X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:24:21 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup 2.693 unable to replace files through reboot Message-ID: <20100406182421.GA19588@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 07:23:08PM +0300, Matthias Andree wrote: >Greetings, > >I have observed multiple times, and reproduced, that Setup 2.693 >overwriting "in-use files" and rebooting WILL NOT replace those in-use >files. Notably cygwin1.dll. > >Windows 7 Pro, 32-bit, with 4 cygrunsrv services (exim, cron, cygserver, >sshd). > >Reproduce: > >1. stop services >2. install some cygwin1.dll with a distinct version that you can recognize > from "uname -a" (in my case, snapshot 20100331) >3. start services >4. launch setup.exe (version 2.693) >5. pick cygwin-1.7.3-1 for Reinstall >6. next/continue until... >7. setup.exe complains about files in use - cygwin1.dll, retry/continue >(continue requires reboot) >8. click continue >9. setup completes, reminds me to reboot >10. reboot >11. uname -a still shows cygwin1.dll 20100331 is in use. > >What's up? Can I help to debug this? It works fine on Windows XP. I can't test Windows 7 easily. Corinna do you have time to test this? Matthias what does setup.log.full say? Does it indicate if setup thought it had successfully scheduled a rename-on-reboot? cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple