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From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: "Yadin Y. Goldschmidt" <yadin AT pitt DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: problem with starting services in 1.5.19
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On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Yadin Y. Goldschmidt wrote:

> See comments below
> "Igor Peshansky" pechtcha AT XXXXXX wrote in message news:
> > Ugh, top-posting...  Reformatted.
> >
> > On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Yadin Y. Goldschmidt wrote:
> >
> > > The problem is very similar to problems Igor Peschansky and others had
> > > in the past with XP SP1, apparently because of changes made on 01/04
> > > concerning fhandler_console?
> >
> > That was due to a Cygwin bug that has since been fixed.
> >
> > > I run SP2 but I still have a problem. If I only run one service on
> > > reboot it will start but if I try to run 2 services on reboot one would
> > > hang.
> > >
> > > From the command line none will start. There is nothing in cron.log or
> > > sshd.log since they don't even start. No I don't run any firewall
> > > besides xp built in firewall and Symantec corporate antivirus. As I said
> > > there is no problem at all with 1.5.18 and I never had any problems
> > > before. This is very frustrating.
> >
> > When you say "none will start from the command line", what is the exact
> > command line you're using?  Are you starting them as SYSTEM, or as a
> > regular user?
>
> from the command line I mean typing
> cygrunsrv -S cron
> or
> cygrunsrv -S shhd
> it starts with 1.5.18. Eith 1.5.19 I get
> "cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1053:
> The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely
> fashion"
> and there is a hanged cygrunsrv in "ps -a"
>      PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID  TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
>     2004       1    2004       2004  con 1004 11:38:52 /usr/bin/bash
>      164       1     164        164    ?   18 11:39:10 /usr/bin/cygrunsrv
>     2384    2004    2384       3600  con 1004 11:39:26 /usr/bin/ps
> with no cron or shhd.
> Now I run it as a user with Administrative power. I don't know how to open a
> bash shell
> as SYSTEM. How do you do that?

Googling for "syste-owned shell" (with quotes) points your right at the
thread with the relevant shortcut.

> > > Were the changes to fhandler_console really necessary?
> > > Any other suggestions? Igor, Larry, Chris?
> >
> > Try opening a SYSTEM-owned bash shell and starting the service program
> > explicitly, with the same arguments that cygrunsrv would give it (see
> > "cygrunsrv --verbose -Q SERVICENAME" for those arguments).  If this
> > doesn't work either, we've ruled out cygrunsrv.
> As I said I dont know how to open a SYSTEM-owned bash shell

Let us know if the above works for you.
	Igor
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