I've just installed cygwin 1.7 on a WinXP SP3 machine that used to have 1.5 installed. Since I didn't want to run them in parallel, first I deleted my c:\cygwin folder, then used regedit to get rid of the "Cygnus Solutions" and "Cygwin" registry keys from HKLM/Software and HKCU/Software to do as clean an install as possible.
I ran the new setup-1.7.exe and installed the system for "All Users". I ran cygserver-setup once everything was done, and it reported success. When I ran "cygrunsrv -S cygserver", I got the error cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion. The service is in a "Start Pending" state for a VERY long time (on the order of 5 minutes or so), then it silently goes back to "Stopped". I get this same behavior with "net start cygserver" or by trying to start it from the Services control panel. I can't find anything in Event Viewer or in cygserver.log (indeed, nothing is in there) giving details of the problem, except this entry in the Application node of the Event Viewer: "The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( cygserver ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: cygserver: PID 4520: starting service `cygserver' failed: fork: 11, Resource temporarily unavailable." running /usr/sbin/cygserver from the command line works just fine. I HAVE been able to start cygserver successfully a couple of times, but I couldn't reproduce my successes or narrow down what might have allowed it to start one time versus the next. The fact that I can start it (albeit rarely) makes me think it's not a permissions issue on /etc/cygserver.conf or /var/log/cygserver.log, but I suppose it could be. Output from "cygrunsrv -Q cygserver -V" Service : cygserver Display name : CYGWIN cygserver Current State : Stopped Command : /usr/sbin/cygserver stdin path : /dev/null stdout path : /var/log/cygserver.log stderr path : /var/log/cygserver.log Process Type : Own Process Startup : Automatic Account : LocalSystem -- SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue > 0
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