X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:14:12 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygwin crash: 'assertion "root_idx != -1" failed ...' reliably reproduced on my system Message-ID: <20100310151412.GD19509@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4B8AC6B5 DOT 5090809 AT newsguy DOT com> <20100228200054 DOT GC29104 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100228200054.GC29104@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 03:00:54PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 02:40:37PM -0500, Bill Meier wrote: >> From time to time I've been >>getting 'assertion "root_idx != -1" failed ...' cygwin crashes. > >I've found that this is usually a race that happens when you start two >Cygwin programs at the same time. It's fixable but it will require some >locking of Cygwin's shared memory. I believe that this should be fixed in the latest snapshot. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple