On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, David Hinds wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 06:22:35PM -0500, Larry Hall wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, I understand. This is certainly not your everyday issue, as you've
> > noticed. I suppose it's worthwhile to look at the settings for the Windows
> > firewall to see if it's being overly restrictive or limiting in some way.
> > Sorry, I don't have any other ideas other than getting down into it with
> > more details...
>
> Ok, this is really odd...
>
> I just noticed that every now and then, when I run a cygwin program
> with the new DLL, it actually does work. Maybe 10% of the time when I
> invoke a shell, I actually get a working shell, which then appears to
> be fully functional: all its children behave normally. Also, once I
> have a working shell running, I can also open new shells from the
> desktop and they work 100% of the time.
This suggests some sort of a problem with the Cygwin DLL initialization
code -- something that's very hard to debug. Try looking at the CVS
history for the Cygwin initialization code between the 1.5.5 and 1.5.6
releases.
As a workaround, you could try adding a Cygwin service that starts
automatically on reboot and would restart indefinitely until it starts up
successfully. It doesn't have to do anything fancy, a simple 'while true;
do sleep 600; done' should be enough. If my guess is correct, there's a
10% chance that the service will initialize the Cygwin DLL properly, and
you'll be able to use other Cygwin programs from that point on.
HTH,
Igor
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