From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9395 invoked by alias); 12 Oct 2005 16:40:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 9385 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Oct 2005 16:40:34 -0000 Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (HELO rwcrmhc11.comcast.net) (216.148.227.117) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:40:34 +0000 Received: from 204.127.197.111 (rmailcenter75.comcast.net[204.127.197.157]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with SMTP id <2005101216401701300jvbpqe>; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:40:20 +0000 Received: from [128.170.36.44] by 204.127.197.111; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:40:17 +0000 From: ericblake@comcast.net (Eric Blake) To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Windows update vs. cygrunsrv Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:40:00 -0000 Message-Id: <101220051640.10789.434D3C710003099B00002A2522064246130A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> X-SW-Source: 2005-10/txt/msg00314.txt.bz2 > > I don't know it this was unique to my machine, but am > > reporting it in case anyone else runs into the same > > issue. When running Microsoft update today, on Win2k, > > the patch for Security Update for DirectX 9 for Windows > > 2000 (KB904706) hung during installation, with an > > instance of cygrunsrv hogging 100% CPU, until I had > > stopped every last one of my cygrunsrv processes. I > > don't know what the Microsoft update was trying to do > > to running services during the update, but it obviously > > didn't interact very well with cygrunsrv. > > I have the converse experience. I'm usually running three services > under cygrunsrv (syslogd, sshd, esd) and today I used Windows Update, > too, to get the latest security bugfixes. I had (and never had) > problems to do this while my services were still running. I usually leave my services up, as well; this was the first time I had a hang. Today's Win2k patch list contained 10 patches, and it was only the 1 patch for KB904706 that hung. So it's not the update process in general, but that particular patch, that I was complaining about. -- Eric Blake -- 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/