Setup hangs in postinstall

[Michael Robbert]

Antoine Labour wrote:

> 
> Actually, I still do believe it's the same problem. In some other mails 
> I specified it happens also on single CPU machines. I think other people 
> have been able to reproduce it as well. The fact I expose it in a loop 
> is because the hang is random. It also sometimes happen in a non-loop 
> environment. I suspect a nasty race condition which depends heavily on 
> the system scheduling, so in your case the same problem might happen 
> every time.
> In any case, I tried my small test case with zsh too, same result : hang 
> after a few iterations.
> 
> Cheers,
> Antoine

Antoine,
I'm sorry, you're probably correct.

Everybody,
Some new information I got today. I found another user on our campus 
that is having the problem on two different machines, but not a third. 
All of them running Windows XP. So far every machine I have seen it on 
is running XP and is a recent new install of Cygwin. Does anybody think 
that they could get closer to a solution if I were to provide you with a 
machine to play with remotely where the problem happens every time?

Also, Is this the only place for bug reporting for Cygwin? I can't find 
any actual bug database like bugzilla to get this officially reported.

-- 
Michael "Murph" Robbert
System Administrator for Math/CS
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO  80401-1887
Office: GC249
Office phone: 303-273-3786



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