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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 10:12:23 -0700
From: David Rothenberger <daveroth@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: 1.7.29-2: Exception from cygwin_gethostname
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David Rothenberger wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> Hi David, Hi Ken [in CC],
>>
>> On Apr  7 13:50, David Rothenberger wrote:
>>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>>> On 4/7/2014 3:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>> On Apr  7 11:49, David Rothenberger wrote:
>>>>>> I'm having a problem doing hostname resolution on one of my
>>>>>> Windows 7 64 machines after updating cygwin to 1.7.29-2. I
>>>>>> first noticed it with ssh. I get an error whenever I try to
>>>>>> ssh to any machine using a hostname; it complains the
>>>>>> hostname cannot be resolved.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> An strace of ssh shows an exception occuring right after
>>>>>> the call to cygwin_gethostname is logged.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 96   58624 [main] ssh 3536 cygwin_gethostname: name
>>>>>> daver-pc --- Process 3536, exception 000006ba at
>>>>>> 000007FEFDD4940D 860   59484 [main] ssh 3536 __set_errno:
>>>>>> void san::leave():315 setting errno 14
>>>>>
>>>>> Exception 0x6ba is "The RPC server is unavailable".  I have
>>>>> no idea why this exception is generated at all on your
>>>>> machine.  Usually this is a first-chance exception only,
>>>>> which can be ignored, but this is the first time I ever saw
>>>>> this and in the above scenario there's no such exception 
>>>>> expected, so it doesn't get ignored.
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh well, it would have been helpful if this had been
>>>>> encountered last week :(
>>
>> I have uploaded a new snapshot to http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots/
>> which is supposed to workaround this problem by only handling the
>> very exceptions the exception handler was designed to handle at
>> this point. Can you please check if this works for you?
> 
> Thanks, Corinna. That solves my problem.
> 
> A co-worker had a slightly different problem with 1.7.29-2. I'll test
> the snapshot on his machine as soon as he's available today and report
> back.

The snapshot fixes the problem on my co-worker's machine as well. Thanks
again!

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