[EXTERNAL] Updated cygwin this morning, mintty window flashes briefly and quits

[Brian Inglis]

On 2022-01-20 13:24, Lavrentiev, Anton wrote:
> There should be only one of them running, unless you have multiple Cygwin installations,
> then there can be per-installation instances.  Restart of all Cygwin processes was always
> required (because the main DLL may not be properly replaced while it's in use by
> any process) -- but a reboot usually took care of that quite well...
> 
> Honestly, this was new for me, too.  Formerly, install with a following reboot was all I needed
> to do (since I'm not a power user on my work PC, that was the only way for me to "restart"
> the service, anyways).  But now the reboot alone does not seem to help anymore: looks like
> Win10 loads up services in a different (fast) fashion, like a wake-up from hibernate.
> So an explicit restart of cygserver is now required (and now I have to ask sysadmin
> to do that for me at work -- sigh).

I have modified my Cygwin services definitions to do Delayed Autostart 
and Preshutdown, with appropriate Windows service and 
inter-dependencies, shut them down and restart them in local scheduled 
tasks run under SYSTEM account on appropriate events and on demand, and 
restart them in a late local permanent postinstall script 
/etc/postinstall/zp_z0_l_start_services.dash after setup.

Some combination of these techniques may allow your sysadmin to set 
things up for you to control these services without their intervention.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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