Strange Issue with Launching Cygwin bash and other Applications

Klemm, Michael michael.klemm@intel.com
Fri Feb 13 21:04:00 GMT 2015


Dear all,

After the last restart (and maybe also after an update of Cygwin last week), the first start of bash takes hideously long (about 2 minutes).  The same happens to programs like latexmk:

$ time latexmk --help
Latexmk: This is Latexmk, John Collins, 10 January 2015, version: 4.42.
[... more output ...]
Report bugs etc to John Collins <jcc8 at psu.edu>.

real    1m39.914s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.015s


I did an strace on latexmk and it seems that something is querying the Active Directory of my computers domain through the VPN:

1047703 1224686 [main] perl 11652 pwdgrp::fetch_account_from_windows: line: < XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
513639 1738325 [main] perl 11652 pwdgrp::fetch_account_from_windows: line: < XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX >
525120 2263445 [main] perl 11652 pwdgrp::fetch_account_from_windows: line: < XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX >
522731 2786176 [main] perl 11652 pwdgrp::fetch_account_from_windows: line: < XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX >
518198 3304374 [main] perl 11652 pwdgrp::fetch_account_from_windows: line: < XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX >

[I replaced the true group/account names for privacy reasons.]

Each query takes a little while and there are lots of them.  Some even take longer than a second.  This continues for quite a while until latexmk finally prints its help message.

I have found the queried the log of cygcheck.

How can I convince Cygwin (or one of its components) that this is bad idea and to avoid it?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Kind regards,
        -michael

Dr.-Ing. Michael Klemm
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