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: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:30:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: John Griffiths cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Installation of cygserver as a Win2k service says it fails to start but ps show it as running. In-Reply-To: <43627AC0.6070803@grifent.com> Message-ID: References: <43627AC0.6070803@grifent.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII; FORMAT=flowed Content-ID: On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, John Griffiths wrote: > After installing cygwin, I install some cygwin applications as Windows > services using cygrunsrv, for instance, cygserver. > > Administrator@snowwhite ~ > $ cygrunsrv -S cygserver > cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 > error 1062: > The service has not been started. > > The service shows up in the Windows services but not as started. Trying to > start the service fails because it is already running. I've reported this in . This seems to be fixed in the snapshots. > The only way I have found to clear up the situation is to format the > hard drive and reinstall Win2k which is a bit drastic. I hope there is a > better solution. I tried searching the archives but did not see a > solution or even the same problem. Try a snapshot (). HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/