once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I can release this thing

[Peter Rehley]

On Jan 10, 2006, at 6:23 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> I hope that I've nailed down the last of the problems due to trying to
> hide the console, aka ssh doesn't work, aka emacs doesn't work, aka
> rxvt doesn't work, aka setsid something doesn't work.
>
> <obligatory-often-ignored-request>
> So, please try a snapshot and report problems.  Please indicate  
> whether
> the problem is a regression from 1.5.18 or previous snapshots and  
> please
> respond to this message when reporting a problem.  Don't start a new
> thread.  Please always provide cygcheck output even if you think  
> you've
> already done it recently.  Please provide exact details to duplicate a
> problem - a simple program indicating the problem is ideal.
> </obligatory-often-ignored-request>

It's a rather difficult bug to reproduce, but I'm still seeing the  
hang up with the test_configure script.  I seem to be getting it  
about once every 2000 iterations of the program.  The thread where I  
mentioned this problem is http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-11/ 
msg00000.html

The script can be restarted by using the process.exe program (http:// 
www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/processutil/processutil.htm) using the  
restart option.

When I run the test_configure script, after about 2000 iterations it  
will hang.  If I do a ps -ef I can see several running sh commands  
from the script. I pick the one that doesn't have any children and  
cat /proc/<pid>/cmdline and it show <defunct>.  Then I cat the winpid  
and use the process program to restart.  This causes things to start  
running again.

Occasionally I will see that there is a child process (i.e. sort, not  
another sh)  If I try to cat the cmdline the cat process seems to  
hang;  I can only kill cat with the task manager.  However, I can  
still cat the winpid and when I do the process restart, things start  
running again.  This behavior is fairly new.  I have noted that it  
was the 12/22/2005 snapshot.  But I didn't try the 12/21, 12/20 or  
12/19 snapshots.

The machine is a windows 2000 with sp4.  Dual processor at 933Mhz.

cygcheck.out attached.

Peter

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