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Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7


Greetings, Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)!

>>Could you please do me a favor and repeat the test with a little deviation of
>>my previous suggestion?

>>1. Remove /etc/{nsswitch.conf,passwd,group} files. (Rename, move away - by
>>your choice.)
>>2. Stop cygserver, if it is running, and any other Cygwin-related programs.
>>3. Start the mintty (elevated, if need) with write access to /etc. Supposedly,
>>this will be slow.
>>4. Make sure id -G lists all the groups you're member of.
>>The `id -znG | tr "\0" "\n"` would probably be more visible.
>>5. Repeat the steps from previous suggestion.
>>    getent passwd $(id -u) > /etc/passwd
>>    getent group $(id -G) > /etc/group
>>    printf "%s\n" "passwd: files db" "group: files db" > /etc/nsswitch.conf
>> 6. Close and restart mintty

> After I'd run the id -znG, it found 87 groups.
> Then I did this (even with cygserver running)

> ~ getent passwd $(id -u) > /etc/passwd
> ~ getent group $(id -G) > /etc/group
>       0 [main] getent 48156 transport_layer_pipes::connect: lost connection to cygserver, error = 2

That prompts to repeat the previous question from Corinna: are you by chance
remote from your DC? (VPN connection?)

> ~ wc -l /etc/group
> 58 /etc/group

> Since it seems like cygserver stopped, it took a while to complete.
> Anyway, with cygserver stopped, I ran the getent again elevated and got 83.
> ~ wc -l /etc/group
> 83 /etc/group

83 vs. 87, still not the right number.

> Not really sure how many groups I'm a member of (in another tool), but seems about right.

Anyway, how was the results after these manipulations?


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 18.02.2015, <13:41>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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