RE: Problems

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Doug Whiting wrote:

> Thanks. No offense taken, though I actually had searched through the
> gcc/chmod stuff fairly carefully, and nothing suggested there had worked. I
> finally just turned OFF the ntsec stuff (CYGWIN=nontsec), and that fixed the
> problem!  It appears that there's a bug of some sort with either the new
> default setting or the ntsec functionality itself. Anyway, now chmod and gcc
> work fine, but I'm not sure how I should have guessed to go against the
> grain by turning off the feature that is claimed by all the emails to fix
> the bug :-(

Doug,

If you read all the relevant messages, you'll see that your /etc/passwd is
probably not up to date.  Try re-generating it with 'mkpasswd >
/etc/passwd' (having made a backup first, of course, and with all the
appropriate flags for a domain user).

> The emacs C-X C-c worked after adding the tty element, but I had to take out
> the space before and after '=' in the batch file.  That is
>    set CYGWIN = tty
> did not work, but
>    set CYGWIN=tty
> did work!  Anyway, thanks for that pointer, as it was not at all obvious
> from the (too many) matches to my search queries. Kinda seems like tty
> should be the default, but in any case I'm up and rolling now.

There are some problems with the 'tty' setting (I, in particular, don't
use it), but if it works for you, all the better.

> Thanks again.

Glad I could help,
	Igor

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Pechtchanski
> To: Doug Whiting
> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Sent: 10/19/02 2:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Problems
>
> Doug,
>
> On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Doug Whiting wrote:
>
> > I just installed Cygwin from the Internet, and things are very close
> to
> > working fine. I have run quite a few things successfully, but there
> are
> > three annoying problems, listed below, that I'm hoping have a simple
> > solution. I looked in your email threads and couldn't find a solution
> that
> > works for me.  FYI, I'm running Win2K Professional on a Toshiba Tecra
> 8200,
> > with 20GB disk (8GB free) and 256M RAM.
> >
> > 1) The exe files produced by gcc (e.g., even "hello world") are not
> > executable. I added set CYGWIN=ntsec in the startup batch file, but
> that
> > made no difference. I'm an administrator on the system, so I have all
> > rights.  When I use the Windows Explorer to set the security of the
> file
> > a.exe to executable, it runs fine, but that's hard to put in a
> makefile
> > :-(
>
> Normally people are assumed to make a reasonable effort in searching the
> archives, and it's understood that it's hard to phrase a query
> correctly.
> However, in this case, searching for "gcc exe not executable" (in the
> October archives) produced multiple relevant messages.  I refer you to
> those.
> FYI, ntsec is on by default in Cygwin-1.3.13+.
>
> > 2) In trying to fix the above, I found that chmod doesn't work.
> > I get the following error message, no matter what switches I try to
> give it
> > (and I've tried a lot):
> >         $ chmod a+x a.exe
> >         chmod: changing permissions of `a.exe': Invalid argument
> > Perhaps these two problems are related, but together they make life
> > quite difficult. It seems almost like chmod is not complaining about
> the
> > syntax, not the inability to set the attribute, but of course that may
> > be reading too much into the error message.
>
> Same problem as above.  FWIW, you could have searched for "chmod doesn't
> work".
>
> > 3) An apparently unrelated problem with Emacs: when I type C-x C-c to
> > kill (exit) Emacs, the computer just beeps at me and does nothing. I
> > have to do "M-x Kill Emacs", which is a real pain.
>
> Again, the proper search query is "emacs Ctrl-C"...  As there are quite
> a
> few unrelated messages in the results, I'll answer this one: you should
> look into the 'tty' setting in your CYGWIN variable.
>
> > Any ideas on these problems? It's probably just some simple
> configuration
> > stuff, but I've spent a few hours fiddling with it to no avail.
>
> Archive search and Google are your friends. :-D
> No offense,
> 	Igor
>

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