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Re: 1.7.29-2: Exception from cygwin_gethostname


David Rothenberger wrote:
> David Rothenberger wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> Hi David, Hi Ken [in CC],
>>>
>>> On Apr  7 13:50, David Rothenberger wrote:
>>>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>>>> On 4/7/2014 3:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>>> On Apr  7 11:49, David Rothenberger wrote:
>>>>>>> I'm having a problem doing hostname resolution on one of my
>>>>>>> Windows 7 64 machines after updating cygwin to 1.7.29-2. I
>>>>>>> first noticed it with ssh. I get an error whenever I try to
>>>>>>> ssh to any machine using a hostname; it complains the
>>>>>>> hostname cannot be resolved.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> An strace of ssh shows an exception occuring right after
>>>>>>> the call to cygwin_gethostname is logged.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 96   58624 [main] ssh 3536 cygwin_gethostname: name
>>>>>>> daver-pc --- Process 3536, exception 000006ba at
>>>>>>> 000007FEFDD4940D 860   59484 [main] ssh 3536 __set_errno:
>>>>>>> void san::leave():315 setting errno 14
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Exception 0x6ba is "The RPC server is unavailable".  I have
>>>>>> no idea why this exception is generated at all on your
>>>>>> machine.  Usually this is a first-chance exception only,
>>>>>> which can be ignored, but this is the first time I ever saw
>>>>>> this and in the above scenario there's no such exception 
>>>>>> expected, so it doesn't get ignored.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oh well, it would have been helpful if this had been
>>>>>> encountered last week :(
>>>
>>> I have uploaded a new snapshot to http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots/
>>> which is supposed to workaround this problem by only handling the
>>> very exceptions the exception handler was designed to handle at
>>> this point. Can you please check if this works for you?
>>
>> Thanks, Corinna. That solves my problem.
>>
>> A co-worker had a slightly different problem with 1.7.29-2. I'll test
>> the snapshot on his machine as soon as he's available today and report
>> back.
> 
> The snapshot fixes the problem on my co-worker's machine as well. Thanks
> again!

Looks like I spoke too soon. It fixed my simple test case of running
ssh, but I still get the exception when I try to run "git push", where
git spawns ssh. The exception is exactly the same as before (same
address too).

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