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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:09:28 -0600 (CST)
From: Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>
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To: Michael Robbert <mrobbert AT Mines DOT EDU>
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Subject: Re: Setup hangs in postinstall
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On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Michael Robbert wrote:
> 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.
> >
> 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?
>
Why not try to debug it your self?

Have you tried to strace it?

Can you get a stack trace of the hang in gdb?  Note: You may need a debug
version of the cygwin1.dll or shell for this to be valid.  I will provide
the former if you are willing to test it.

> 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.
>
Yes.  A bugzilla style database has been proposed, but we have not found
anyone willing to maintain it yet.  Want to volunteer?

-- 
Brian Ford
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FlightSafety International
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