Karl M wrote: > I think it may be related to your update to cygwin-1.5.13-1. This is a > symptom that I was seeing also, but only on one machine (XP SP2 laptop) > and only on some reboots. Please try a snapshot and report the results.
This is also an XP SP2 laptop. It's a Dell D600. > Another experiment is to reboot, and wait for the disk activity to stop. > That is, to wait until the reboot is really finished. Then try ssh-add. > That would be worth trying with both 1.5.13-1 and with a snapshot. > > Please tell me about your system configuration. Are you running > ssh-agent and or keychain as a service? I am running ssh-add manually. I don't use keychain at all and I am not running ssh-agent as a service either. I run it manually as part of my .profile. I only ever run one cygwin session so this is not a problem. I also usually run a pdksh X-windows session using Cygwin's X server. > What may be going on is that after boot-up, the machine is busy and the > new pipe code slows down (see postings from cgf). For me, this was > causing a race at startup. When I prevented the race, it prevented the > problem...but I don't think I found the problem, just sent it back into > hiding. To me it appears to be some sort of initialization problem. The first time I run ssh-add it hangs forever, regardless of how long I wait before starting it after booting. If I interrupt it, and run it again, it immediately prompts for the passphrase and everything starts working as it did prior to installing cygwin-1.5.13-1. Is there a snapshot available somewhere? I normally don't install anything but production releases. -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
