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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Cary Jamison" Subject: Re: bash is crashing Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 10:40:09 -0600 Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <080420051614.24258.42F23EF20001988C00005EC222007507440A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> <42F4B48E.5010303@byu.net> X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-IsSubscribed: yes Eric Blake wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Cary Jamison on 8/5/2005 6:40 PM: >>>> cd $LDIR >>>> while true >>>> do >>>> sleep 10 >> >> >> It appears to be crashing here in the sleep. It will go for just a >> few loops around to several minutes before crashing. >> What should I try next. Maybe a strace? > > The collected strace would be huge, but may be the next step. Try and > pick out the tail end of the trace where the crash actually happens, > rather than the entire trace. But that will only point out what > syscalls were being made prior to the crash. > > Actually, a better next step might be to build your own debugging > version of bash, with symbols still compiled in, so that you can get > a backtrace of the crash. I'm still trying to reproduce your > failure, with no success yet. Ok, I may give that a try. But, I'll be away from my office for the next couple days, so it will be a while before I can report back. Before I left on Friday I stripped out everything within the loop except for the sleep, just to make sure there weren't any side affects of something within the loop causing problems. I forgot to do anything to see how long it would run, but when I came it this morning it had also crashed. If you can't reproduce this with such a simple test case I have to think there is something else in my setup. Cary -- 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/