Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2001/03/12/07:19:26
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 02:41:14PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 01:17:30PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >> >Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> >>I could use a little more detail, however, like when this started
> >> >>failing. It sounds like this could be related to Egor's changes to pty
> >> >>handling or, if this is very recent, to my signal handling changes.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >Sometime between 2/28 and 3/06, IIRC. I could have been using a 2/23
> >> >prior to the 3/06 update though. I really haven't had spare cycles for
> >> >tracking down problems recently. Wish I could help find this problem.
> >> >It is definitely a race condition. I just had one happen and started
> >> >another process while the other was hung just fine.
> >>
> >> Can you detail the series of events that led to the hang? Were you typing
> >> anything? Or did it just hang immediately on starting bash via rxvt?
> >>
> >> I don't use rxvt routinely but it sounds like I should be able to duplicate
> >> this.
> >>
> >
> >The hang happens after clicking on the icon on the desktop. I've always
> >awaited for a bash prompt that never returns. The first time it
> >happened was right after I installed after building on 3/06. It
> >mysteriously went away and I've had it happen occasionally ever since.
>
> Ok. I just tried about 40 times to duplicate this and was unable to do
> so. Could you send a cygcheck -r -s -v?
>
40 should have been ample as my ratio is 1 in 10. The cygcheck output
is attached.
> Also, just on a hunch, could you try typing commands in the rxvt window
> and see if anything displays? I've just had something similar to this
> happen to me. bash appeared to be hung but it was actually not recognizing
> that it was running in a cygwin tty so it didn't display any prompt.
>
It's rxvt that is getting hung not bash. When moving the mouse cursor
over the rxvt window the mouse cursor moves to the busy/wait pointer.
Nothing can be processed in that window. I know bash isn't hung because
I've attached to it. I'll CVS update soon and do another build to see
what happens. I'll include the debugging symbols this time.
Earnie.
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