1.5.7s: gdb crash on exit

Rolf Campbell Endlisnis@mailc.net
Tue Jan 20 20:04:00 GMT 2004


I just realized that gdb (at least on my machine) always crashes if you 
attach to any process, then try to quit.

Rolf Campbell wrote:

> I've noticed a problem with the snapshot (it's not limited to the 
> snapshot, it was there in 1.5.6 as well).  The problem may have been in 
> 1.5.5 as well, but it was definitely less pronounced there.
> 
> If I run "make -j6" or something, on our large corporate build 
> environment, then sometimes, one or more make instances will end up 
> freezing.  (They spin in place, using up as much cpu as they can, 
> forever).  ^C stops them.  I can't find any easy way to produce this 
> with smaller examples (and it doesn't even always happen on my big 
> builds).  It seems to happen about 75% of the time with my builds, so I 
> don't have any real problem reproducing it.
> 
> I tried attaching to the process with gdb, but I didn't really know what 
> to do after I was attached:
> -------------------------------------
> (gdb) attach 524
> Attaching to process 524
> [Switching to thread 524.0x38c]
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x77f75a59 in ntdll!DbgUiConnectToDbg () from 
> /c/WINDOWS/System32/ntdll.dll
> #1  0x77f5f31f in ntdll!KiUserCallbackDispatcher ()
>    from /c/WINDOWS/System32/ntdll.dll
> #2  0x00000005 in ?? ()
> #3  0x00000004 in ?? ()
> #4  0x00000001 in ?? ()
> #5  0x003fffd0 in ?? ()
> #6  0x85005480 in ?? ()
> #7  0xffffffff in ?? ()
> #8  0x77fa88f0 in wcstombs () from /c/WINDOWS/System32/ntdll.dll
> (gdb) p/x *(int *)$ebp
> $1 = 0x0
> (gdb) info thread
> * 4 thread 524.0x38c  0x77f75a59 in ntdll!DbgUiConnectToDbg ()
>    from /c/WINDOWS/System32/ntdll.dll
>   3 thread 524.0x270  0x7ffe0304 in ?? ()
>   2 thread 524.0xc14  0x7ffe0304 in ?? ()
>   1 thread 524.0xff0  0x00419015 in ?? ()
> (gdb) quit
> The program is running.  Quit anyway (and detach it)? (y or n) ye
> 
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> rcampbell@desk-rcampbell ~
> $
> ------------------------
> 
> Also, gdb crashed as you can see.  Gdb seems to crash if i attach to a 
> process, then try to quit.  I ran gdb under gdb, but it didn't produce a 
> usefull traceback:
> (gdb) q
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x0042454c in ?? ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x0042454c in ?? ()
> #1  0x00000ec0 in ?? ()
> 
> 
> I understand that I haven't provided much usefull info, I am willing to 
> try other things apon suggestion.
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
> Current System Time: Tue Jan 20 12:04:02 2004
> 
> Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1
> 
> Path:	C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin
> 	C:\cygwin\bin
> 	C:\cygwin\bin
> 	C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin
> 	C:\WINDOWS\system32
> 	C:\WINDOWS
> 	C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
> 	C:\Program
> 
> Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (nontsec)
> UID: 11643(rcampbell) GID: 10513(Domain Users)
> 10513(Domain Users)
> 
> Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (ntsec)
> UID: 11643(rcampbell) GID: 10513(Domain Users)
> 544(Administrators)   545(Users)
> 10513(Domain Users)
> 
> SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\System32
> WinDir: C:\WINDOWS
> 
> HOME = `C:\cygwin\home\rcampbell'
> MAKE_MODE = `unix'
> PWD = `/tmp'
> USER = `rcampbell'
> 
> ALLUSERSPROFILE = `C:\Documents and Settings\All Users'
> APPDATA = `C:\Documents and Settings\rcampbell\Application Data'
> CLIENTNAME = `Console'
> COLORFGBG = `0;default;15'
> COLORTERM = `rxvt-xpm'
> COMMONPROGRAMFILES = `C:\Program Files\Common Files'
> COMPUTERNAME = `DESK-RCAMPBELL'
> COMSPEC = `C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe'
> COSMIC = `t'
> CVS_RSH = `/bin/ssh'
> DISPLAY = `:0'
> HOMEDRIVE = `C:'
> HOMEPATH = `\Documents and Settings\rcampbell'
> HOSTNAME = `desk-rcampbell'
> INFOPATH = `/usr/local/info:/usr/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/autotool/devel/info:/usr/autotool/stable/info:'
> LOGONSERVER = `\\EXCHANGE'
> MANPATH = `/usr/local/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/autotool/devel/man::/usr/ssl/man'
> NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS = `2'
> OLDPWD = `/c/base2/node'
> OS = `Windows_NT'
> P4CONFIG = `.p4config'
> PATHEXT = `.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH'
> PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE = `x86'
> PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER = `x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9, GenuineIntel'
> PROCESSOR_LEVEL = `15'
> PROCESSOR_REVISION = `0209'
> PROGRAMFILES = `C:\Program Files'
> PS1 = `\[\033]0;\w\007
> \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
> $ '
> SESSIONNAME = `Console'
> SHLVL = `1'
> SYSTEMDRIVE = `C:'
> SYSTEMROOT = `C:\WINDOWS'
> TEMP = `C:\DOCUME~1\RCAMPB~1\LOCALS~1\Temp'
> TERM = `xterm'
> TMP = `C:\DOCUME~1\RCAMPB~1\LOCALS~1\Temp'
> TROPIC_UNIQUE_ID = `150'
> USERDNSDOMAIN = `TROPICNETWORKS.COM'
> USERDOMAIN = `TROPICNETWORKS'
> USERNAME = `rcampbell'
> USERPROFILE = `C:\Documents and Settings\rcampbell'
> WINDIR = `C:\WINDOWS'
> WINDOWID = `168127776'
> _ = `/usr/bin/cygcheck'
> 
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2
>   (default) = `/cygdrive'
>   cygdrive flags = 0x00000022
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/
>   (default) = `C:\cygwin'
>   flags = 0x0000000a
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/c
>   (default) = `C:'
>   flags = 0x0000000a
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/bin
>   (default) = `C:\cygwin/bin'
>   flags = 0x0000000a
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/lib
>   (default) = `C:\cygwin/lib'
>   flags = 0x0000000a
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options
> 
> a:  fd           N/A    N/A                    
> c:  hd  NTFS   39260Mb  45% CP CS UN PA FC     
> d:  cd           N/A    N/A                    
> 
> C:\cygwin      /          system  binmode
> C:             /c         system  binmode
> C:\cygwin/bin  /usr/bin   system  binmode
> C:\cygwin/lib  /usr/lib   system  binmode
> .              /cygdrive  system  binmode,cygdrive
> 
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\awk.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cp.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\gdb.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ld.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\make.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\mv.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\rm.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sed.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\tar.exe
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>     Cygwin DLL version info:
>         DLL version: 1.5.7
>         DLL epoch: 19
>         DLL bad signal mask: 19005
>         DLL old termios: 5
>         DLL malloc env: 28
>         API major: 0
>         API minor: 109
>         Shared data: 3
>         DLL identifier: cygwin1
>         Mount registry: 2
>         Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
>         Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
>         Program options name: Program Options
>         Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
>         Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
>         Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
>         Cygdrive default prefix: 
>         Build date: Tue Jan 20 09:31:12 EST 2004
>         Snapshot date: 20040120-09:27:37
>         Shared id: cygwin1S3
> 
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