Re: ipc-daemon2 failure

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Tishler" <jason(at)tishler(dot)net>
To: "Roger Ackroyd" <postgresql(at)ackroyd(dot)freeserve(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: <pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] ipc-daemon2 failure

> Roger,
>
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:43:04AM +0100, Roger Ackroyd wrote:
> > (Jason: I thought I had posted my solution last week as you requested.
> > Probably never received due to my ineptitude at posting to lists.
>
> I did, but you sent it *only* to me which enabled me to procrastinate
> responding. Besides, I was tied up with the impending Python 2.3
> release.
>
I must remember to change the from and to address each time I reply using Outlook Express. If I forget it posts it direct to mail I am replying to. My apologies(again).
> > The above is essentially what I did in order to solve the issue on
> > this XP Home machine.
>
> IIRC, you had other problems besides the AF_UNIX socket problem. I was
> hoping that you could clearly articulate them so I can *easily* update
> the README as necessary. I will go with Seth changes unless I hear
> otherwise.
>
It was only when I upgraded cygwin1.dll that everything finally worked. I may have been dealing with more than one problem.
The difficulty with this platform is that each time it fails it leaves folders and files around with altered permissions/user rights, with all the user switching, logging in and out, altering permissions, deleting folders, re-installing services, one never can be sure that later attempts are not being screwed by stuff left from before. It does not allow switching accounts from the cywin command line. Wouldnt allow me anyway.
The problem is frankly a bloody nightmare to engineer on windows, really makes you want to download linux and chuck windows up the street.

> > On the readme, under requirements, it recommends cygwin 1.3.16-1. At
> > footnote [16] ref step 10, it states 'For cygwin 1.3.22-1 and below, a
> > bug prevents this from working...'. Is this problem something related
> > to this without perhaps being the direct cause?)
>
> Huh? The above is very hard to understand.
I was referring to Seths amendments to the original readme, that might have confued it. To try and clarify it states:-
In requirements
The following packages or later are required ...
...
cygwin 1.3.16-1
...

Then at footnote [16] with reference to Connect to PostgreSQL (psql) step 10

"[16] For cygwin 1.3.22-1 and below a bug prevents this from working ... ... "

Which of these is correct? If the second is correct, then surely end to end readme procedure cannot work.
I know it seems like a minor point but,

Did upgrading to cygwin1.dll 1.5.1 possibly cure [16] and one or more other problems with cygwin on this machine? That is what I cannot be sure of.
Is there a version later than 1.3.22-1 and equal to or earlier than 1.5.1, that is known to cure all or any of the observed similar problems?
In which case does cygwin version 1.3.16-1 in requirements need to be changed? Does footnote [16] then become redundant?
Also, I could have been doing something else wrong (and in parallel) all along before I (obviously) did it right!

Do'nt think I really dare say anything more concrete.
Roger
>
> Jason
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