Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/01/05/21:03:14
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 08:29:09PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>
>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 07:24:16PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>It appears your supposition is right. The first call to
>>>>CreateWindowStation() fails for me. Reason = "Access is denied". So
>>>>there is some weird permissions problem. I'll see if I can find
>>>>something...
>>>
>>>
>>>But, it didn't fail in the strace log that you sent me a couple of days
>>>ago. That seems pretty strange to me.
>>
>>Yeah, I'm with you. Maybe I'll try putting back the CreateWindowStation
>>call
>>to be what it was and make sure I can reproduce the desired behavior. Yes,
>>a sanity check makes some sense to me at this point. :-)
>
>
> You have reinstalled cygwin at least 14 times, right? This is a really
> thorny problem so I think a whole bunch of reinstalls are called for.
Yes, I think you're right. ;-)
Actually, what I did find is that "ignoring" the problem of
CreateWindowStation failing like the code used to do solves the problem
for me. I have to review the path that brought us here a little more
to see what the CreateWindowStation() changes were supposed to fix. I've
forgotten now (if I ever really had a clear understanding ;-) ).
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