Re: Windows update vs. cygrunsrv

[ericblake at comcast dot net (Eric Blake)]

> > I don't know it this was unique to my machine, but am
> > reporting it in case anyone else runs into the same
> > issue.  When running Microsoft update today, on Win2k,
> > the patch for Security Update for DirectX 9 for Windows
> > 2000 (KB904706) hung during installation, with an
> > instance of cygrunsrv hogging 100% CPU, until I had
> > stopped every last one of my cygrunsrv processes.  I
> > don't know what the Microsoft update was trying to do
> > to running services during the update, but it obviously
> > didn't interact very well with cygrunsrv.
> 
> I have the converse experience.  I'm usually running three services
> under cygrunsrv (syslogd, sshd, esd) and today I used Windows Update,
> too, to get the latest security bugfixes.  I had (and never had)
> problems to do this while my services were still running.

I usually leave my services up, as well; this was the first time
I had a hang.  Today's Win2k patch list contained 10 patches,
and it was only the 1 patch for KB904706 that hung.  So it's not
the update process in general, but that particular patch, that I
was complaining about.

--
Eric Blake



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