Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.
On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 11:20 -0500, George Barrick wrote: > I went and re-installed my antivirus so that its > files would be stored in a better directory. That has > fixed my problem, as the av still slips .dll's into the > execution stack when I run cygwin processes, but now > my system knows where everything can be found. Unfortunately Avast 5 is BLODA: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda Yaakov Cygwin/X -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.
On 2/27/2012 5:20 PM, George Barrick wrote: Subj: most recent xfig-3.5.2b-2 broken. 2012.02.27.16:18:08 UT I see no reason to re-install cygwin. It is purely a Avast problem Hi Marco, I went and re-installed my antivirus so that its files would be stored in a better directory. That has fixed my problem, as the av still slips .dll's into the execution stack when I run cygwin processes, but now my system knows where everything can be found. I tested the new octave. At first it crashed when I asked for plots, but then I did the: rebaseall -v Hi George if you see fork problem on the *.oct dll's of octave please try "rebaseall -s 'dll|so|oct'" from the ash-shell, and everything works. Both the latest xfig and the new octave-3.6.1 work as they should. Thank you for your patience. George you are welcome Marco -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.
Subj: most recent xfig-3.5.2b-2 broken. 2012.02.27.16:18:08 UT > > I see no reason to re-install cygwin. It is purely a Avast problem > Hi Marco, I went and re-installed my antivirus so that its files would be stored in a better directory. That has fixed my problem, as the av still slips .dll's into the execution stack when I run cygwin processes, but now my system knows where everything can be found. I tested the new octave. At first it crashed when I asked for plots, but then I did the: rebaseall -v from the ash-shell, and everything works. Both the latest xfig and the new octave-3.6.1 work as they should. Thank you for your patience. George gbarrick_at_walsh_dot_edu -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.
On 2/27/2012 4:01 PM, George Barrick wrote: Subj: most recent xfig-3.5.2b-2 broken. 2012.02.27.15:00:43 UT Hi George, probably octave is just the victim of Avast I suspect that your antivirus is screwing up cygwin in general. Probably it tries to inject a dll in the dll chain does "D:\Program Files\AlwilSoftware\Avast\snxhk.dll" exist ? Regards Marco Hi Marco, Yes. The file exists, but it is in the sub-directory Avast5 of the AlwilSoftware directory. Apparently their installer does not make everything perfect when it upgrades from a previous version. Should I then rip out both cygwin and the antivirus, then run a re-install of antivirus first, then the cygwin? Forgive me, install and re-install pretty much summarizes my suite of computing skills. When all that I have is a hammer, everything looks to me like a "hammer" kind of job. George gbarrick_at_walsh_dot_edu I see no reason to re-install cygwin. It is purely a Avast problem -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.
Subj: most recent xfig-3.5.2b-2 broken. 2012.02.27.15:00:43 UT > Hi George, > probably octave is just the victim of Avast I suspect that > your antivirus is screwing up cygwin in general. > Probably it tries to inject a dll in the dll chain > > does "D:\Program Files\AlwilSoftware\Avast\snxhk.dll" exist ? > > Regards > Marco Hi Marco, Yes. The file exists, but it is in the sub-directory Avast5 of the AlwilSoftware directory. Apparently their installer does not make everything perfect when it upgrades from a previous version. Should I then rip out both cygwin and the antivirus, then run a re-install of antivirus first, then the cygwin? Forgive me, install and re-install pretty much summarizes my suite of computing skills. When all that I have is a hammer, everything looks to me like a "hammer" kind of job. George gbarrick_at_walsh_dot_edu -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.
On 2/27/2012 3:35 PM, George Barrick wrote: The message that I get is: gbarrick@TS207 ~/jpegs/figs $ octave /usr/bin/octave-3.6.1.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory now you triggered all my attention as octave package maintainer try this $ cd /bin $ strace -o /tmp/octave.strace octave-3.6.1.exe --version it should open a system message window mentioning what is missing regards Marco Subj: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken. Hi Marco, I ran strace on the octave-3.6.1.exe and got an empty message file. of course, octave process never started :-) However, that strace terminated with a WinXP error alert box that said: octav-3.6.1.exe - Unable to locate component [ [ This application has failed to start because [ D:\Program Files\AlwilSoftware\Avast\snxhk.dll [ was not found. Re-installing the application [ may fix this problem. [ I guess that something is seriously screwed-up if my octave is trying to access a .dll from my antivirus program. I did install a program upgrade from Avast on Friday. It seems to be a bit more intrusive than the previous versions. However, my upgrade to octave-3.6.1 did not occur until this morning. George gbarrick_at_walsh_dot_edu Hi George, probably octave is just the victim of Avast I suspect the your antivirus is screwing up cygwin in general. Probably it tries to inject a dll in the dll chain does "D:\Program Files\AlwilSoftware\Avast\snxhk.dll" exist ? Regards Marco -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.
> > The message that I get is: > > > > gbarrick@TS207 ~/jpegs/figs > > $ octave > > /usr/bin/octave-3.6.1.exe: error while loading shared libraries: > > ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > now you triggered all my attention as octave package maintainer > > try this > > $ cd /bin > $ strace -o /tmp/octave.strace octave-3.6.1.exe --version > > it should open a system message window mentioning what is missing > > regards > Marco Subj: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken. Hi Marco, I ran strace on the octave-3.6.1.exe and got an empty message file. However, that strace terminated with a WinXP error alert box that said: octav-3.6.1.exe - Unable to locate component [ [ This application has failed to start because [ D:\Program Files\AlwilSoftware\Avast\snxhk.dll [ was not found. Re-installing the application [ may fix this problem. [ I guess that something is seriously screwed-up if my octave is trying to access a .dll from my antivirus program. I did install a program upgrade from Avast on Friday. It seems to be a bit more intrusive than the previous versions. However, my upgrade to octave-3.6.1 did not occur until this morning. George gbarrick_at_walsh_dot_edu -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.
On 2/27/2012 1:47 PM, George Barrick wrote: Subj: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken. 2012.02.27.12:45:48 UT Hi Marco (and cygwin-x folks), I will try the experiment that I think you are suggesting. If the .so is part of an older .dll, then a reinstallation of the packages should clear up the problem. I have not yet done that however because the same difficulty is emerging with the octave-3.6 that was released over the weekend. The message that I get is: gbarrick@TS207 ~/jpegs/figs $ octave /usr/bin/octave-3.6.1.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory now you triggered all my attention as octave package maintainer try this $ cd /bin $ strace -o /tmp/octave.strace octave-3.6.1.exe --version it should open a system message window mentioning what is missing George g_barrick_at_walsh_dot_edu regards Marco -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.
Subj: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken. 2012.02.27.12:45:48 UT Hi Marco (and cygwin-x folks), I will try the experiment that I think you are suggesting. If the .so is part of an older .dll, then a reinstallation of the packages should clear up the problem. I have not yet done that however because the same difficulty is emerging with the octave-3.6 that was released over the weekend. The message that I get is: gbarrick@TS207 ~/jpegs/figs $ octave /usr/bin/octave-3.6.1.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The cygcheck for octave indicates no particular problem: gbarrick@TS207 ~/jpegs/figs $ cygcheck octave Found: D:\cygwin\bin\octave Found: D:\cygwin\bin\octave -> D:\cygwin\bin\octave-3.6.1.exe D:\cygwin\bin\octave-3.6.1.exe D:\cygwin\bin\cygoctinterp-1.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygoctave-1.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygcruft-1.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cyggcc_s-1.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cyggfortran-3.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygstdc++-6.dll D:\cygwin\lib\lapack\cygblas-0.dll D:\cygwin\lib\lapack\cyglapack-0.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygreadline7.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygncursesw-10.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\GDI32.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygfftw3-3.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygfftw3f-3.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygpcre-0.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygqrupdate-0.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygGL-1.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygglapi-0.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygX11-xcb-1.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygX11-6.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygxcb-1.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygXau-6.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygXdmcp-6.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygxcb-glx-0.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygGLU-1.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygfontconfig-1.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygexpat-1.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygfreetype-6.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygbz2-1.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cyghdf5-7.dll I also examined the file /var/log/setup.log.full, but saw only messages that looked like successful installations of the many hundreds of files in the octave packages, plus a few messages from "io_stream:mklink" that seem to indicate successful creation of links. Is there anything that I might do to narrow down the .so or .dll that is causing the problem? It seems quite odd, because this is a new installation of cygwin (about three weeks old), and I do not think that it has had time to get mucked up with old .dll's and such. George g_barrick_at_walsh_dot_edu -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
