Re: cygwin + windows update = lock up (W2K SP4)

2006-05-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 07:14:32PM +0200, Ludovic Drolez wrote: >A few months ago someone reported (subj=Windows update vs. cygrunsrv) that >windows update and cygrunsrv fails when trying to update multimedia programs on >windows (MP, iTunes, etc). cygrunsrv uses nearly all cpu. > >In fact, I use c

RE: cygwin + windows update = lock up (W2K SP4)

2006-05-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 02 May 2006 21:28, Brian Dessent wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > >> ...because for some reason, despite attaching the debugger, and despite >> having frozen every other thread and only left one running, every time I >> try to single step it, it just carries on running as if I'd told it to >> conti

Re: cygwin + windows update = lock up (W2K SP4)

2006-05-02 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Korn wrote: > ...because for some reason, despite attaching the debugger, and despite having > frozen every other thread and only left one running, every time I try to > single step it, it just carries on running as if I'd told it to continue. > Dunno why except perhaps the debugger isn't kee

RE: cygwin + windows update = lock up (W2K SP4)

2006-05-02 Thread Dave Korn
On 02 May 2006 19:13, Dave Korn wrote: > On 02 May 2006 18:15, Ludovic Drolez wrote: >> Any hints on how to debug this problem would be appreciated ! > > It's a waste of time posting random tracebacks I'm afraid. What we really > need to do is attach a debugger to the thread that is eating th

RE: cygwin + windows update = lock up (W2K SP4)

2006-05-02 Thread Dave Korn
On 02 May 2006 18:15, Ludovic Drolez wrote: > In fact, I use cygwin 1.5.19-4 and I can reproduce the bug with *any* cygwin > process (cygrunsrv, bash, cat, etc). > > To reproduce: > - run cmd.exe, go to the cygwin /bin directory and launch cat.exe > - on a W2K SP4, start windows update and install

Re: cygwin + windows update = lock up (W2K SP4)

2006-05-02 Thread Jay Abel
the only way to complete the update is to kill the cat. I tried this, my wife is furious, and the update is still stuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html