bash longjmp issue

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

K Kafka wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have been looking around for a possible cause for my problem with
> bash. I left a "tail -f" running for a few days. When I came back,
> none of the service would run anymore (cygsrv, exim, sshd). After a
> bit of researching I've come accross quite a few posts but nothing
> concrete.
> 
> It seems that bash.exe is crashing with a WFSO longjmp error after the
> 5min timeout. Preventing everything else. From some posts, it seems it
> could be coming from a device (webcam) or a software such as the
> anti-virus. I have almost nothing installed on this machine aside from
> MySQL and Tomcat5. Its a Xeon server running Windows 2003 server.
> 
> Here is the actual error for bash.
> C:\cygwin\bin>      4 [main] bash 3376 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: ***
> fatal error -  WFSO timed out after longjmp
> 
> Some people have been suggesting to try a rebaseall. Same thing
> happens, I get two errors, a fhandler_base::fork_fixup immediately and
> an WFSO longjmp error after 5 min.
> 
> Here are the errors:
> C:\cygwin\bin>      4 [main] ash 1328 fhandler_base::fork_fixup:
> /bin/rebaseall - Win32 error 5, handle io_handle<0x0>
> 
> C:\cygwin\bin>      4 [main] ash 1856 C:\cygwin\bin\ash.exe: *** fatal
> error - WFSO timed out after longjmp
> 
> I've also updated cygwin to the latest version and reinstalled bash
> and cygsrv. No changes, same errors.
> 
> If someone has an idea, please let me know. I'm at a loss and can't
> figure what to do next.


Let's start here:

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html


You've given us some information about what you see and when but we're
missing allot of specifics about your configuration and a possible test
case (or cases).  I'd recommend any follow-up posting to this list
contain the additional information outlined at the above web page.

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