Re: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced

[ericblake at comcast dot net (Eric Blake)]

> Every time I update the cygwin package, I get a warning that in-use
> files have been replaced and that I should reboot. I assume this is
> caused by a Cygwin service, although at one point somebody on this
> list (I think it was Corinna) said that SETUP stops these services
> automatically. So I'm assuming my situation isn't normal.

Your situation isn't normal because you didn't stop all cygwin
services.  While the idea has been tossed around on this list
that it would be nice if setup.exe could stop services for you,
to date, it does not.  Therefore, IT IS UP TO YOU to stop services
beforehand.  Or provide a patch so that setup.exe can do
it for you (and for the rest of us).

I use this handy little script on my machine to help me stop
(and restart) all services:

$ cat serv
#!/bin/bash
usage='serv: manage cygwin services during cygwin upgrades
usage: serv {--help|--stop|--start}'

case $# in
1) case $1 in
  --help|-h) echo "$usage"; exit 0 ;;
  --stop) for service in `cygrunsrv --list` inetd ; do
      echo "stopping $service"
      cygrunsrv --stop $service || echo "problems with $service" ;;
    done ;;
  --start) for service in `cygrunsrv --list` inetd ; do
      echo "starting $service"
      cygrunsrv --start $service || echo "problems with $service"
    done ;;
  esac ;;
*) echo "$usage"; exit 1 ;;
esac

> I've been working around this by carefully updating only the base
> cygwin package and rebooting before updating the rest. Whenever I
> forget to do this, post-install scripts generally fail and I have
> to clean up by running them manually, etc.

That is a reasonable solution (in that you at least guarantee that
you have the latest cygwin before any other new package
postinstall tries to run), but who likes rebooting?

> 
> My cygcheck.out is attached.

It would be nice if you could fix your mailer to send attachments
as plain text, and not application/octet-stream.

--
Eric Blake



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