Re: 1.7.29-2: Exception from cygwin_gethostname

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Apr 10 10:12, David Rothenberger wrote:
> David Rothenberger wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> Hi David, Hi Ken [in CC],
> >>
> >> On Apr  7 13:50, David Rothenberger wrote:
> >>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> >>>> On 4/7/2014 3:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>>>> On Apr  7 11:49, David Rothenberger wrote:
> >>>>>> I'm having a problem doing hostname resolution on one of my
> >>>>>> Windows 7 64 machines after updating cygwin to 1.7.29-2. I
> >>>>>> first noticed it with ssh. I get an error whenever I try to
> >>>>>> ssh to any machine using a hostname; it complains the
> >>>>>> hostname cannot be resolved.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> An strace of ssh shows an exception occuring right after
> >>>>>> the call to cygwin_gethostname is logged.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 96   58624 [main] ssh 3536 cygwin_gethostname: name
> >>>>>> daver-pc --- Process 3536, exception 000006ba at
> >>>>>> 000007FEFDD4940D 860   59484 [main] ssh 3536 __set_errno:
> >>>>>> void san::leave():315 setting errno 14
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Exception 0x6ba is "The RPC server is unavailable".  I have
> >>>>> no idea why this exception is generated at all on your
> >>>>> machine.  Usually this is a first-chance exception only,
> >>>>> which can be ignored, but this is the first time I ever saw
> >>>>> this and in the above scenario there's no such exception 
> >>>>> expected, so it doesn't get ignored.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Oh well, it would have been helpful if this had been
> >>>>> encountered last week :(
> >>
> >> I have uploaded a new snapshot to http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots/
> >> which is supposed to workaround this problem by only handling the
> >> very exceptions the exception handler was designed to handle at
> >> this point. Can you please check if this works for you?
> > 
> > Thanks, Corinna. That solves my problem.
> > 
> > A co-worker had a slightly different problem with 1.7.29-2. I'll test
> > the snapshot on his machine as soon as he's available today and report
> > back.
> 
> The snapshot fixes the problem on my co-worker's machine as well. Thanks
> again!

Cool!  Thanks for your testing.


Corinna

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