From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11340 invoked by alias); 16 Nov 2011 07:59:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 11329 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Nov 2011 07:59:50 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_DB,TW_FD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (HELO smtprelay01.ispgateway.de) (80.67.31.24) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:59:18 +0000 Received: from [80.67.16.116] (helo=webmailfront01.ispgateway.de) by smtprelay01.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1RQaOq-00052T-N1 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:59:16 +0100 Received: from alf.medizin.uni-ulm.de (alf.medizin.uni-ulm.de [134.60.192.14]) by webmail.df.eu (Horde Framework) with HTTP; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:59:16 +0100 Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:59:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20111116085916.Horde.oe3MALuWis5Ow21UoD8BO5A@webmail.df.eu> From: Markus Hoenicka To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: troubles with forking program (not the usual probs though...) References: <20111115193830.Horde.LGKYH0lCcOxOwrGmoiHw0iA@webmail.df.eu> In-Reply-To: <20111115193830.Horde.LGKYH0lCcOxOwrGmoiHw0iA@webmail.df.eu> User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H4 (5.0.14) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; DelSp=Yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline X-Df-Sender: bWFya3VzLmhvZW5pY2thQG1ob2VuaWNrYS5kZQ== X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-11/txt/msg00258.txt.bz2 Markus Hoenicka was heard to complain: > Hi all, > > I've managed to screw up a forking program (refdbd, from > http://refdb.sourceforge.net) in an attempt to install R which I > need at work. This does not look like the widely reported fork > failures as I do not get any diagnostic output - things just don't > work as expected anymore. setup ran uneventfully, except that it > failed to upgrade libatk the first time as it was probably in use, > so I ran setup a second time after closing all programs. I've > appended the log of both runs just in case. > [...] After a few hours of sleep I Looked at the update log again. Only binutils (containing the linker) and mysql-related packages (refdbd was set up to use the MySQL client library) were likely to affect refdbd. Downgrading binutils didn't help. Downgrading the MySQL-related packages was not possible as there are no previous versions available in setup. However, switching to a different database engine (sqlite3) made refdbd return to normal. Therefore I suspect that refdbd was screwed up by upgrading the MySQL client library. I'll follow up on this on the Cygwin Ports list. regards, Markus -- Markus Hoenicka http://www.mhoenicka.de AQ score 38 -- 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