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Re: SSH - Can't Login


On 31 October 2010 17:39, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 31 October 2010 17:12, Brian Wilson wrote:
>> In my case the context was that suddenly ssh stopped working and would only
>> give the usage message no matter what I tried. ÂI ran the "cygcheck -svr" and
>> noted that I did not have the latest Cygwin (1.7.7) installed even though
>> running setup said there was nothing needed.
>
> Which probably means that you'd tried to update the cygwin package
> while a Cygwin process was running, told it to skip it when setup.exe
> complained about it, and forgot to reboot to trigger the delayed
> update. There have been reports of the delayed update not working
> under some circumstances, but nothing definitive.

Also, make sure you're using the latest setup.exe. A problem with the
handling of in-use packages was fixed earlier this year.

Andy

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