From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21199 invoked by alias); 14 Oct 2005 14:45:27 -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 20997 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Oct 2005 14:45:15 -0000 Received: from gateway.scluk.com (HELO scluk.com) (217.207.104.174) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:45:15 +0000 Received: from [192.168.10.53] ([192.168.10.53]) by scluk.com (scluk.com) (MDaemon.PRO.v7.0.1.R) with ESMTP id md50000244908.msg for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:44:40 +0100 Message-ID: <434FC455.4060700@scluk.com> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:45:00 -0000 From: "Al Slater" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Windows update vs. cygrunsrv References: <101220051640.10789.434D3C710003099B00002A2522064246130A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <101220051640.10789.434D3C710003099B00002A2522064246130A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Processed: scluk.com, Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:44:40 +0100 (not processed: message from valid local sender) X-MDRemoteIP: 192.168.10.53 X-Return-Path: al.slater@scluk.com X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-MDAV-Processed: scluk.com, Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:44:42 +0100 X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2005-10/txt/msg00413.txt.bz2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Eric Blake wrote: >>>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. I had a similar experience this morning, except the DirectX update hung with inetd using all the CPU. Shutting down inetd allowed the update to complete. Al -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDT8RUz4fTOFL/EDYRAkjwAJ0YGyP+tB7U+Wwf6Ys82l4VJklwfwCfTMVO HPdCoBHadCCWNESfcGtRpv0= =oyNi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/