-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Forgive me if this is a FAQ; I checked the FAQ, the User's Guide, and the mailiing list archive without turning up anything that looked promising.
,----[ Problem Summary ] | I updated my cygwin installation on 2004-11-15; since then, I can't run | PostgreSQL because cygserver is hung in a starting state. `---- I had updated my Windows XP Pro system previously on 2004-11-03, and all seemed okay (even if I don't run PostgreSQL daily, I do a backup every day or two, and the backup runs pgdumpall). On 2004-11-15, I ran setup.exe, and it wanted to update (IIRC) three groups: cygwin base, cygwin1, and postgresql. I selected "keep" for postgresql (I didn't have time to do a backup in case I needed to restore), and I let it update the other two. I seem to recall a popup window saying it couldn't install cygwin1.dll or some such, but I was busy and just closed it. I then rebooted, as requested (and have done so 1 or 2 more times since then). Here is the (hopefully) pertinent section from setup.log: ...................................................................... 2004/11/15 19:51:14 site: http://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/sourceware/cygwin 2004/11/15 19:51:57 Downloaded C:\Documents and Settings\Bill Harris\Desktop/http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.rcn.net%2fpub%2fsourceware%2fcygwin/release/base-files/base-files-3.1-4.tar.bz2 2004/11/15 19:52:11 Downloaded C:\Documents and Settings\Bill Harris\Desktop/http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.rcn.net%2fpub%2fsourceware%2fcygwin/release/cygwin/cygwin-1.5.12-1.tar.bz2 2004/11/15 19:52:11 Uninstalling base-files 2004/11/15 19:52:11 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/preremove/base-files.sh 2004/11/15 19:52:13 Uninstalling cygwin 2004/11/15 19:52:15 Installing file://C:\Documents and Settings\Bill Harris\Desktop/http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.rcn.net%2fpub%2fsourceware%2fcygwin/release/base-files/base-files-3.1-4.tar.bz2 2004/11/15 19:52:15 Installing file://C:\Documents and Settings\Bill Harris\Desktop/http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.rcn.net%2fpub%2fsourceware%2fcygwin/release/cygwin/cygwin-1.5.12-1.tar.bz2 2004/11/15 19:52:16 Failed to open cygfile:///usr/bin/cygwin1.dll for writing. 2004/11/15 19:52:17 Scheduled reboot replacement of file C:\cygwin/bin//cygwin1.dll with C:\cygwin/bin//cygwin1.dll.new 2004/11/15 19:52:21 Failed to open cygfile:///usr/sbin/cygserver.exe for writing. 2004/11/15 19:52:21 Scheduled reboot replacement of file C:\cygwin/usr/sbin/cygserver.exe with C:\cygwin/usr/sbin/cygserver.exe.new 2004/11/15 19:52:22 mbox note: In-use files have been replaced. You need to reboot as soon as possible to activate the new versions. Cygwin may operate incorrectly until you reboot. 2004/11/15 19:52:27 Visited: 120 nodes out of 533. ...................................................................... Later I tried to run a backup, and it failed. Postmaster was not running; when I tried to start it with Windows Services, it said postmaster couldn't run because cygserver was starting (error 1068). I checked: CYGWIN cygserver and CYGWIN cron were the only two processes with a Starting status, and cygserver was in its dependency group. If I right-click on cygserver, all of the Start, Stop, ... Restart options are grayed out. It's set to Automatic startup, path is C:\cygwin\bin\cygrunsrv.exe, it will log on as Local System account, and the only component depending upon it is postmaster. Cygwin bash shell starts up fine today, and setup can run just fine (I again set postgresql to "keep"), but cygserver won't finish starting. I made my last backup 2004-11-10, so that's the last time I can easily prove postmaster was running, although I may have been running it at least one day later. The CYGWIN variable is set to server, as required. /etc/cygserver.conf has only one option uncommented: kern.ipc.semmns 100 Any thoughts about anything that changed in the last few days which could account for this? Any data I should check to research this more? Thanks, Bill - -- Bill Harris Facilitated Systems http://facilitatedsystems.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: For more information, see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFBmivS3J3HaQTDvd8RAvHhAJ9JVaJgc/tzJQdKFDFbn/WH/l0ztwCfTh7d BRKe6PXOMfQBWZyQzJJVHyA= =z+Th -----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/
