I just wanted to make use of the Cygwin x server, but when trying to start a program I am told that glibc is too old. I have version 2.3.2 but would need version 2.3.6. Is there any easy way to update this? Cant find this package in the cygwin setup routine.
Thanks
When you run a Cygwin update, it should by default update all packages that have changed, which should give you the latest C library. A lot of "shoulds", but I've never had any issues.
However, this sounds like an error from the client program, running on a remote host, not the X server (which is running under Cygwin). I'm not sure how a Cygwin program would even report this.
Please edit your question, showing the actual program that you're running, and the exact text of any error message -- copied from either the console window or a dialog box.
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Hi we are currently using Quickbuild for our Automation Jobs,apparently as we tried to deploy some changes we are unable to proceed due to this:
Does anyone know how to fix this? I have tried updating our git version to the latest, and I have also tried to install a cygwin latest version, none of this has solved our problem.
https://www.cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-find_fast_cwd-warnings
4.45.
How do I fix find_fast_cwd warnings?
Older Cygwin releases asked users to report problems to the mailing list with the message:
find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer. Please report
this problem to the public mailing list cygwin#cygwin.com
Recent Cygwin releases changed this to the message:
This typically occurs if you're using an older Cygwin version on a newer Windows.
Please update to the latest available Cygwin version from https://cygwin.com/.
If the problem persists, please see https://cygwin.com/problems.html.
This is not serious, just a warning that Cygwin may not always be able to exactly emulate all aspects of Unix current directory handling under your Windows release.
Unfortunately some projects and products still distribute older Cygwin releases which may not fully support newer Windows releases, instead of installing the current release from the Cygwin project. They also may not provide any obvious way to keep the Cygwin packages their application uses up to date with fixes for security issues and upgrades.
The solution is simply downloading and running the Cygwin Setup program, following the instructions in the Internet Setup section of ``Setting Up Cygwin'' in the Cygwin User's Guide.
Please exit from all applications before running the Cygwin Setup program. When running Setup, you should not change most of the values presented, just select the Next button in most cases, as you already have a Cygwin release installed, and only want to upgrade your current installation. You should make your own selection if the internet connection to your system requires a proxy; and you must always pick an up to date Cygwin download (mirror) site, preferably the site nearest to your system for faster downloads, as shown, with more details to help you choose, on the Mirror Sites web page.
The Cygwin Setup program will download and apply upgrades to all packages required for Cygwin itself and installed applications. Any problems with applying updates, or the application after updates, should be reported to the project or product supplier for remedial action.
As Cygwin is a volunteer project, unable to provide support for older releases installed by projects or products, it would be helpful to let other users know what project or product you installed, in a quick email.
Whenever I try to run the batch script to run MPS, it opens for a split second then immediately closes.
Trying to run it via the command line gives me the following message: "Jetbrains/MPS was unexpected at this time."
I posted the question also on their forum, but I don't seem to get an answer, so maybe someone else had this problem as well.
EDIT: For clarification, I am using Windows 10 on 64 bits, and have tried both version 203.7148.1199 and version 202.8194.1069, installed via the toolbox app and via the standalone installer. I also want to mention that my system meets the requirements to run the program.
EDIT 2: I found out that it works but only if it is installed in the C drive, not in any other drive.
The problem was the path in which MPS was installed. Apparently, it's a bug that I just discovered and the characters '(' or ')' in the installation path make MPS just not run. Probably the bat script doesn't take them right into account or something.
This depends on what OS you are running, and which version of MPS you downloaded. If you used the generic package, you must at least copy the contents from the bin/<os> directory (e.g. bin/win) to the bin directory. Although the recommended way of running vanilla MPS is to download the platform specific package (Windows, Linux or Mac) and then run it from your normal starter (e.g. a menu like the Windows start menu).
I am very experienced with eclipse, using it since its Juno days, but today i have ran into one of the strangest bugs and want to know if any of you have had this bug and if you may have an answer as to how to fix it. (Or at least a work-around to getting my favorite IDE working again).
I recently updated to Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) and it seems nothing wants to work like it did when i had Wiley, namely eclipse. I used the installer to download the IDE and launched it and i got a strange issue where the IDE would load and ask for a workspace, but would then show a dialog box that is using the screen buffer as its data.
Screenshot with strange eclipse launch
I then thought that it may be an issue with the downloaded file (Corruption or something) so i downloaded the tar from eclipse.org directly. I extracted the tar and launched the eclipse executable and it loaded up and asked for a workspace again and began to launch, and finally it came up, the same old back buffered box.
So i got the idea to run it from the console and got this output, but i have no idea what it means. I saw no stack traces so im sure its fine (Again it may be a GTK error, so any ubuntu people this is where you come in)
Console Run with the same problem
I started to think it was my java version (Oracle JDK 9 for Linux)that was the problem so i did a test compile of the hello world program and everything was fine, it all worked.
(Would add screen shots but im new here so i dont have enough reputation to do so :( )
Any idea what it might be? Any help would be great!
I found the problem, i installed the latest version of java in the apt repository. This version was JDK9 which Eclipse does not support (At least not until Eclipse Oxygen). I purged the computerof JDK9 and installed JDK8 and everything worked fine!
Moral of the story, don't use JDK9 on Neon
I am running a dual boot windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04, I have similar issue where I can see all the file menu and the eclipse launched on the tool bar, I have selected the application and used ctrl+WindowsKey+left,right to split the application to half of my screen and then magically it appeared,Then I adjusted to fit to my screen.
Would a fresh install work? I didn't have any issues. Perhaps ask this on ask ubuntu, too.
I am using Lazarus 1.0.6 and FPC 2.6.0 and running it on PCLinuxOS Linux OS.
Every time I open Printers Dialog by calling printerdialog1.Execute, compiler raises the following error, "Project xxxxxx raised exception class 'Ereaderror' with the message: Unknown property 'Caption'." Then, my whole program crashes and had to restart the program for it run properly.
What do you think is the problem and how do you fix it?
This dialog is from Printers4Lazarus package.
I solved my exception problem. As they say, there is always a simple solution to every problem.
Being that I was in the middle of setting up my IDE, I have gone through many tool installation and uninstallation and different version of it too. Somehow things got mixed up and my IDE was pointing to a printers4lazarus version that didn't work with the IDE. So, I simply uninstalled and deleted the folder it was pointing to and then restarted Lazarus IDE. It then pointed to the right folder for Printers4Lazarus component which was /usr/bin/lib64/Lazarus/components/.
So, if you are having similar problem, simply start from scratch. remove or uninstall the component from your IDE. Then, rename the folder where the component is located if you have to. Restart your IDE. If you are still having problem, then you need to check to see where your IDE is pointing to for this package. The idea is to start from scratch, install the package and then see if you still having problem.
Good Luck.
I have about a few problems with a new install of the Qt SDK. I probably only need advice, but specific answers are also welcome. Before I begin a mini-story, I am running RHEL5 on academic license under VirtualBox on OSX 10.6. Using Qt version 4.5.3. This is my situation...
1.) I couldn't compile because g++ wasn't found. I fixed this by creating a link: g++ -> g++34. This allowed me to compile but it generated more errors at link-time. I had installed the framework in my home directory unintentionally so I uninstalled/reinstalled the entire SDK to /usr/local/qt.
2.) At this point I could compile but the linker complained about a missing freetype package. I had that already installed but wasn't sure why it couldn't be found. So I installed a few packages that I thought might be missing like libqt4-devel and libqt4-devel-debug. I also installed a few other general programming packages for later use.
3.) Somehwere in this process I can no longer run qmake. I ran it before and I have it installed at /usr/local/qt/qt/bin/qmake. I could create a link to it (though I shouldn't have to OR I could ensure that the location was in the PATH var). However, at this point Qt Creator says there's no Qt installation found. I re-pointed it to the installation location (using Tools/Options) but it still won't run qmake or anything else for that matter...
I only need this linux install to compile and test my Qt projects which I am developing in OSX. So my question is, should I just wipe this RHEL install and start over? And if so, should I use something else like Ubuntu? I am having plenty of hassles that I don't want to deal with as is. Note, this project will require good OpenGL support.
Is there a particular reason that you don't simply use the Qt package that's part of RHEL?
If for some reason you need to build your own, you can get all of the build dependancies with:
$ yum install yum-utils
$ yum-builddep <whatever the qt package's name is>
#scotchi is right, and you should try to use the Qt package that comes with your system unless you need a very different version. I don't know what version of Qt comes with RHEL but if its not up-to-date enough for you (and it might not be, see below) then you could consider changing OS versions. I would only do this after trying his suggestion though, because you may be able to get things working without the hassle of a full OS install.
Now, as to why you might want to switch: RHEL is, as its name ("Enterprise Linux") indicates aimed at companies who want to run servers, or large deployments of desktops. It emphasizes stability and reliability over being cutting edge. Fairly often the version of the compiler and development libraries lag a little behind the curve. This is what their clients want: a stable platform they can develop against and run programs on for a period of time, not constantly needing to keep up with the latest changes, and thoroughly tested. But for people doing development at home it may not be necessary to stay that conservative. I don't know if this is for work, school or personal programming, but it sounds to me like you should move to one of the more desktop-oriented distros. Ubuntu is great, as is Fedora. If you prefer a RHEL-like environment, then choose Fedora.