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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:38:41 -0400
From: John Griffiths <fedora AT grifent DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Installation of cygserver as a Win2k service says it fails to   start but ps show it as running.
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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 AT 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 
> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-10/msg00808.html>.
> 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 (<http://cygwin.com/snapshots/>).
> HTH,
>     Igor


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