FW: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.5

[Habermann, David (D)]

On Nov  5 22:38, Habermann, David (D) wrote:
>> It would appear, after a bit more digging, that this problem is
>> related to some timeout issues.  Most of the time the ssh login goes
>> rapidly, but occasionally it takes quite a lot longer triggering the
>> expect default timeout.  When setting the timeout substantially
>> longer, the reliability goes up substantially.

> Such phases wher checking for an account takes a bit longer just happen.
> I don't see that Cygwin has this really under control.  Local caching
> should alleviate this somewhat.

Seems that this is not taken care of by caching...I have cygserver running first, prior to anything else, and what I was finding was that the problem was intermittent, 20 rapid-fire tries would result in 2-3 random failures.