Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:10:28 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: crash on latest cygwin snapshot
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 07:53:05AM -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
>On 6/24/2012 5:30 PM, marco atzeri wrote:
>> while building latest atlas I hit a bug that is crashing all the running
>> cygwin process.
>> It crashes on 20120619 snapshot and also latest cvs source.
>> No issue on 20120611 snapshot.
>
>I'm also seeing this crash, but it does not kill all running cygwin 
>processes.  The only processes that die are the mintty processes and the 
>associated bash processes.  For example, it just happened a few minutes 
>ago, and XWin survived, along with emacs and xterm.
>
>It happens intermittently, maybe once every 3 days, and I haven't found 
>a simple sequence of steps for reproducing it.  All I can say for sure 
>is that I always have more than one mintty running, and they all die.
>
>Marco, are you sure all cygwin processes die when you experience this 
>problem?  Also, since you can reliably reproduce the crash, have you 
>tried reverting to the previous version of mintty?  Note that mintty was 
>updated just a few days before the 20120619 snapshot was released.

He indicated that some processes kept running.

But, hmm.  I haven't updated mintty lately.  I will try that.

cgf

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