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* Windows update vs. cygrunsrv
@ 2005-10-12 15:45 Eric Blake
  2005-10-12 16:05 ` Tim Prince
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  0 siblings, 6 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Eric Blake @ 2005-10-12 15:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Cygwin List

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.

Anyways, since stopping everything allowed the installation
to proceed, and the required reboot brought up a working
system, I don't know if it is worth trying to patch cygrunsrv
to behave nicer in the presence of whatever the Windows
upgrade was throwing at it.  Rather, I'm just posting this
as a sort of FYI for anyone else that might encounter the
same behavior.

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Eric Blake

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* Re: Windows update vs. cygrunsrv
@ 2005-10-12 16:40 Eric Blake
  2005-10-14 14:45 ` Al Slater
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Eric Blake @ 2005-10-12 16:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin

> > 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.

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2005-10-12 15:45 Windows update vs. cygrunsrv Eric Blake
2005-10-12 16:05 ` Tim Prince
2005-10-12 16:08 ` Corinna Vinschen
2005-10-12 16:35 ` Rolf Campbell
2005-10-12 18:03 ` Mike Stockman
2005-10-12 20:14   ` Gerrit P. Haase
2005-10-12 22:24 ` Brian Dessent
2005-10-13 13:49   ` Pavel Tsekov
2005-10-18 16:56     ` Jason Pyeron
2005-10-15 16:55 ` Where is documentation on bash "wait"? Siegfried Heintze
2005-10-15 18:12   ` Andrew DeFaria
2005-10-12 16:40 Windows update vs. cygrunsrv Eric Blake
2005-10-14 14:45 ` Al Slater

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