On Jun 25 11:59, Hiya Z wrote:
> >Btw., I can't reproduce this problem.  Cygwin's sshd service always
> >starts for me at boottime as expected.
> 
> >Did you check if the log file in /var/log contains any more info?
> 
> I see nothing in /var/log/sshd.log. Windows event log shows following
> errors:
> 
> --
> Error      6/20/2018 3:45:19 PM   Service Control Manager
> 7009      None
> A timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the sshd
> service to connect.
> 
> Error      6/20/2018 3:45:19 PM   Service Control Manager
> 7000      None
> The sshd service failed to start due to the following error:
> The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely
> fashion.
> --
> 
> Another odd behavior that I observe is that after a reboot, starting a
> Cygwin64 terminal (first time) takes a long time. Launching subsequent
> mintty terminals is quick as it should be. Could it be that sshd startup
> upon reboot is hitting the same delay as the 1st mintty?
> 
> Will try removing %SystemRoot%\System32\OpenSSH from the PATH to see if it
> improves things.

I didn't remove it and it works fine for me.  The OpenSSH path is
pretty late in $PATH and should not affect starting with cygrunsrv
because it prepends /bin to $PATH before running the service...
unless you used the -e option to cygrunsrv to infuse your own $PATH.


Corinna

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