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Subject:	Re: Cygwin/OpenSSH: Error "spawn_guts: CreateDesktop failed, win32 error 8"
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 03:17:22PM +0100, Carsten DOT Porzler AT spb DOT de wrote:
>Dear Cygwin community,
>
>some of our server show the following error during login by SSH:
>
>3 [main] sshd 5744 spawn_guts: CreateDesktop failed, Win32 error 8
>
>This error message occurs at the console of the SSH client. It happens 
>only after a reboot of the SSHd running server.
>
>After logon as an administrator at the Windows-Console (e.g. by RDP) of 
>the server, which runs the SSHd service, everything works fine. 
>
>We are running:
>
>Cygwin:         CYGWIN_NT-5.2 d20of001 1.7.0(0.200/5/3) 2009-02-20 17:20 
>i686 Cygwin
>OpenSSH:        OpenSSH_5.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8j 07 Jan 2009
>
>Thanks a lot in advance and

First thing to try would be updating cygwin.  2009-09-20 was a long time ago.

The second thing to try would be providing the details suggested at:

http://cygwin.com/problems.html

cgf

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