-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Eric Blake wrote: >>>I don't know it this was unique to my machine, but am >>>reporting it in case anyone else runs into the same >>>issue. When running Microsoft update today, on Win2k, >>>the patch for Security Update for DirectX 9 for Windows >>>2000 (KB904706) hung during installation, with an >>>instance of cygrunsrv hogging 100% CPU, until I had >>>stopped every last one of my cygrunsrv processes. I >>>don't know what the Microsoft update was trying to do >>>to running services during the update, but it obviously >>>didn't interact very well with cygrunsrv. >> >>I have the converse experience. I'm usually running three services >>under cygrunsrv (syslogd, sshd, esd) and today I used Windows Update, >>too, to get the latest security bugfixes. I had (and never had) >>problems to do this while my services were still running. > > > I usually leave my services up, as well; this was the first time > I had a hang. Today's Win2k patch list contained 10 patches, > and it was only the 1 patch for KB904706 that hung. So it's not > the update process in general, but that particular patch, that I > was complaining about.
I had a similar experience this morning, except the DirectX update hung with inetd using all the CPU. Shutting down inetd allowed the update to complete. Al -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDT8RUz4fTOFL/EDYRAkjwAJ0YGyP+tB7U+Wwf6Ys82l4VJklwfwCfTMVO HPdCoBHadCCWNESfcGtRpv0= =oyNi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/