I am having install problems under XP: Setup.exe seems to go into an
endless loop while looking for setup.ini.
Here's what happened: We've bundled a new major release of Singular;
it's our release 3-1-0. (The current Singular packages in cygwin are
version 3-0-4.) Some two weeks ago I made
Hi,
I am running windows XP SP2 and I am trying to install Cygwin. Whenever
I use the setup.exe to install fromt eh web it will download the
packageas I have chosen, then it wil get to 99% and will give the
message Setup.exe has encountered a problem and needs to quit The same
thing happens
Brian Dessent - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dave Korn wrote:
and there is of course no such file as
/usr/bin/ssmtp-config^M. Solution:
ls -l $(cygcheck -l ssmtp | d2u)
...which is precisely what cygcheck -c ssmtp does.
Specifically, it prints OK if all the files are present.
But this
are you sure that /usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe doesn't exist?
Shai
On Jan 24, 2008 12:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brian Dessent - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dave Korn wrote:
and there is of course no such file as
/usr/bin/ssmtp-config^M. Solution:
ls -l $(cygcheck -l ssmtp | d2u)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried to get mail from my cron jobs, so I like to make a link from
ssmt to sendmail. But there ist no file installed.
What exactly do you mean by there is no file installed and how did you
come to this conclusion? Did you run ssmtp-config? It will set
everything up
Brian Dessent - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried to get mail from my cron jobs, so I like to make a link from
ssmt to sendmail. But there ist no file installed.
What exactly do you mean by there is no file installed and
how did you come to this conclusion? Did
What did the mail from Dave say? Sahre with us :)
On Jan 24, 2008 3:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brian Dessent - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried to get mail from my cron jobs, so I like to make a link from
ssmt to sendmail. But there ist no file installed.
On 24 January 2008 14:31, Shai wrote:
What did the mail from Dave say? Sahre with us :)
It saidRGH PLEASE TRIM THE QUOTES IN YOUR REPLIES BECAUSE 99% OF
YOUR EMAIL IS IRRELEVANT DUPLICATED GARBAGE 1!
;-)
Actually, it was
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-01/msg00456.html
Hi folks,
I have a problem with installing ssmtp. I tried to reinstall ssmtp but
it doesn't help. When I check the status of the package it sayes OK.
Doesn't that mean that all files of the package are installed. But when
I try to list the files of the package no file is found.
How could I fix
On 23 January 2008 12:51, cygwin.20.maillinglist wrote:
I have a problem with installing ssmtp. I tried to reinstall ssmtp but
it doesn't help. When I check the status of the package it sayes OK.
Doesn't that mean that all files of the package are installed. But when
I try to list the files
Dave Korn wrote:
and there is of course no such file as /usr/bin/ssmtp-config^M. Solution:
ls -l $(cygcheck -l ssmtp | d2u)
...which is precisely what cygcheck -c ssmtp does. Specifically, it
prints OK if all the files are present.
But this is all a red herring. You said you have some
Completely agree about Vista, it's ruined my life, but are you sure you
waited long enough for gnuplot.sh to complete? For no clear reason that
I can discern, it takes ages on both the machines I use regularly, one
of which is in all other contexts really fast.
Fergus
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Kris Ciersezwski wrote:
Ok I sent a log of my setup, I was unable to cygcheck -s -r -v and
*attach* the output.
No 'setup.log' or 'setup.log.full' files in the directory with 'setup.exe'?
What part of creating the 'cygcheck' information caused you problems?
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Hello, I've tried several times to install Cygwin on my new desktop,
running shitty Windows Vista Home Premium. Anyways I've tried
installing it several times using different mirrors each time and I
get the same problem in every install.
It stops at
Running...
No Package
Kris Ciersezwski wrote:
Hello, I've tried several times to install Cygwin on my new desktop,
running shitty Windows Vista Home Premium. Anyways I've tried
installing it several times using different mirrors each time and I
get the same problem in every install.
It stops at
Running...
No
Ok I sent a log of my setup, I was unable to cygcheck -s -r -v and
*attach* the output.
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Kris Ciersezwski wrote:
Hello, I've tried several times to install Cygwin on my new desktop,
running shitty Windows Vista Home Premium. Anyways I've tried
* Evan Cooch (2005-09-10 22:08 +0100)
After 2-3 hours googling for insights, and thoroughly reading what
was available, I've decided to stop beating my head against the wall,
and ask here.
Basically, trying to get sshd installed as a service under WinXP Pro
-SP2. Trying the install as a
2. modifed the env variables by adding a variable named CYGWIN with
value ntsec tty
Not necessary.
Then why is it specified in http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html
3. added c:\cygwin\bin to the PATH
Not necessary.
As above - if not, then why specify it in
Evan Cooch wrote:
2. modifed the env variables by adding a variable named CYGWIN with
value ntsec tty
Not necessary.
Then why is it specified in
http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html
Because that web page is wrong, that's why.
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Evan Cooch wrote:
2. modifed the env variables by adding a variable named CYGWIN with
value ntsec tty
Not necessary.
Then why is it specified in
http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html
3. added c:\cygwin\bin to the PATH
Not necessary.
As above - if not, then why
As above - if not, then why specify it in
http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html
That page is made by somebody that is not in the Cygwin team, it may
be correct
or not (the points marked as not necessary by Thorsten are really not
necessary but they don't interfere) but you are
Follow the instructions in C:\Cygwin\usr\share\doc\Cygwin\openssh.README, that
is the official documentation.
OK - have now gone through said README twice. Somewhat helpful, but
largely obtuse in places.
e.g., If you start sshd as deamon via cygrunsrv.exe you MUST give the
-D option to
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 04:12:28PM -0400, Evan Cooch wrote:
Follow the instructions in
C:\Cygwin\usr\share\doc\Cygwin\openssh.README, that is the official
documentation.
OK - have now gone through said README twice. Somewhat helpful, but
largely obtuse in places.
You probably need to uninstall
Evan Cooch wrote:
[snip]
OK - have now gone through said README twice. Somewhat helpful, but
largely obtuse in places.
e.g., If you start sshd as deamon via cygrunsrv.exe you MUST give the
-D option to sshd. Otherwise the service can't get started at all.
Meaning, what? You pass -D as an
Other than that, look at your event log and see if there is any further
information about the failed service startup.
Nothing...
Nothing? On a working sshd service I get the start and stop events.
If it was working, I wouldn't be bothering the list with this! ;-)
[snip]
OK - now
After 2-3 hours googling for insights, and thoroughly reading what
was available, I've decided to stop beating my head against the wall,
and ask here.
Basically, trying to get sshd installed as a service under WinXP Pro
-SP2. Trying the install as a user who has full admin privelages on
the
Folks,
I have tried to install Cygwin numerous times on XP professional
version 2002 Service Pack 2.
I have tried to install the base plus other individual packages but
finally just tried the default install.
I've tried it for all users and just me, I've tried it for both Unix and
DOS
Original Message
From: Keith Weintraub
Sent: 13 June 2005 15:40
---snip!---
I have tried to install Cygwin numerous times on XP professional
version 2002 Service Pack 2.
Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Dave Korn
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:11 AM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: RE: Install problems on XP with setup.exe
Original Message
From: Keith Weintraub
Sent: 13 June 2005 15:40
-
From: Keith Weintraub
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:24 AM
To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
Subject: RE: Install problems on XP with setup.exe
Dave,
Thanks for the reply. I tried a couple of different mirrors
(sorry I didn't put that in my original post.
The last one I tried was http
I'm attempting to install wxPython from the source wxPythonSrc-2.5.2.7
on Cygwin.
I am able to run 'configure' ok, but when I run the make file i get
the following error:
In file included from include/wx/gsocket.h:172,
from include/wx/sckaddr.h:24,
from
At 10:10 PM 8/25/2004, you wrote:
I'm attempting to install wxPython from the source wxPythonSrc-2.5.2.7
on Cygwin.
I am able to run 'configure' ok, but when I run the make file i get
the following error:
In file included from include/wx/gsocket.h:172,
from
Denny Figuerres wrote:
Some further testing shows that many of the .tiff files seem to be corrupt!
When looking at the files in
C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\share\WindowMaker\Icons
With paintshoppro
Version 8
Most of the .tiff files are duplicated with .xpm and or .png versions that
look
Denny Figuerres wrote:
Ok I HOPE this is not too much of a nube question but here goes:
I have been using Linux for over 5 years with few problems.
I have a laptop with Windows 2000 Pro and current service packs etc.
I ran the current (as of yesterday) Cygwin setup with all the standard
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Alexander Gottwald
Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 6:33 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: new install problems
Denny Figuerres wrote:
Some further testing shows that many
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Denny Figuerres wrote:
Ok I HOPE this is not too much of a nube question but here goes:
I have been using Linux for over 5 years with few problems.
I have a laptop with Windows 2000 Pro and current service packs etc.
I ran the current
Ok I HOPE this is not too much of a nube question but here goes:
I have been using Linux for over 5 years with few problems.
I have a laptop with Windows 2000 Pro and current service packs etc.
I ran the current (as of yesterday) Cygwin setup with all the standard
stuff.
The included X
2. Shouldn't cygwin use something like
$My_Documents
as it's home? This is mostly on a local drive for
all
windows installs.
Cygwin uses for your home directory whatever Windows
says
is your home directory. Cygwin gets this from
'/etc/passwd'.
If you do a 'mkpasswd -d -u your
At 12:58 PM 4/7/2004, you wrote:
2. Shouldn't cygwin use something like
$My_Documents
as it's home? This is mostly on a local drive for
all
windows installs.
Cygwin uses for your home directory whatever Windows
says
is your home directory. Cygwin gets this from
'/etc/passwd'.
Larry,
Thanks for all the help. Sorry to keep beating this
subject down, but I hope this can be my last question.
What problems will I have with simply changing the
path for my home dir in /etc/passwd?
Do I have to use the mkpasswd cmd that you showed
below?
Thanks,
Erik
--- Larry Hall
You can edit the file directly if you prefer. I was just trying to
provide you with a mechanism which would allow you to regenerate your
/etc/passwd file in the future without needing to re-edit it each time.
But if that's not a concern for you, just run your favorite editor and
have at it! ;-)
-Original Message-
From: Larry Hall
Sent: 01 April 2004 22:35
At 03:43 PM 4/1/2004, you wrote:
FYI. Problem solved!
Hooray!
I have a few questions.
1. $HOMEDRIVE for me is on a network share is this
going to be a problem?
Not if that's where you want it. Generally,
I have a very strange cygwin problem.
Background. I have been using cygwin without problem
for 2 years. Yesterday I needed/wanted to use the
uptime cmd. I didn't have it so I downloaded the
setup program and tried to add it. I had a number of
problems getting it installed so I decieded to
-Original Message-
From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Erik Weibust
Sent: 01 April 2004 15:32
I'm not sure what or why it's trying to do with an h:
drive. I have a local c and d drive, and I have i and
s network drives, and a z samba mount. I did have an
h drive in the past, but with
Dave,
Where might those ENV settings be hiding? Any ideas?
I followed the uninstall instructions exactly.
Erik
--- Dave Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-Original Message-
From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Erik Weibust
Sent: 01 April 2004 15:32
I'm not sure what or why it's trying
-Original Message-
From: Erik Weibust
Sent: 01 April 2004 16:11
Dave,
Where might those ENV settings be hiding? Any ideas?
I followed the uninstall instructions exactly.
Erik
These are your windoze environment vars I'm referring to; you can see them
by right clicking on
Dave,
I'm very familiar with setting Env vars in windows. I
checked that. Nothing there. Then I opened a cmd
prompt and ran set | more and found this:
HOMEDRIVE=H:
HOMEPATH=\
HOMESHARE=\\dalfss02\erikweibust$
Those vars aren't visible through the My Computer gui
view? Any idea where they
-Original Message-
From: Erik Weibust
Sent: 01 April 2004 16:28
Dave,
I'm very familiar with setting Env vars in windows. I
checked that. Nothing there. Then I opened a cmd
prompt and ran set | more and found this:
HOMEDRIVE=H:
HOMEPATH=\
At 10:33 AM 4/1/2004, you wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Erik Weibust
Sent: 01 April 2004 16:28
Dave,
I'm very familiar with setting Env vars in windows. I
checked that. Nothing there. Then I opened a cmd
prompt and ran set | more and found this:
HOMEDRIVE=H:
FYI. Problem solved!
Our NT_Services group here changed some start-up
scripts which were setting $HOMEDRIVE. I just had to
re-map that drive and cygwin started up correctly.
I have a few questions.
1. $HOMEDRIVE for me is on a network share is this
going to be a problem?
2. Shouldn't
At 03:43 PM 4/1/2004, you wrote:
FYI. Problem solved!
Our NT_Services group here changed some start-up
scripts which were setting $HOMEDRIVE. I just had to
re-map that drive and cygwin started up correctly.
I have a few questions.
1. $HOMEDRIVE for me is on a network share is this
going to
George,
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 12:15:36AM -0500, George Rypysc III wrote:
I finally got a chance to upgrade to the 1.3.19-1 cygwin1.dll and
the mmap error has disappeared!
I'm glad that my WAG panned out. It seems like Corinna bagged two apps
(vsFTPd and Apache) for the price of one! :,)
Jason,
I finally got a chance to upgrade to the 1.3.19-1 cygwin1.dll and
the mmap error has disappeared! Apache 1.3.24-5 is working fine
along with PHP 4.2.0 on WinXP Home SP-1. Cygwin is pretty impressive -
I've showed it to people at work and they can't believe it.
Great job guys.
George,
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:17:26AM -0500, George Rypysc III wrote:
I've sucessfully used the build of apache (1.3.24) that came with
Cygwin on Windows 2000 (SP-2) but I've struggled getting it to work on
Windows XP (SP-1) using the same install files. I've read previous
posts about
I've sucessfully used the build of apache (1.3.24) that came with Cygwin
on Windows 2000 (SP-2) but I've struggled getting it to work on Windows
XP (SP-1) using the same install files. I've read previous posts about
the rebasing issue and they have helped get me past that error, but I
still
Bill,
Any user that belongs to group Administrators will do.
William Joye wrote:
I'm unable to install and run cygwin 1.3.18-1 unless I'm logged in as
'administrator'. If I try to run cygwin logged in as another user, I get the
console window, but it appears to hang. I've tried both a clean
I'm unable to install and run cygwin 1.3.18-1 unless I'm logged in as
'administrator'. If I try to run cygwin logged in as another user, I get the
console window, but it appears to hang. I've tried both a clean 'default'
installation and a clean 'all' installation. I'm running Win2k. My
I have attempted several installs to a Win2k system of the cygwin-ports
using setup.exe on the GNU cd. I keep getting an unexpected end of file
error on ex.exe and then wget.mo And then I am thrown out. It says it
creates a log but I am unable to find it.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Jim Furey
At 12:35 PM 5/21/2002, Jim Furey wrote:
I have attempted several installs to a Win2k system of the cygwin-ports
using setup.exe on the GNU cd. I keep getting an unexpected end of file
error on ex.exe and then wget.mo And then I am thrown out. It says it
creates a log but I am unable to find it.
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:35:50PM -0400, Jim Furey wrote:
I have attempted several installs to a Win2k system of the cygwin-ports
using setup.exe on the GNU cd. I keep getting an unexpected end of file
error on ex.exe and then wget.mo And then I am thrown out. It says it
creates a log but I am
At 12:58 PM 5/21/2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:35:50PM -0400, Jim Furey wrote:
I have attempted several installs to a Win2k system of the cygwin-ports
using setup.exe on the GNU cd. I keep getting an unexpected end of file
error on ex.exe and then wget.mo And then
No comments on this at all ?
PT Ok, found it - its canonicalize_version() in version.cc. There is
PT a pointer 'v' which is modified and then delete[]'d.
PT A trivial patch is attached :)
PT 2002-04-10 Pavel Tsekov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PT * version.cc (canonicalize_version): Fix a
Please, ignore this - I was too speedy to type :( Just saw that a new
version was released
Friday, April 12, 2002, 10:02:37 AM, you wrote:
PT No comments on this at all ?
-Original Message-
From: Cliff Hones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 02:24 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.3.10 Setup.exe 2.194.2.22 Install Problems With
MSVCRT.DLL and source code on Win98
Two major problems (summary):
1. Setup.exe
Install Problems With
MSVCRT.DLL and source code on Win98
Hello, there! :)
Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 10:11:46 AM, you wrote:
Ok, found it - its canonicalize_version() in version.cc. There is
a pointer 'v' which is modified and then delete[]'d.
A trivial patch is attached :)
2002-04-10 Pavel Tsekov
Hello, there! :)
Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 10:11:46 AM, you wrote:
Ok, found it - its canonicalize_version() in version.cc. There is
a pointer 'v' which is modified and then delete[]'d.
A trivial patch is attached :)
2002-04-10 Pavel Tsekov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* version.cc
Two major problems (summary):
1. Setup.exe (2.194.2.22) ends with a invalid page fault against MSVCRT.DLL
(details below) on my Windows 98 machine, before complely fininshing the
install.
Your copy of MSVCRT.DLL may be out of date. The one originally issued with
W98 is likely to be too
Two major problems (summary):
1. Setup.exe (2.194.2.22) ends with a invalid page fault against MSVCRT.DLL
(details below) on my Windows 98 machine, before complely fininshing the
install.
Your copy of MSVCRT.DLL may be out of date. The one originally issued with
W98 is likely to be too
Hello rjlpub,
Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 4:03:24 AM, you wrote:
rkrc Two major problems (summary):
rkrc 1. Setup.exe (2.194.2.22) ends with a invalid page fault against MSVCRT.DLL
rkrc (details below) on my Windows 98 machine, before complely fininshing the
rkrc install.
I have not
Apologies for previous duplicate post. Mail client problem.
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Hello, there! :)
Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 10:11:46 AM, you wrote:
Ok, found it - its canonicalize_version() in version.cc. There is
a pointer 'v' which is modified and then delete[]'d.
A trivial patch is attached :)
2002-04-10 Pavel Tsekov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* version.cc
Two major problems (summary):
1. Setup.exe (2.194.2.22) ends with a invalid page fault against MSVCRT.DLL
(details below) on my Windows 98 machine, before complely fininshing the
install.
2. I cannot install source files for any packages (using same setup.exe).
When installing source code, I
The new program (setup.exe vs. 2.194.2.15) looks great, but apparently in
the process to download file setup.ini, though all motions look successful,
the file is not stored to disk. After downloading the file, the setup.exe
program apparently attempts to open/read the file and the following
-Original Message-
From: Bill Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 8:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: cygwin install problems
The new program (setup.exe vs. 2.194.2.15) looks great, but
apparently in the process to download file setup.ini
Quoted from the BASH man page:
-z string
True if the length of string is zero.
This means that you have your HOME environment variable already
set.
Arek wrote:
I just installed cygwin today (after a long while of not having it
installed...) and when I started up bash I
I just installed cygwin today (after a long while of not having it
installed...) and when I started up bash I discovered that $HOME wasn't
being set correctly! After looking through the faq, I thought this might be
related to me having a windows login name with a space in it, so I edited
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