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Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 13:29:11 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Hang with 20051018 (3rd version) snapshot while building OOo
Message-ID: <20051102182911.GA9563@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
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References: <43579205.1090801@scytek.de> <20051023205044.GA3648@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <435E5839.4070902@scytek.de> <20051025184057.GB19220@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <43610899.8010102@scytek.de> <20051027171835.GA24332@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <4362FB42.2020804@scytek.de> <4367A1EC.9050806@scytek.de> <4367E903.7080203@scytek.de> <20051101224030.GA30658@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
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On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 05:40:30PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 05:15:31PM -0500, Volker Quetschke wrote:
>>Volker Quetschke wrote:
>>> OK, here is the full version:
>>>  <http://www.scytek.de/strace_with_hang_snap20051024.tar.bz2>
>>> 
>>> It contains the usual cygcheck and ps output plus:
>>> 
>>>   strace.log_while  - the strace file until it hangs
>>>   strace.log        - the complete strace including the previous part.
>>> 
>>> It hangs/waits in "dmake 2436 talktome: pid 632 wants some information"
>>
>>I found something funny in the strace. dmake *and* tcsh are waiting
>>on something:
>>
>>186919618 187255700 [sig] dmake 2436 talktome: pid 632 wants some information
>>
>>and later in the file:
>>
>>186869833 187019671 [sig] tcsh 2724 talktome: pid 632 wants some information
>>
>>Plus some more "talktome: pid 632 wants some information" lines later. Not really
>>knowing what's going on here I would speculate that they are coming from some
>>  wait(&status);
>>command. (At least that's most propably the place where it's "hanging" in
>>dmake).
>
>No, talktome has nothing to do with wait.  That's the interface which is
>called when (among other things) you look at things in /proc.

Could you try today's snapshot (when it shows up)?  It has more debugging
which might help show where the hang is occurring.

cgf

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