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| author | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2009-06-23 19:52:20 +0400 |
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| committer | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2009-06-23 19:52:20 +0400 |
| commit | fe0dbf69f996cf3d25934f7881828f63c5a590b8 (patch) | |
| tree | b281ec60ed21764a370c0a69e1f2281cd9f90dfd | |
| parent | bc4020d725dcb98c4245aedf09c3596f37017e49 (diff) | |
* faq-setup.xml (faq.setup.setup-failes-on-ts): New FAQ entry.
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/faq-setup.xml | 29 |
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diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index 32039c9c5..5fbe0ab6d 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2009-06-23 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> + + * faq-setup.xml (faq.setup.setup-failes-on-ts): New FAQ entry. + 2009-06-19 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> * new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7-misc): Add new link libs. diff --git a/winsup/doc/faq-setup.xml b/winsup/doc/faq-setup.xml index 9cf55cc1b..e2c2759d2 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/faq-setup.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/faq-setup.xml @@ -318,6 +318,35 @@ what happened that wasn't supposed to happen, etc. </para> </answer></qandaentry> +<qandaentry id="faq.setup.setup-failes-on-ts"> +<question><para>My installation on a Terminal Server machine goes wrong. What can I do?</para></question> +<answer> + +<para>The problem is that Terminal Server machines do some compatibility +checks when running applications which are not marked as +"Terminal Server-aware", and this compatibility check seems to be buggy, +leaving parts of the application in a non-executable state. Curious enough, +this only happens if DEP (Data Execution Prevention) is turned on for +all applications.</para> + +<para>So far, only few Cygwin packages have their binaries marked as +TS-aware, which means there's a good chance that the postinstall scripts +during the installation will break, and that after installation you +can't start a shell, etc.</para> + +<para>So, for the time being, here's how you install Cygwin on a Terminal +Server. First, switch DEP to "Turn on DEP for essential Windows programs +and services only" and reboot the machine. Then install via setup.exe. +You can leave it at that and run the Termin Server in the aforementioned +DEP setting. Or use the peflags tool from the rebaseall package to set +the TS-aware flag in all executables, switch DEP back to "Turn on DEP for +all programs and services except [...]" and reboot again. However, +please keep in mind that a package update might re-install a binary +with the TS-aware flag switched off again. So you will have to re-use +the peflags utility once in a while. +</para> +</answer></qandaentry> + <qandaentry id="faq.setup.name-with-space"> <question><para>My Windows logon name has a space in it, will this cause problems?</para></question> <answer> |