Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Marco, On Mar 11 21:55, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 10/03/2014 11:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote: built from CVS. No crash either. Corinna Hi Corinna, I think it is due to the unusual history of my cygwin installation, that is triggering a corner case. The system is installed on a USB

Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-12 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 12/03/2014 10:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: thanks for tracking this down. Still, it shouldn't result in a Bad address error, only in a GID value -1. Pity that you fixed it, otherwise your machine would be a wonderful guinea pig :} Thanks, Corinna That Bad address file is still

Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 12 10:35, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 12/03/2014 10:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: thanks for tracking this down. Still, it shouldn't result in a Bad address error, only in a GID value -1. Pity that you fixed it, otherwise your machine would be a wonderful guinea pig :} Thanks,

Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-12 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 12/03/2014 10:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 12 10:35, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 12/03/2014 10:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: And the USB disk is full of similar files I just noticed that the 64bit is also available $ cd /cygdrive/e/cygwin64/var/log $ ls -l ls: cannot access xwin: Bad

Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 12 11:09, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 12/03/2014 10:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 12 10:35, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 12/03/2014 10:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: And the USB disk is full of similar files I just noticed that the 64bit is also available $ cd

Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-11 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 10/03/2014 11:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 10 07:46, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 10/03/2014 04:21, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 09:25:02PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Interesting problem. Windows always

Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-10 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 10/03/2014 04:21, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 09:25:02PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Interesting problem. Windows always surprises. This should be fixed in the upcoming snapshot. cgf $ uname -svr

Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 10 07:46, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 10/03/2014 04:21, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 09:25:02PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Interesting problem. Windows always surprises. This should be fixed in the

Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-10 Thread Bengt Larsson
Christopher Faylor wrote: There is a new snapshot available which should fix the problem with screen status bar. There are still issues with the console buffer and full screen apps like vim/emacs/less. If you scroll the buffer while in that mode then things will get weird. The solution so far

Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 03:26:33PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 07:14:49PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Christopher Faylor (Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:11:39 -0500) I forgot to mention that I managed to duplicate this problem and am working on a fix for this and the other

Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 03:14:32PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 03:26:33PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 07:14:49PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Christopher Faylor (Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:11:39 -0500) I forgot to mention that I managed to

Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-09 Thread Steven Penny
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: There are still issues with the console buffer and full screen apps like vim/emacs/less. If you scroll the buffer while in that mode then things will get weird. The solution so far is: Don't do that. 1. man bash 2. down arrow once 3.

Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

2014-03-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 09:25:02PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: There are still issues with the console buffer and full screen apps like vim/emacs/less. If you scroll the buffer while in that mode then things will get weird. The solution

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-28 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Christopher Faylor (Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:26:33 -0500) On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 07:14:49PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Christopher Faylor (Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:11:39 -0500) I forgot to mention that I managed to duplicate this problem and am working on a fix for this and the other screen

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-27 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Christopher Faylor (Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:11:39 -0500) I forgot to mention that I managed to duplicate this problem and am working on a fix for this and the other screen garbling seen in recent snapshots. Reporting a possibly related bug in connection with the latest snapshots: connecting to

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 07:14:49PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Christopher Faylor (Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:11:39 -0500) I forgot to mention that I managed to duplicate this problem and am working on a fix for this and the other screen garbling seen in recent snapshots. Reporting a possibly

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 21 11:49, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Thomas Wolff! Not specific to this snapshot but it happens when trying to test it: If a cygwin console is started from a cygwin terminal (e.g. in mintty: cygstart /Cygwin.bat), the TERM variable is set incorrectly. Suggested fix: ... unset

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-21 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! Not specific to this snapshot but it happens when trying to test it: If a cygwin console is started from a cygwin terminal (e.g. in mintty: cygstart /Cygwin.bat), the TERM variable is set incorrectly. Suggested fix: ... unset TERM to Cygwin.bat. unset would

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 04:17:11PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: Not specific to this snapshot but it happens when trying to test it: If a cygwin console is started from a cygwin terminal (e.g. in mintty: cygstart /Cygwin.bat), the TERM variable is set incorrectly. Suggested fix: ... unset

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 03:52:37PM +0100, Bengt Larsson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:52:58PM +0100, Bengt Larsson wrote: I start a console window, set the buffer to 1100 lines, display a lot in it. Start bash, type ^L: the console window resizes to be only one line.

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-20 Thread Andrew Schulman
I forgot to mention that I managed to duplicate this problem and am working on a fix for this and the other screen garbling seen in recent snapshots. Hm, with luck maybe that will also fix the recent garbled screen problem in screen(1): http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-01/msg00223.html

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 02:30:50PM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: I forgot to mention that I managed to duplicate this problem and am working on a fix for this and the other screen garbling seen in recent snapshots. Hm, with luck maybe that will also fix the recent garbled screen problem in

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-20 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 20.02.2014 02:26, schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, Thomas Wolff! Not specific to this snapshot but it happens when trying to test it: If a cygwin console is started from a cygwin terminal (e.g. in mintty: cygstart /Cygwin.bat), the TERM variable is set incorrectly. Suggested fix: ... unset

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-20 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Thomas Wolff! Not specific to this snapshot but it happens when trying to test it: If a cygwin console is started from a cygwin terminal (e.g. in mintty: cygstart /Cygwin.bat), the TERM variable is set incorrectly. Suggested fix: ... unset TERM to Cygwin.bat. unset would be better

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-19 Thread Bengt Larsson
Christopher Faylor wrote: We are contemplating releasing an interim 1.7.29 which does not incorporate Corinna's revamping of Cygwin's uid/gid handling. So, please check out snapshots, paying particular attention to the non-passwd/group parts of this file:

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:52:58PM +0100, Bengt Larsson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: We are contemplating releasing an interim 1.7.29 which does not incorporate Corinna's revamping of Cygwin's uid/gid handling. So, please check out snapshots, paying particular attention to the

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-19 Thread Bengt Larsson
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:52:58PM +0100, Bengt Larsson wrote: I start a console window, set the buffer to 1100 lines, display a lot in it. Start bash, type ^L: the console window resizes to be only one line. Same result if bash was started first, then display data, then

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-19 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 18.02.2014 20:08, schrieb Christopher Faylor: We are contemplating releasing an interim 1.7.29 which does not incorporate Corinna's revamping of Cygwin's uid/gid handling. So, please check out snapshots, paying particular attention to the non-passwd/group parts of this file:

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-19 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Thomas Wolff! Not specific to this snapshot but it happens when trying to test it: If a cygwin console is started from a cygwin terminal (e.g. in mintty: cygstart /Cygwin.bat), the TERM variable is set incorrectly. Suggested fix: ... unset TERM to Cygwin.bat. unset would be

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-19 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 19.02.2014 23:24, schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, Thomas Wolff! Not specific to this snapshot but it happens when trying to test it: If a cygwin console is started from a cygwin terminal (e.g. in mintty: cygstart /Cygwin.bat), the TERM variable is set incorrectly. Suggested fix: ... unset

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-19 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Thomas Wolff! Not specific to this snapshot but it happens when trying to test it: If a cygwin console is started from a cygwin terminal (e.g. in mintty: cygstart /Cygwin.bat), the TERM variable is set incorrectly. Suggested fix: ... unset TERM to Cygwin.bat. unset would be better

Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
We are contemplating releasing an interim 1.7.29 which does not incorporate Corinna's revamping of Cygwin's uid/gid handling. So, please check out snapshots, paying particular attention to the non-passwd/group parts of this file: