From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 58251 invoked by alias); 24 Jan 2017 19:53:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 58234 invoked by uid 89); 24 Jan 2017 19:53:52 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-101.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,GOOD_FROM_CORINNA_CYGWIN,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=person, H*F:D*cygwin.com, cygwin@cygwin.com, cygwincygwincom X-HELO: drew.franken.de Received: from mail-n.franken.de (HELO drew.franken.de) (193.175.24.27) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 24 Jan 2017 19:53:41 +0000 Received: from aqua.hirmke.de (aquarius.franken.de [193.175.24.89]) (Authenticated sender: aquarius) by mail-n.franken.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9C204721E280D for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:53:37 +0100 (CET) Received: from calimero.vinschen.de (calimero.vinschen.de [192.168.129.6]) by aqua.hirmke.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 091B85E01EC for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:53:37 +0100 (CET) Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id E1A75A80CD5; Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:53:36 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 19:53:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Please report this problem to the public mailing list... Message-ID: <20170124195336.GG3385@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <0D835E9B9CD07F40A48423F80D3B5A704BBDC825@USA7109MB022.na.xerox.net> <20170124195055.GF3385@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="47eKBCiAZYFK5l32" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170124195055.GF3385@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04) X-SW-Source: 2017-01/txt/msg00302.txt.bz2 --47eKBCiAZYFK5l32 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1936 On Jan 24 20:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 24 10:32, cyg Simple wrote: > > On 1/24/2017 10:21 AM, Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent) wrote: > > > We have received several postings of people responding to the Cygwin-= generated=20 > > > message: WARNING: ... Please report this problem to the public mailin= g list > > > cygwin@cygwin.com. > > >=20 > > > I wonder how many places such messages are present in the Cygwin code. > > >=20 > > > Just throwing out an idea here to help people help themselves... > > >=20 > > > Consider all such messages carrying an error code and referred to a C= ygwin web=20 > > > page that contained links to separate pages for each error code, and = those pages,=20 > > > then, would contain the latest information as to how to recover from = the=20 > > > respective errors. > > >=20 > >=20 > > Great idea. I can see this > >=20 > > > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > >=20 > > being referenced instead of the mail list which the person may not be > > subscribed to. Care to present a patch to the web page? And we need a > > patch to the text parts of Cygwin to point to the web page. >=20 > If somebody cares to write a patch for a new FAQ entry, I change the > Cygwin source to point it out. >=20 > On second thought, Cygwin should probably simple tell the user to update > the outdated Cygwin installation instead. Oh, wait. The current text already *is*: Cygwin WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer. 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 persis= ts, please see https://cygwin.com/problems.html However, this doesn't help with very old and 3PP installations. 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