On 31 October 2010 17:39, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 31 October 2010 17:12, Brian Wilson wrote: >> In my case the context was that suddenly ssh stopped working and would only >> give the usage message no matter what I tried. I ran the "cygcheck -svr" and >> noted that I did not have the latest Cygwin (1.7.7) installed even though >> running setup said there was nothing needed. > > Which probably means that you'd tried to update the cygwin package > while a Cygwin process was running, told it to skip it when setup.exe > complained about it, and forgot to reboot to trigger the delayed > update. There have been reports of the delayed update not working > under some circumstances, but nothing definitive.
Also, make sure you're using the latest setup.exe. A problem with the handling of in-use packages was fixed earlier this year. Andy -- 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
