On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 06:30:14PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: >I moved my C:\cygwin directory aside today and did a fresh install of >Cygwin on Windows XP Professional SP2. I also found that sshd would not >start. There was a clue regarding ownership of the above directory in >/var/log/sshd.log. After RTFM, STFW, and beating my head against the >monitor to no avail, my work-around was to go back to a working Cygwin >image from November 2006. As an aside, it seems that Cygwin has become >less stable since support for Vista was attempted. > >Once again, I can only conclude that the underlying problem is >insufficient testing of Cygwin and its components. I understand that >this is a monumental, tedious, and largely thankless task. I >volunteered to help with such a few years ago, and the silence was >deafening. When I spoke up about that, I was flamed by key Cygwin >maintainers. We'll see what kind of responses this paragraph generates.
I assume you are referring to this: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-10/threads.html#00007 although you are clearly misremembering since the silence was not deafening and you were not, as far as I can tell, flamed by key Cygwin maintainers. >Given the lack of a significant revenue stream for Cygwin and for >GNU/OSS tools, I don't see the stability situation improving. My >strategy remains to take a copy of the C:\cygwin\setup tree every now >and then, and keep the images for a long time. If this is important to you, then why don't you contact Red Hat and purchase a support license? They release stable versions of Cygwin on a regular basis. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/