Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/10/12/12:05:55
Eric Blake wrote:
> When running Microsoft update today, on Win2k,
> the patch for Security Update for DirectX 9 for Windows
> 2000 (KB904706) hung during installation, with an
> instance of cygrunsrv hogging 100% CPU, until I had
> stopped every last one of my cygrunsrv processes. I
> don't know what the Microsoft update was trying to do
> to running services during the update, but it obviously
> didn't interact very well with cygrunsrv.
I don't think the Microsoft update process is compatible even with
running Microsoft applications, so I make a practice of shutting cygwin
down entirely. I ran the updates, including Office 2003SP2, without
major incident yesterday, on Win2K, WinXP-32, and WinXP-64, total of 4
installations, with cygwin installed but shut down. It did take over an
hour on the system which is on an ordinary DSL line. There were plenty
of pop-ups interspersed on the XP systems, about RealPlayer needing an
update but the site being down, or CA anti-virus not being in a mode
acceptable to Microsoft. As you know, Microsoft is not very sympathetic
to people who want to avoid down time for applications not purchased
from them.
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