services not starting with 20060104 snapshot

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

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 ;-) ).

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