Re: garbage in man output

2007-03-02 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/1/2007 3:13 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote: ...man pages are all coming out with formatting commands rendered as garbage text. For example, the output of 'man ls' starts out with ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m ls - list directory contents where the 'ESC' strings are rendered in inverse video. The fi

Re: emacs 22.1?

2007-06-21 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/21/2007 5:08 PM, Brian Dessent wrote: Steffen Sledz wrote: Hmmm? I'm not sure if this is a practical solution because the old emacs-leim package is just obsolete, if a new emacs package is installed. How can i describe this inter-package dependency? There's no way to express any version

Re: emacs: nothing happens when launched

2007-07-22 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/22/2007 7:08 AM, kev v. wrote: Hello, I'm expericencing trouble running emacs: when I execute 'emacs.exe' from the bash shell like so: nothing happens: a new empty shell prompt line appears, just as if I hadn't run emacs. Have you by any chance done a rebaseall recently? If so, you mi

Re: emacs: nothing happens when launched

2007-07-22 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/22/2007 8:31 AM, kev v. wrote: I haven't run rebaseall (at least not explicitely - I'v never heard about this utility), however, I installed libncurses7 and now emacs seems to work fine. In fact, I only had libncurses8 installed on my system, not libncurses7. Is it safe to keep both versio

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [test-version] emacs-22.1-3/emacs-el-22.1-3/emacs-X11-22.1-3

2007-07-23 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/23/2007 4:29 PM, Steffen Sledz wrote: After a long time a new *TEST* version of 'emacs' has been uploaded to a server near you. Emacs-22.1-3 aborts with a core dump when I try to compile a large latex document (a 750 page book, split into several input files) under auctex 11.84. It work

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [test-version] emacs-22.1-3/emacs-el-22.1-3/emacs-X11-22.1-3

2007-07-23 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/23/2007 5:33 PM, Ken Brown wrote: Emacs-22.1-3 aborts with a core dump when I try to compile a large latex document (a 750 page book, split into several input files) under auctex 11.84. It works OK with simpler latex documents. I used the X11 version of emacs, started from an xterm

Re: Emacs takes 100% CPU

2007-07-25 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/25/2007 2:52 PM, René Berber wrote: Nicolas Saunier wrote: [snip] I am using emacs with output to X11, and there is no error about not finding a display. It just crashes rightaway, but often works at the second try. Things may improve if you use cygserver and env. var. "CYGWIN=server".

Re: Emacs takes 100% CPU

2007-07-25 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/25/2007 1:31 PM, Nicolas Saunier wrote: I am using emacs with output to X11, and there is no error about not finding a display. It just crashes rightaway, but often works at the second try. I had that problem for years with emacs-21 and never found a solution. I just got in the habit of

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [test-version] emacs-22.1-3/emacs-el-22.1-3/emacs-X11-22.1-3

2007-07-30 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/28/2007 10:42 AM, Mark Harig wrote: If you discover a repeatable set of steps that you can follow that will cause Emacs to crash, would you please post those to this list? They could be used as a test to tell whether Emacs has been built correctly. I have a tex file that you can use for

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [test-version] emacs-22.1-3/emacs-el-22.1-3/emacs-X11-22.1-3

2007-07-31 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/31/2007 9:37 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Ken Brown wrote: I have a tex file that you can use for testing. It reliably produces a crash on my system when I compile it using auctex after starting emacs-22.1-3 from an xterm window. (I use auctex 11.84 and miktex 2.6, but I doubt if that

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [test-version] emacs-22.1-3/emacs-el-22.1-3/emacs-X11-22.1-3

2007-07-31 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/31/2007 11:12 AM, Ken Brown wrote: I did have to do a little fiddling to make previewing work right. I meant to say "viewing", not "previewing". (The issue was viewing pdf files produced by pdflatex.) Auctex's preview feature worked OOTB. Ken -- Un

Re: Using cygwin bash shell with NT Emacs, path is not setup perfectly

2007-08-26 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/25/2007 8:30 PM, Eric Lilja wrote: Ok, it seems that /etc/profile is not read when I start cygwin bash using M-x shell and I think that may be a problem. I can't find the earlier message(s) in this thread, so I'm not sure of the context. But you might be able to solve your problem by cus

Re: Not yet supported

2007-12-12 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/12/2007 2:37 PM, Marc Girod wrote: After this, startx started at least twice in a row, but emacs didn't show up. I.e. started, but no window!... This is an old problem. You have to reinstall libncurses7 to get emacs back. See http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-10/msg00540.html

Re: Not yet supported [Attn emacs maintainer]

2007-12-12 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/12/2007 8:23 PM, Eric Blake wrote: So, is emacs 22.1 ever going to be promoted to current? Unfortunately, there are serious problems with the (experimental) emacs 22.1 package, as I and at least one other person reported last July when it was released. See especially http://c

Re: Emacs font trouble

2013-09-18 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/18/2013 9:07 PM, Robert McBroom wrote: Having trouble getting an acceptable fixed font display on emacs. All my old standards don't seem to be showing up any more. terminal, fixed, courier, 8514fix, etc. -fn "Lucida Console-8" worked for a while but not any more error: Invalid font name, -b

Re: Emacs font trouble

2013-09-19 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/19/2013 1:32 AM, Robert McBroom wrote: On 9/18/2013 9:57 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 9/18/2013 9:07 PM, Robert McBroom wrote: Having trouble getting an acceptable fixed font display on emacs. All my old standards don't seem to be showing up any more. terminal, fixed, courier, 8514fix

Re: Emacs font trouble

2013-09-19 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/19/2013 5:07 PM, Robert McBroom wrote: On 9/19/2013 7:17 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 9/19/2013 1:32 AM, Robert McBroom wrote: On 9/18/2013 9:57 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 9/18/2013 9:07 PM, Robert McBroom wrote: Having trouble getting an acceptable fixed font display on emacs. All my old

Re: Emacs doesn't start from icon after update to 1.7.25

2013-09-20 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/20/2013 7:26 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: Today I updated 1.7.25. I was a handful of minor releases behind at the time. After the update, I can't start Emacs from the icon anymore. The shortcut command I have for it is the following: C:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe -p /usr/bin bash -l -i -c "emacs

Re: Emacs doesn't start from icon after update to 1.7.25

2013-09-22 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/21/2013 8:42 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- From: On Behalf Of Ken Brown On 9/20/2013 7:26 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: Today I updated 1.7.25. I was a handful of minor releases behind at the time. After the update, I can't start Emacs from the icon anymore. The sho

Re: Emacs doesn't start from icon after update to 1.7.25

2013-09-22 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/22/2013 2:06 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- From: On Behalf Of Ken Brown Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 6:10 AM To: cygwin Subject: Re: Emacs doesn't start from icon after update to 1.7.25 On 9/21/2013 8:42 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- From

Re: Emacs doesn't start from icon after update to 1.7.25

2013-09-23 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/22/2013 5:38 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- From: Ken Brown Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 1:13 PM On 9/22/2013 2:06 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- From: On Behalf Of Ken Brown On 9/21/2013 8:42 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- From

Re: Emacs doesn't start from icon after update to 1.7.25 [attn: Chuck]

2013-09-23 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/23/2013 9:56 AM, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- From: Ken Brown Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 4:50 AM On 9/22/2013 5:38 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- From: Ken Brown Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 1:13 PM On 9/22/2013 2:06 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote

Re: I can't find the format file `xelatex.fmt'!

2013-10-01 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/30/2013 8:24 PM, kuaf wrote: Hi list, I've installed below package via 'setup-x86.exe': texlive 20130529-1 texlive-collection-basic 20130529-1 texlive-collection-xetex 20130529-1 texlive-collection-xetex-doc 20130529-1 Run '$ xelatex vimhelp-a4.tex', I get bel

Re: Did October "Patch Tuesday" break something?

2013-10-11 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/11/2013 10:18 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: After installing the October "Patch Tuesday" updates from Microsoft, Emacs won't run except in -nw (no window) mode. Here is the error I'm getting: emacs-X11: Memory exhausted--use M-x save-some-buffers then exit and restart Emacs Has any

Re: Did October "Patch Tuesday" break something?

2013-10-14 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/13/2013 7:18 PM, Stan Moore wrote: I also installed the October windows patches (Win 7) and my emacs changed but in a different way. Everything works normally except when I try to read an info file. Apparently emacs thinks I suddenly speak French. Outside emacs info works perfectly. I

Re: why do psutils & libtool packages need ~25+MB of latex (was Re: setup.ini dependency graph?)

2013-10-27 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/27/2013 1:00 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: On 10/25/2013 5:29 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 25/10/2013 12:12 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: Does anybody have a script or a tool that can parse a setup.ini and generate a dependency graph? I'm using pmcyg to create a stripped-down standalone installation

Re: emacs-w32 24.3-7 aborts frequently using TRAMP

2013-11-18 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/17/2013 7:43 PM, SDS wrote: Emacs-w32 aborts about once/twice a day when using SSH with TRAMP. I rarely use Emacs without TRAMP, so I'm not sure whether this issue is really related to TRAMP. The abort doesn't appear to be caused by direct user input, as I've seen background sessions that I

Re: emacs-w32 24.3-7 aborts frequently using TRAMP

2013-11-20 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/18/2013 3:53 PM, SDS wrote: Update on the session that produced this error earlier: On 11/18/2013 3:14 PM, SDS wrote: More information about Lisp errors. I got a different Lisp error while leaving emacs-w32 -Q with TRAMP in the background. Output from the Lisp Debugger is shown below: D

Re: setting up a minimal TeXLive?

2013-11-25 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/25/2013 11:02 AM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: I'd like to use TeXLive under cygwin for my LaTeX work; What are the minimal packages that I need to get going? And how do I update specific packages when new versions are announced on CTAN? My recommendations for getting started are near the

Re: setting up a minimal TeXLive?

2013-11-25 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/25/2013 1:11 PM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: On Mon, Nov 25 2013,Ken Brown wrote: [snipped 6 lines] My recommendations for getting started are near the end of the release announcement: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2013-06/msg00030.html I recommend *not* updating CTAN

Re: emacs-w32/X11 24.3-7 aborts frequently

2013-11-25 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/21/2013 3:46 AM, SDS wrote: Thanks for the assistance Ken, I appreciate it. I was able to uninstall Symantec Endpoint Protection, so the only piece of software that I may have from the BLODA list is now NVIDIA Geforce. I took your advice about experimentation, and I discovered some more inf

Re: Emacs-w32/X11 doesn't echo periods when typing in password for TRAMP

2013-11-26 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/25/2013 8:59 PM, SDS wrote: When I'm prompted for a password while accessing a remote directory using TRAMP in Emacs, sometimes the password isn't hidden (i.e. periods aren't echoed in the minibuffer, but the actual password is echoed instead). [...] The good news is that the bug happen

Re: emacs-w32/X11 24.3-7 aborts frequently

2013-11-28 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/28/2013 10:17 AM, SDS wrote: Unfortunately, stopping the Windows Defender service didn't solve the aborting issue. I'm not sure stopping the service is enough. Did you actually turn off Windows Defender via the Control Panel? Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.h

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated, new for 64-bit: lftp 4.4.11-1

2013-12-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/6/2013 6:26 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: venture the guess that it either somehow only happens on Cygwin or has something to do with the fact that I need to pull the files through a proxy server. It would be helpful to know if you can reproduce (just repeating a mirror operation on a freshly mir

Re: emacs won't run

2013-12-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/6/2013 8:25 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: lrwxrwxrwx 1 andrea mkgroup 23 11 set 12.22 /usr/bin/emacs -> /etc/alternatives/emacs $ ls -l /etc/alternatives/emacs lrwxrwxrwx 1 andrea mkgroup 22 11 set 12.22 /etc/alternatives/emacs -> /usr/bin/emacs-X11.exe I don't know if this explains your em

Re: Fwd: emacs-X11 memory problem after Windows update

2013-12-12 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/12/2013 10:13 AM, William M. (Mike) Miller wrote: I'm running Windows 8.1 (cygcheck.out attached) and did a Windows update this morning. Since then I cannot run emacs-X11. Sometimes the message is: Memory exhausted--use M-x save-some-buffers then exit and restart Emacs Often there is no

Re: Fwd: emacs-X11 memory problem after Windows update

2013-12-12 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/12/2013 11:17 AM, William M. (Mike) Miller wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 12/12/2013 10:13 AM, William M. (Mike) Miller wrote: I'm running Windows 8.1 (cygcheck.out attached) and did a Windows update this morning. Since then I cannot run emac

Re: Fwd: emacs-X11 memory problem after Windows update

2013-12-12 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/12/2013 11:41 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown writes: ***MEMORY-ERROR***: emacs[2924]: GSlice: failed to allocate 2040 bytes (alignment: 2048): Cannot allocate memory I'm seeing the same thing on Win7/64 Pro, both for 64bit and 32bit Cygwin. Since I don't normally use the

Re: Fwd: emacs-X11 memory problem after Windows update

2013-12-12 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/12/2013 12:38 PM, William M. (Mike) Miller wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 12/12/2013 11:17 AM, William M. (Mike) Miller wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 12/12/2013 10:13 AM, William M. (Mike) Miller wrote: I'm ru

Re: Fwd: emacs-X11 memory problem after Windows update

2013-12-12 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/12/2013 1:25 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:13:34PM -0500, Ken Brown wrote: On 12/12/2013 11:41 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown writes: ***MEMORY-ERROR***: emacs[2924]: GSlice: failed to allocate 2040 bytes (alignment: 2048): Cannot allocate memory I&#

Re: Fwd: Fwd: emacs-X11 memory problem after Windows update

2013-12-12 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/12/2013 3:42 PM, William M. (Mike) Miller wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 02:45:27PM -0500, Ken Brown wrote: On 12/12/2013 1:25 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:13:34PM -0500, Ken Brown wrote: On 12/12

Re: emacs won't run

2013-12-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/6/2013 8:38 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: On 12/05/13 15:40, marco atzeri wrote: In the end I got a trace file (which is over 7MB!), but it's nothing I can interpret. What should I do? Anything I should look for? any seriuos error ;-) Wish I could discern... :-) see here Problem re

Re: gtk+ applications crash when filechooser opened

2013-12-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/13/2013 2:12 AM, Carl Michal wrote: I recently started trying to port a gtk program to cygwin, and have found that my program crashes everytime it tries to open a file chooser widget. This doesn't happen with just my own programs, but also with gvim and emacs-x11. Either will start up ok,

Re: Fwd: cygwin texlive problem

2013-12-19 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/19/2013 10:08 AM, Valerie Livina wrote: Dear Prof. Ken Brown, I apologise, I just sent the email unfinished - I continue it here. I found your email in Cygwin mailing lists, and I understand that you are an expert in TeXLive packages in Cygwin. I would be very grateful if you could help me

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-Mozilla-CA-20130114-2

2014-02-08 Thread Ken Brown
The following package in the x86_64 distribution has been updated: *** perl-Mozilla-CA-20130114-2 perl-Mozilla-CA provides a copy of Mozilla's bundle of Certificate Authority certificates in a form that can be consumed by Perl modules and libraries based on OpenSSL. This build includes a pat

Re: get rid of getpwent? (Was: cygwin-1.7.28 getpwent header declaration changes ?)

2014-02-09 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/9/2014 11:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 9 17:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 9 08:45, Warren Young wrote: On Feb 7, 2014, at 10:51 AM, Warren Young wrote: Here's a better check that doesn't give false positives: $ cat < checkfile #!/bin/sh if egrep -q '_getgren

Re: get rid of getpwent? (Was: cygwin-1.7.28 getpwent header declaration changes ?)

2014-02-12 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/12/2014 4:08 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 11 19:06, Eric Blake wrote: On 02/11/2014 05:06 PM, Warren Young wrote: On 2/11/2014 16:25, David Stacey wrote: getpwent() is called in three different places. To those of you who have investigated these code paths: do any of them look lik

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-02-14 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/14/2014 6:00 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 14 11:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 14 11:16, Frank Fesevur wrote: I've installed that snapshot on my work laptop, part of AD domain. I moved passwd and group out of the way and noticed my .bashrc is not executed. [...] Most noticeable d

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-02-14 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/14/2014 9:14 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 14 08:50, Ken Brown wrote: On 2/14/2014 6:00 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 14 11:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 14 11:16, Frank Fesevur wrote: I've installed that snapshot on my work laptop, part of AD domain. I moved passw

Re: $PATH contains dot but unclear where it comes from

2014-02-20 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/20/2014 9:12 AM, Robert Klemme wrote: 2. only bash invoked as bash shows it - it's not shown when invoked as sh.exe This fact should enable you to track down the problem. The bash manual explains how it behaves differently when invoked as sh.exe. I don't remember the details, but I thi

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-02-21 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/21/2014 9:55 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: - You want to specify a different login shell than /bin/sh. Typo: You forgot to change /bin/sh to /bin/bash. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http:/

Re: Building libsigsegv on Cygwin64

2014-02-22 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/21/2014 10:46 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 21 16:32, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Trying to build libsigsegv-2.10 on Cygwin64 (using the src tarball and its .cygport file from x86 distribution), fails as follows [...] libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/works/tmp/libsigsegv-2.10-

Re: Core dump in emacs 24.3 on CYGWIN

2014-02-27 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/27/2014 10:34 AM, Doug Lewan wrote: All, for several months I've been getting core dumps from emacs 24.3 running under CYGWIN. I try to update CYGWIN every week, but occasionally a week must be skipped. Today is the first day I've gotten any specific information about any of these core d

Re: Building libsigsegv on Cygwin64

2014-03-02 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/21/2014 10:32 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Trying to build libsigsegv-2.10 on Cygwin64 (using the src tarball and its .cygport file from x86 distribution), fails as follows [...] libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/works/tmp/libsigsegv-2.10-1/src/libsigsegv-2.10/src -I.. -I. -I/work

Re: Building libsigsegv on Cygwin64

2014-03-02 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/2/2014 12:20 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 2/21/2014 10:32 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Trying to build libsigsegv-2.10 on Cygwin64 (using the src tarball and its .cygport file from x86 distribution), fails as follows [...] libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/works/tmp/libsigsegv-2.10-1

Re: Building libsigsegv on Cygwin64

2014-03-03 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/3/2014 12:06 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 3 16:02, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 2 12:20, Ken Brown wrote: [...] I found the problem (or at least I found *a* problem): There's a configure test "checking whether a fault handler according to POSIX works", which p

Re: Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?

2014-03-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/3/2014 10:05 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 3 08:55, Charles Wilson wrote: On 2/26/2014 5:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Weird, I was pretty sure we already have an /etc/shells file installed by default. Apparently not. So, shan't we add one? /bin/sh /bin/bash /bin/dash

With latest snapshot, emacs is very slow to start under X11

2014-03-14 Thread Ken Brown
With the snapshot of 2014-03-10, start the X server and then run "emacs-X11 -Q&" in an xterm window. On my system, emacs consistently takes about 28 seconds to start. With cygwin-1.7.28, however, it takes about 1 second. This is on Windows 7; so far I've tested 64-bit Cygwin only. I'll try

Re: With latest snapshot, emacs is very slow to start under X11

2014-03-14 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/14/2014 11:52 AM, Ken Brown wrote: With the snapshot of 2014-03-10, start the X server and then run "emacs-X11 -Q&" in an xterm window. On my system, emacs consistently takes about 28 seconds to start. With cygwin-1.7.28, however, it takes about 1 second. This is on Win

Re: With latest snapshot, emacs is very slow to start under X11

2014-03-14 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/14/2014 12:42 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 14 12:28, Ken Brown wrote: >> On 3/14/2014 11:52 AM, Ken Brown wrote: >>> With the snapshot of 2014-03-10, start the X server and then run >>> "emacs-X11 -Q&" in an xterm window. On my system, emacs c

Re: With latest snapshot, emacs is very slow to start under X11

2014-03-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/14/2014 4:19 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 14 14:45, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/14/2014 12:42 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 14 12:28, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/14/2014 11:52 AM, Ken Brown wrote: With the snapshot of 2014-03-10, start the X server and then run "emacs-X11 -Q&am

Re: With latest snapshot, emacs is very slow to start under X11

2014-03-16 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/16/2014 7:53 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 15 12:35, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/14/2014 4:19 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: The problem is this. The memory addresses given in the straces or in the below stackdump don't make any sense to me, because I don't have your DLL. For

Re: With latest snapshot, emacs is very slow to start under X11

2014-03-17 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/16/2014 11:06 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/16/2014 7:53 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 15 12:35, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/14/2014 4:19 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: The problem is this. The memory addresses given in the straces or in the below stackdump don't make any sense to me, beca

Public key authorization problem with latest snapshot

2014-03-19 Thread Ken Brown
Here's some more weirdness involving the recent changes to exception handling on 64-bit Cygwin. I have an ordinary user kbrown and an administrator user kbrown-admin. I use the following command to simulate "su": ssh kbrown-admin@$(hostname) . With the current (2014-03-18) x86_64 snapshot,

Re: Public key authorization problem with latest snapshot

2014-03-19 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/19/2014 12:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 19 11:37, Ken Brown wrote: Here's some more weirdness involving the recent changes to exception handling on 64-bit Cygwin. I have an ordinary user kbrown and an administrator user kbrown-admin. I use the following command to simulat

Relocation errors with latest binutils

2014-03-20 Thread Ken Brown
With binutils-2.24.51-1 the build of xetex.exe (part of TeX Live) fails with relocation errors like the following: g++ -g -O2 -o xetex.exe xetexdir/xetex-xetexextra.o synctexdir/xetex-synctex.o xetex-xetexini.o xetex-xetex0.o xetex-xetex-pool.o libxetex.a /home/kbrown/src/texlive/test64/Work/

Re: makeinfo --pdf broken (! Font \circle=lcircle10 not loadable)

2014-03-25 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/25/2014 10:45 AM, Per Mildner wrote: I can not get makeinfo --pdf to work on todays Cygwin (same problem in both 32-bit and 64-bit Cygwin installation, on 64-bit Windows 7). It looks as if it can not find the lcircle10 font. I have tried installing most of the texlive-collection* packages

Re: Relocation errors with latest binutils

2014-03-26 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/20/2014 6:31 PM, Ken Brown wrote: With binutils-2.24.51-1 the build of xetex.exe (part of TeX Live) fails with relocation errors like the following: g++ -g -O2 -o xetex.exe xetexdir/xetex-xetexextra.o synctexdir/xetex-synctex.o xetex-xetexini.o xetex-xetex0.o xetex-xetex-pool.o libxetex.a

Re: Public key authorization problem with latest snapshot

2014-03-29 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/20/2014 11:02 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 20 01:58, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! The code is now practically equivalent to what is in 1.7.28. Only the VectoredContinueHandler, which was the reason Cygwin's exception handler could be called twice, is not called

Re: texlive-install: core dumped

2014-04-04 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/4/2014 6:59 AM, Václav Zeman wrote: On 30 June 2013 18:32, Ken Brown wrote: On 6/30/2013 12:04 PM, Helmut Karlowski wrote: Ken Brown, 30.06.2013 16:36:40: I'm glad you found it. Does the malformed environment string also explain the other strange errors you were seeing? D

Re: TexLive post install script fails

2014-04-04 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/4/2014 9:54 AM, Václav Zeman wrote: Hi. TeXLive post install script exits with error for me. I am attaching cygcheck output and mllatex.log with the errors. Thanks for the report. The error is actually harmless (unless you want to use mllatex), but it should go away if you issue the fol

Re: relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_PC32 against undefined symbol `len'

2014-04-05 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/5/2014 1:15 PM, Richard wrote: binutils2.24.51-1OK There were some problems with this release of binutils. You might try updating to 2.24.51-2. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/fa

Re: relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_PC32 against undefined symbol `len'

2014-04-05 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/5/2014 2:53 PM, Richard wrote: > On 4/5/2014 1:15 PM, Richard wrote: > binutils2.24.51-1OK There were some problems with this release of binutils. You might try updating to 2.24.51-2. Ken Great suggestion but unfortunately it didn't cure the problem

Problem with default manifest when application provides its own

2014-04-09 Thread Ken Brown
I don't know if this report belongs here or if I should report a binutils bug, but I'll start here. When building emacs-w32.exe with the current binutils, I end up with an executable that won't run after it's stripped (at least on x86_64). I traced this to the fact that emacs-w32 comes with i

Re: 1.7.29-2: Exception from cygwin_gethostname

2014-04-10 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/10/2014 5:15 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi David, Hi Ken [in CC], On Apr 7 13:50, David Rothenberger wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 4/7/2014 3:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 7 11:49, David Rothenberger wrote: I'm having a problem doing hostname resolution on one of my Wi

Re: Compiling Heimdal

2014-04-10 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/10/2014 9:50 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 10 13:14, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: Skimming the cygport manual, I just can't find the keyword to specify the build reqs. That would be the "Checks" section, note that you need to check for the presence of spe

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-10 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/10/2014 10:53 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi folks, The latest snapshot, 2014-04-10, is a snapshot from CVS HEAD again. It contains the latest crazy ideas in terms of the user and group account creation without requiring the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. Not a lot has changed since we

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-12 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/12/2014 7:13 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 11 19:36, Ken Brown wrote: On 4/10/2014 10:53 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi folks, The latest snapshot, 2014-04-10, is a snapshot from CVS HEAD again. It contains the latest crazy ideas in terms of the user and group account creation

Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so

2014-04-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/13/2014 10:53 AM, KARR, DAVID wrote: I recently installed 1.7.29 on a new Win7/64 laptop. Every day or so, I get a "fatal error" dialog from emacs-w32. It asks me if I want to debug it, but I'm not sure what info I could pull from gdb that would be useful. A gdb backtrace might or migh

Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so

2014-04-14 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/13/2014 6:46 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- Of Ken Brown Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 5:43 PM Subject: Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so On 4/13/2014 10:53 AM, KARR, DAVID wrote: I recently installed 1.7.29 on a new Win7/64 laptop. Every day or so

Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so

2014-04-14 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/14/2014 9:28 AM, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- Of Ken Brown Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 9:19 AM Subject: Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so On 4/13/2014 6:46 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- Of Ken Brown Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 5

Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so

2014-04-14 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/14/2014 11:31 AM, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- Of Ken Brown Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 5:43 PM Subject: Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so On 4/13/2014 10:53 AM, KARR, DAVID wrote: I recently installed 1.7.29 on a new Win7/64 laptop. Every day or so

Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so

2014-04-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/15/2014 12:12 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 21:08:15 -0700 From: Ken Brown I just saw it die, and this is the bt I get: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x000100551354 in wait_reading_process_output ( time_limit=time_limit@entry=0, nsecs

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-15 Thread Ken Brown
I've come across a glitch involving sshd and cygserver. I normally have both running, but I've discovered that I have to start sshd before I start cygserver, or else I have problems (can't ssh from a non-administrator account to an administrator account). Here are the details on 64 bit Cygwin

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-16 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/16/2014 2:35 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi Ken, On Apr 16 10:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 15 14:14, Ken Brown wrote: I've come across a glitch involving sshd and cygserver. I normally have both running, but I've discovered that I have to start sshd before I start cyg

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-16 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/16/2014 8:28 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 4/16/2014 2:35 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi Ken, On Apr 16 10:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 15 14:14, Ken Brown wrote: I've come across a glitch involving sshd and cygserver. I normally have both running, but I've discovered that

Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so

2014-04-19 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/15/2014 12:13 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 4/15/2014 12:12 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 21:08:15 -0700 From: Ken Brown I just saw it die, and this is the bt I get: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x000100551354 in wait_reading_process_output

Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so

2014-04-21 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/21/2014 1:14 AM, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- Of KARR, DAVID Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 6:19 PM Subject: RE: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so -Original Message- Of Ken Brown Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 4:38 PM Subject: Re: Fatal error from

Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so

2014-04-21 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/21/2014 1:25 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- Of Ken Brown Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 4:16 AM Subject: Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so On 4/21/2014 1:14 AM, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- Of KARR, DAVID Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014

Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so

2014-04-23 Thread Ken Brown
rity/IDSP.html for more information. -Original Message- Of Ken Brown Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 11:34 AM Subject: Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so On 4/21/2014 1:25 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- Of Ken Brown Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 4:1

Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so

2014-04-24 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/23/2014 7:56 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: Ken Brown wrote: I've rebuilt emacs-24.3 with the gnutls fix. David and Achim (and anyone else who's been experiencing these crashes), please try the following binary and let me know if it solves the problem: http://sanibeltranq

Re: emacs-w32, version 24.3.1, crashes constantly

2014-05-01 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/1/2014 11:11 AM, Zdzislaw Meglicki wrote: Emacs-w32, version 24.3.1, has been crashing constantly, so much so I learnt how to use "recover-session." Most recently I finally forced myself to run gdb on its sadly expired body and listed the following stack: (gdb) bt #0 0x7ff9174a9e3b in K

Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so

2014-05-02 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/2/2014 6:50 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Achim Gratz writes: Sorry for the long delay. I've now ran the two Emacs versions side by side for two days. The original has crashed twice during that time and the patched version is still running… so I'd call that a fix. Thanks! Just as I had sent t

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs-24.3.90-1 [TEST]

2014-05-04 Thread Ken Brown
fc-cache -sv `cygpath -W`/Fonts as administrator, to update the cache. Ken Brown Cygwin's emacs maintainer *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag i

Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so

2014-05-07 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/7/2014 7:42 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- Of KARR, DAVID Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 2:34 PM -Original Message- Of KARR, DAVID Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 10:53 AM I recently installed 1.7.29 on a new Win7/64 laptop. Every day or so, I get a "fatal error" dial

Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so

2014-05-08 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/8/2014 12:03 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- On 5/7/2014 7:42 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- Of KARR, DAVID Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 2:34 PM -Original Message- Of KARR, DAVID Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 10:53 AM I recently installed 1.7.29

Re: Microsoft Accounts (was Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members)

2014-05-08 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/8/2014 7:17 PM, Robert Pendell wrote: On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 7 16:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 7 10:09, Chris J. Breisch wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: And here's a problem which I'm not sure how to solve at all: When calling the latest mk

Re: Has Lucida Console disappeared?

2014-05-12 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/12/2014 10:37 AM, Doug Lewan wrote: Hi, Since updating Cygwin on Friday I (i.e. emacs, etc.) don't find the Lucida Console fonts. If you're trying to use Windows fonts within emacs-X11, that temporarily doesn't work because of a recent change in the fontconfig package: http://cygwin

Re: Emacs-w32... crashing problem

2014-05-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/13/2014 8:16 AM, Zdzislaw Meglicki wrote: Well, the crashing problem in emacs-w32 is greatly improved, yet, the program still crashed on me yesterday, after a good few days of seamless performance. The emacs-version function returns: (emacs-version) "GNU Emacs 24.3.90.1 (x86_64-unknown-cygw

Re: Emacs-w32... crashing problem

2014-05-14 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/13/2014 5:25 PM, Zdzislaw Meglicki wrote: Ken Brown writeth: Please describe the crash in more detail. What were you doing when it happened? Did the window just disappear, or did you get a dialogue box asking if you want to attach a debugger? Did you get any messages in the terminal

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