> How do you install and upgrade Cygwin and Packages? Why? I wasn't upgrading anything this time. But when I need to upgrade, I create a ticket for admins to stop cygserver, then I update all the files, and then I create a ticket to restart the service. (BTW, Setup won't be able to complete and update cygwin1.dll if anything of Cygwin is still running -- so it's hard to miss.)
Everything worked prior to my password change (and that was the _only_ thing that I was changing, not packages). After that I was unable to start Cygwin Terminal (it blinked "This account is currently not available" at me, and closed immediately). I rebooted the machine, to no avail. "cygcheck" was showing broken output for one of my secondary group name. "id" was showing numeric user / group (nothing broken, though). "strace" for "id" showed it consulted cygserver. When admin stopped cygserver, right away I was able to start the terminal again (without even any need to re-login, let alone to reboot). It was all described previously in my emails to this list. The thing is that I _need_ cygserver because I use shared memory. So I will have to ask admin to restart, eventually. Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
