Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> Earlier today I was updating my cygwin installation (WinXP, cygwin 1.7 >> as of a couple weeks ago) when the computer suddenly rebooted. >> Because there were so other things running at the time I assumed it >> was just bad mojo, but after doing things slow and methodical-like, I >> narrowed it down to a cygwin setup.exe postinstall step. It's 100% >> reproducible -- but I don't know which package is triggering it (as
> You can probably find out by running the scripts in /etc/postinstall, > those which are not renamed to *.done, one at a time. > However, Cygwin is only user-space stuff. If there's no explicit reboot > call in a postinstall script (which I doubt), then you're suffering some > more serious problem which is just accidentally triggered by an action > in the script. Note that the Cygwin DLL has no builtin code which would > reboot the machine. The only package which can do that is the shutdown > package, and that one has no postinstall script. What struck my mind while reading your reply - some antivirus software could reboot system in an attempt to prevent infection. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 11.02.2012, <16:50> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
