cygserver service won't start

[Alder]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Sep  8 22:37, Alder wrote:
> 
>>as a service.  This step seemed successful as the Windows Event Viewer 
>>lists it as 'CYGWIN cygserver' and describes it as 'Cygwin shared memory 
>>manager'.  This description, however, is suspiciously like the one I 
> 
> 
> The cygserver-config script does not add this description.  So it's from
> an old service entry.

That's what I suspected, but I wonder where the string was pulled from? 
  Like I said, I cleared the Cygnus Solutions keys from LOCAL_MACHINE 
and CURRENT_USER areas in the registry and deleted the temp folders 
created by the previous Setup.exe.  Could it be the Service Control 
Manager itself?

> 
> 
>>The Windows Event Viewer console Application Log reports that cygserver 
>>starts and is awaiting requests, but a split second later the Service 
>>Control Manager reports in the System Log that cygserver terminates 
>>unexpectedly.  The /var/log/cygserver.log file is empty, so I'm clueless 
>>as to what might have caused this problem.  I can only guess that file 
>>permissions are not what they should be.
> 
> 
> What does `ls -l /usr/sbin/cygserver.exe' look like?

$ ls -l /usr/sbin/cygserver.exe
-rwxrwxrwx    1 Manager  Users      103424 Sep  4 20:18 
/usr/sbin/cygserver.exe*

..or..

Manager@kiraly ~
$ ls -ln /usr/sbin/cygserver.exe
-rwxrwxrwx    1 500      545        103424 Sep  4 20:18 
/usr/sbin/cygserver.exe*



> 
> Did you try to run cygserver from the command line?
> 

I tried just now and it seems to run fine:

$ /usr/sbin/cygserver &
[2] 688
[1]   Done                    /usr/sbin/cygserver

Manager@kiraly ~
$ cygserver: Initialization complete.  Waiting for requests.
<---- bash hangs here; have to use Enter key to get prompt back

Manager@kiraly ~
$

> Corinna
> 

Alder


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