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Re: services not starting with 20060104 snapshot
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 09:02:52PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 08:29:09PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>
>>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 07:24:16PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>It appears your supposition is right. The first call to
>>>>>CreateWindowStation() fails for me. Reason = "Access is denied". So
>>>>>there is some weird permissions problem. I'll see if I can find
>>>>>something...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>But, it didn't fail in the strace log that you sent me a couple of days
>>>>ago. That seems pretty strange to me.
>>>
>>>Yeah, I'm with you. Maybe I'll try putting back the CreateWindowStation
>>>call
>>>to be what it was and make sure I can reproduce the desired behavior.
>>>Yes,
>>>a sanity check makes some sense to me at this point. :-)
>>
>>
>>You have reinstalled cygwin at least 14 times, right? This is a really
>>thorny problem so I think a whole bunch of reinstalls are called for.
>
>Yes, I think you're right. ;-)
>
>Actually, what I did find is that "ignoring" the problem of
>CreateWindowStation failing like the code used to do solves the problem
>for me. I have to review the path that brought us here a little more
>to see what the CreateWindowStation() changes were supposed to fix. I've
>forgotten now (if I ever really had a clear understanding ;-) ).
That was supposed to fix the problem of console windows appearing when the
service is allowed to interact with the desktop.
cgf
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