Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3FD77B62.90909@mines.edu> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:00:34 -0700 From: Michael Robbert User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Antoine Labour CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup hangs in postinstall References: <3FD617A6.8050806@mines.edu> <3FD6222D.6040702@m4x.org> In-Reply-To: <3FD6222D.6040702@m4x.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner: Found to be clean 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/