On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 07:23:08PM +0300, Matthias Andree wrote: >Greetings, > >I have observed multiple times, and reproduced, that Setup 2.693 >overwriting "in-use files" and rebooting WILL NOT replace those in-use >files. Notably cygwin1.dll. > >Windows 7 Pro, 32-bit, with 4 cygrunsrv services (exim, cron, cygserver, >sshd). > >Reproduce: > >1. stop services >2. install some cygwin1.dll with a distinct version that you can recognize > from "uname -a" (in my case, snapshot 20100331) >3. start services >4. launch setup.exe (version 2.693) >5. pick cygwin-1.7.3-1 for Reinstall >6. next/continue until... >7. setup.exe complains about files in use - cygwin1.dll, retry/continue >(continue requires reboot) >8. click continue >9. setup completes, reminds me to reboot >10. reboot >11. uname -a still shows cygwin1.dll 20100331 is in use. > >What's up? Can I help to debug this?
It works fine on Windows XP. I can't test Windows 7 easily. Corinna do you have time to test this? Matthias what does setup.log.full say? Does it indicate if setup thought it had successfully scheduled a rename-on-reboot? cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
