Re: Windows Restart Manager and cygrunsrv services
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 9:19 AM Bill Stewart wrote: > > Any ideas why Restart Manager doesn't work for cygrunsrv services? > ... > Question also posted on StackOverflow: > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59902201/ > > Any insights appreciated. According to my investigation and understanding as of this writing, the behavior appears to be as follows: 1. Restart Manager sees the cygrunsrv.exe executable correctly as a service and as restartable. This is good. 2. However, any executable spawned by cygrunsrv.exe as a service (e.g., sshd.exe), is seen as NOT restartable for some reason. This is not so good, and prevents the service from being restarted automatically by Restart Manager. I don't know the explanation for this behavior. It seems unintuitive and is confusing, at the least. Just a guess: Perhaps this behavior would be resolved if Cygwin executables used RegisterApplicationRestart[1] ? In any case, I have an imperfect workaround, but it would be good if this workaround wasn't necessary. Regards, Bill __ [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/recovery/registering-for-application-restart -- 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
Re: Windows Restart Manager and cygrunsrv services
On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:44 AM Bill Stewart wrote: > However it seems that when running a service using cygrunsrv, the > Restart Manager RmGetList API[2] returns RmRebootReasonSessionMismatch > (2) for the lpdwRebootReasons output parameter. > > This parameter return value is one of the RM_REBOOT_REASON enumeration > values[3]. > > The description for the RmRebootReasonSessionMismatch value on MSDN is > as follows: "One or more processes are running in another Terminal > Services session." > > I ran into this building an Inno Setup installer. I reproduced on > Windows 10 x64 and Windows Server 2008 R2 x64. > > The error description is interesting, because in neither repro case > were there other users logged on using TS sessions. (I'm not sure if > that error description is completely accurate in describing all cases > where that value gets returned, though...) > > Unexpected behavior: Restart Manager returns 2 > (RmRebootReasonSessionMismatch) in the lpdwRebootReasons output > parameter when calling the RmGetList API to detect a cygrunsrv > service. > > Expected behavior: Restart Manager should return 0 > (RmRebootReasonNone) in the lpdwRebootReasons output parameter when > calling the RmGetList API to detect a cygrunsrv service. > > Further details (regarding Inno Setup and this problem): > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/innosetup/9dAT3wB9RTQ/99Py-ZgLCgAJ > > Any ideas why Restart Manager doesn't work for cygrunsrv services? > > Thanks! > > Bill > > > > [1] > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/rstmgr/about-restart-manager > > [2] > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/restartmanager/nf-restartmanager-rmgetlist > > [3] > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/restartmanager/ne-restartmanager-rm_reboot_reason Question also posted on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59902201/ Any insights appreciated. Thanks! Bill -- 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
