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: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:08:33 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: Windows update vs. cygrunsrv Message-ID: <20051012160832.GB2908@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: Cygwin List References: <101220051545.21471.434D2FA800096FCD000053DF22007613940A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <101220051545.21471.434D2FA800096FCD000053DF22007613940A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Oct 12 15:45, Eric Blake wrote: > I don't know it this was unique to my machine, but am > reporting it in case anyone else runs into the same > issue. 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 have the converse experience. I'm usually running three services under cygrunsrv (syslogd, sshd, esd) and today I used Windows Update, too, to get the latest security bugfixes. I had (and never had) problems to do this while my services were still running. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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/