summary: I'm stuck being unable to achieve a working Cygwin installation on a machine that formerly had one. attempts always yield errors of the following kind (the numbers, other than "errno 11", vary): --- begin typica

Stuck with incomplete Cygwin installation

2017-02-08 Thread Daniel Friedman
Quick summary: I'm stuck being unable to achieve a working Cygwin installation on a machine that formerly had one. I recently tried to update Cygwin packages using setup, and developed the "bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable" issue which many online posts indicat

Re: Command switches to remove categories of packages from an existing Cygwin installation

2016-11-02 Thread Keith Christian
On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 7:41 AM, Jon Turney wrote: > On 01/11/2016 13:04, Keith Christian wrote: >> >> On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Keith Christian wrote: >>> >>> While I use a few X11 packages, I find that I don't need the KDE or >>> GNOME categories. >>> >>> Are the command line switches to

Re: Command switches to remove categories of packages from an existing Cygwin installation

2016-11-01 Thread Jon Turney
On 01/11/2016 13:04, Keith Christian wrote: On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Keith Christian wrote: While I use a few X11 packages, I find that I don't need the KDE or GNOME categories. Are the command line switches to remove KDE and GNOME the following? setup-x86.exe -c GNOME -c KDE Sadl

Re: Command switches to remove categories of packages from an existing Cygwin installation

2016-11-01 Thread Keith Christian
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Keith Christian wrote: > While I use a few X11 packages, I find that I don't need the KDE or > GNOME categories. > > Are the command line switches to remove KDE and GNOME the following? > > setup-x86.exe -c GNOME -c KDE > > Is there a setup-x86.exe switch to avo

Command switches to remove categories of packages from an existing Cygwin installation

2016-10-29 Thread Keith Christian
While I use a few X11 packages, I find that I don't need the KDE or GNOME categories. Are the command line switches to remove KDE and GNOME the following? setup-x86.exe -c GNOME -c KDE Is there a setup-x86.exe switch to avoid downloading and installing GNOME and KDE categories so that a separa

Automated Cygwin installation on a Google VM

2016-10-04 Thread Nico Müller
Hey everyone! We are trying to set up an automated Cygwin install on a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM in the Google cloud. The idea is to build a script that makes sure Icinga is able to connect to the server via SSH, for monitoring reasons. Here is what we came up with: --- # Cygwin installation

Re: fresh cygwin installation

2016-08-08 Thread t s
: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: fresh cygwin installation   On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 11:31 AM, t s wrote: > I need to make a fresh installation of cywgin. The drive I propose to install > to is detailed in; > > http://www.cpm86.com/sdcard.jpg > > It's an NTFS drive with 238

Re: fresh cygwin installation

2016-08-07 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 11:31 AM, t s wrote: > I need to make a fresh installation of cywgin. The drive I propose to install > to is detailed in; > > http://www.cpm86.com/sdcard.jpg > > It's an NTFS drive with 238 GB capacity, allocation unit size 4096 bytes. I see no problem with the params thems

fresh cygwin installation

2016-08-07 Thread t s
s for a default Cygwin installation? Thank you. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Fw: initial cygwin installation

2015-11-04 Thread Mark Hansen
On 11/4/2015 12:45 PM, t s wrote: I would like a brief answer to the questions I posed several days ago, please. I am a newbie to Cygwin and need to understand exactly how to install this application. ​ What allocation unit size should I specify when formatting? ​ "Standard 4k or 8k if you d

Fw: initial cygwin installation

2015-11-04 Thread t s
I would like a brief answer to the questions I posed several days ago, please. I am a newbie to Cygwin and need to understand exactly how to install this application. ​ > What allocation unit size should I specify when formatting? ​ "Standard 4k or 8k if you don't expect to create tons of small f

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-30 Thread Duncan Roe
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 08:43:20AM +0100, Achim Gratz wrote: > Am 28.10.2015 um 21:38 schrieb Duncan Roe: > >As it happens, I also saw that message last night. I only wanted to > >*reinstall* > >everything I had installed previously, owing to AVG antivirus having deleted > >I > >don't know what.

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-29 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 28, 2015, at 8:49 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> I only wanted to *reinstall* >> everything I had installed previously > > Solution is to run `cygcheck --check-setup` and manually select any packages > reported incomplete for reinstall. This solution and Achim G

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-29 Thread Achim Gratz
Am 28.10.2015 um 21:38 schrieb Duncan Roe: As it happens, I also saw that message last night. I only wanted to *reinstall* everything I had installed previously, owing to AVG antivirus having deleted I don't know what. One way to do that (if you really want to re-install instead of running cyg

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-28 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Duncan Roe! > As it happens, I also saw that message last night. I only wanted to > *reinstall* > everything I had installed previously, owing to AVG antivirus having deleted I > don't know what. > I configured AVG to never look at C:\cygwin64 in future but was that the best > I > co

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-28 Thread t s
M To: Csaba Raduly; cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: initial cygwin installation   Greetings, Csaba Raduly! > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Warren Young  wrote: > (snip) >> >> This is why you don’t go telling Cygwin to install *everything*.  You don’t >> want everythin

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-28 Thread Duncan Roe
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:05:06AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On Oct 27, 2015, at 7:21 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > > > > From: Warren Young > >> > >> On Oct 25, 2015, at 3:11 PM, t s wrote: > >>> > >>> Q: How do I install everything? > >>> A: You do not want to do this! > >> > >> I explain this

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-28 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Csaba Raduly! > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Warren Young wrote: > (snip) >> >> This is why you don’t go telling Cygwin to install *everything*. You don’t >> want everything. > You can't have everything. Where would you put it? :) That's easy - I'd put it everywhere. -- With

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-28 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Warren Young wrote: (snip) > > This is why you don’t go telling Cygwin to install *everything*. You don’t > want everything. You can't have everything. Where would you put it? :) Csaba -- GCS a+ e++ d- C++ ULS$ L+$ !E- W++ P+++$ w++$ tv+ b++ DI D++ 5++ The Tao

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-27 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 28, 2015, at 12:05 AM, Warren Young wrote: > > You just asked setup.exe to install a whole bunch of software you do not > actually need, so when it starts asking you questions about what you want > done with this software, you are lost, because you don’t even know what the > software *i

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-27 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 27, 2015, at 7:21 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > > From: Warren Young >> >> On Oct 25, 2015, at 3:11 PM, t s wrote: >>> >>> Q: How do I install everything? >>> A: You do not want to do this! >> >> I explain this in more detail here: >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/a/21233990 > > For the

RE: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-27 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
From: Warren Young > > On Oct 25, 2015, at 3:11 PM, t s wrote: > > > > Q: How do I install everything? > > A: You do not want to do this! > > I explain this in more detail here: > > http://stackoverflow.com/a/21233990 For the hell of it I decided to check out this hidden feature. What I got

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-26 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 25, 2015, at 3:11 PM, t s wrote: > > Q: How do I install everything? > A: You do not want to do this! I explain this in more detail here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/21233990 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Docume

Fw: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-26 Thread t s
uot;curr" ? thanks for your advice == From: Andrey Repin Sent: Monday, October 26, 2015 8:02 AM To: t s; cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: initial cygwin installation   Greetings, t s! > I am making a fresh install of Cygwin on a Windows 7 machine. > The installation is to a 256 GB memo

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