sunrpc patch that fixes nfs-server initialization timeouts

2013-11-04 Thread George Prekas
This patch fixes the problem that is causing the following error message: Cannot register service: RPC: Timed out rpcmisc.c 99 : unable to register The problem is described here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg00900.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-06/msg00304.html Sunrpc uses an

sunrpc patch that fixes nfs-server failure when reading files of specific sizes

2013-11-04 Thread George Prekas
Nfs-server occasionally fails when serving files of specific sizes. The Linux client reports an input/output error and the user has to umount and mount the NFS share in order to continue using it. The problem happens when the file's size is: 8192*k + 3896 or 8192*k + 3896 + 3996 where k =

Re: cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)

2013-11-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Shaddy, any news? Thanks, Corinna On Oct 15 18:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 16 02:18, Shaddy Baddah wrote: On 15/10/13 23:22, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 15 21:21, Shaddy Baddah wrote: On 15/10/13 20:08, Corinna Vinschen wrote: [...] thanks for letting us know and your

Re: [ITP] gl2ps-1.38-1

2013-11-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 1 10:34, marco atzeri wrote: http://www.geuz.org/gl2ps/ An OpenGL to PostScript printing library GL2PS is a C library providing high quality vector output for any OpenGL application. The main difference between GL2PS and other similar libraries is the use of sorting algorithms

Re: sunrpc patch that fixes nfs-server failure when reading files of specific sizes

2013-11-04 Thread marco atzeri
Il 11/4/2013 11:52 AM, George Prekas ha scritto: Nfs-server occasionally fails when serving files of specific sizes. The Linux client reports an input/output error and the user has to umount and mount the NFS share in order to continue using it. The problem happens when the file's size is:

Re: [ITP] cygcheck-leaves - a script to list installed packages not required by any

2013-11-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 31 12:34, Mikhail Usenko wrote: Thanks for the comment. I've forgotten to test the script on 32-bit Windows. Now it uses a bash-specific variable to determine the CPU type and should work OK. Also after some time of using I've completely rewritten it having added new functionality

Re: sunrpc patch that fixes nfs-server failure when reading files of specific sizes

2013-11-04 Thread Charles Wilson
On 11/4/2013 7:22 AM, marco atzeri wrote: Hi George, unfortunately the nfs-server is without a package maintainer http://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint Yes, but the patch is actually for sunrpc, of which I am (nominally) listed as the maintainer. There's an issue with sunrpc in general (I'll

Re: [ITP] cygcheck-leaves - a script to list installed packages not required by any

2013-11-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 01:39:25PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 31 12:34, Mikhail Usenko wrote: Thanks for the comment. I've forgotten to test the script on 32-bit Windows. Now it uses a bash-specific variable to determine the CPU type and should work OK. Also after some time of

Re: [ITP] cygcheck-leaves - a script to list installed packages not required by any

2013-11-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 4 12:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 01:39:25PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 31 12:34, Mikhail Usenko wrote: Thanks for the comment. I've forgotten to test the script on 32-bit Windows. Now it uses a bash-specific variable to determine the CPU type

Re: [ITP] cygcheck-leaves - a script to list installed packages not required by any

2013-11-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 06:54:03PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 4 12:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 01:39:25PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 31 12:34, Mikhail Usenko wrote: Thanks for the comment. I've forgotten to test the script on 32-bit Windows.