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 Message-ID: <43627E41.8080901@grifent.com> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:38:41 -0400 From: John Griffiths User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Installation of cygserver as a Win2k service says it fails to start but ps show it as running. References: <43627AC0.6070803@grifent.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Thanks. It did this on a prior version too. I upgraded to the current version in hopes it was solved. I will try a snapshot on one of the systems, but for a general solution for our group, I am reluctant to use a non-production version. John Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > 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 -- 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/