Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 16:46:34 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygserver service won't start Message-ID: <20040912144634.GE17670@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20040909080829.GC2953@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20040910080758.GE468@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20040911123916.GA8906@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Sep 11 13:06, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Alder wrote: > > On a perfect platform, perhaps, but like I said, I really had to add it > > because without it there a Windows dialog would pop up when I ran cygserver > > telling me that 'Cygwin1.dll' could not be found. That was also true on my > > previous installation, and one of the reasons I thought it best to reinstall. This is weird. I never observed that and I installed a lot of services using cygrunsrv on a good number of machines. > I'm observing similar behavior, but it looks like our causes may be > different. Igor, out with your debugging experiences! > If your cygcheck showed that you have check_case:strict in your CYGWIN > variable, I'd've guessed that this is another instance of the bug I > reported on the cygwin-developers list (where the PATH got truncated on > converting it back to Win32 format). The fact that cygrunsrv *appends* > /bin to the PATH, whereas you *prepend* it, seems to argue strongly for > this. > > Just for the sake of completeness, though, could you please try adding a > service that basically invokes cmd.exe with '-c "echo %PATH%"' as > arguments, and see what the PATH is in the log after starting the service? Yes, I would be curios as well. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/