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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:09:18 -0400
From: Volker Quetschke <quetschke AT scytek DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Funny hang with snapshop 20050920
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 10:18:51PM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote:
>
>>My favorite testcase (building OOo) started hanging again.
>>
>> ...
>>But now the *really* strange part begins: You can break the hang by doing
>> "ls /proc/3176/fd" !?
>>and the build continues (until the next hang).
>>
>>Sorry, we're unable to create a reduced testcase but we thought the
>>strange symptoms might help pinpoint the problem.
>>
>>Attached you also find the cygcheck output of that system.
>>
>>I hope this helps a little bit,
>
> Does sending a 'kill -CONT 3176' also unstick things?  Both situations send a
> signal to the process.
>
> How about attaching to the hung process with strace?  You didn't mention
> that.

I don't have direct access to that system, but I will relay the question.

We'll also try to attach to the process.

> (who deeply regrets ever trying to fix the windows 98 crash problem)
:)

Volker

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