cygrunsrv will not start services most of the time

[Dave Korn]

Robert Jacobson wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>>   Argh, sorry about that.  I just updated the BLODA sources in CVS to mention
>> Google Desktop the other day, but we haven't refreshed the website yet,
> 
> :-P  That would have saved me some troubleshooting time!
> 
> I swear I searched Google for "Google desktop cygrunsrv" and I didn't
> find any mention of the issue -- but I guess I searched for something
> else.  Maybe it was Google Desktop and "fork resource unavailable"
> (which doesn't show anything useful).  Ah, Google is great when you
> search for the "right" thing.

  Yeah, that's always the tricky bit.  I googled for
        +cygwin error +"google desktop"
and found a couple of pointers to google groups as results #3 and #4 that led
me to this report from last October:

http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Desktop_Something-Broken/tree/browse_frm/month/2008-10/1f3f00524b27fbf4?rnum=121&_done=%2Fgroup%2FGoogle-Desktop_Something-Broken%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fmonth%2F2008-10%3F#doc_c5426b3f349577a3

(http://tinyurl.com/d9jtcv to avoid wrapping).

> In any case, I wanted to add that if you use regedit to rename/delete
> "AppInit_DLLs", cygrunsrv will work until you reboot -- at that point
> Google Desktop seems to "fix" itself by creating "AppInit_DLLs" again.
> That will of course break cygrunsrv again.

  Argh.  Still, that key belongs to windows, there are lots of other things
that might end up there or cause it to be recreated, so editing it is an
unreliable technique at the best of times.  I see (OldNewThing 20071213) that
it's deprecated and disabled by default in vista (and presumably above).

  It occurs to me that we should dump it out in the cygcheck output, thanks
for the idea!

    cheers,
      DaveK


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