X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <43BDCFCC.2090305@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 21:02:52 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050929 Thunderbird/1.0.7 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: services not starting with 20060104 snapshot References: <20060105203241.GA26305@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <43BDB8B0.8070600@cygwin.com> <20060106005917.GA1937@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <43BDC7E5.1070809@cygwin.com> <20060106015259.GC1937@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20060106015259.GC1937@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 08:29:09PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > >>Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >>>On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 07:24:16PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>> >>> >>>>It appears your supposition is right. The first call to >>>>CreateWindowStation() fails for me. Reason = "Access is denied". So >>>>there is some weird permissions problem. I'll see if I can find >>>>something... >>> >>> >>>But, it didn't fail in the strace log that you sent me a couple of days >>>ago. That seems pretty strange to me. >> >>Yeah, I'm with you. Maybe I'll try putting back the CreateWindowStation >>call >>to be what it was and make sure I can reproduce the desired behavior. Yes, >>a sanity check makes some sense to me at this point. :-) > > > You have reinstalled cygwin at least 14 times, right? This is a really > thorny problem so I think a whole bunch of reinstalls are called for. Yes, I think you're right. ;-) Actually, what I did find is that "ignoring" the problem of CreateWindowStation failing like the code used to do solves the problem for me. I have to review the path that brought us here a little more to see what the CreateWindowStation() changes were supposed to fix. I've forgotten now (if I ever really had a clear understanding ;-) ). -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/