X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: How to debug mintty or screen freeze References: From: ht AT inf DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk (Henry S. Thompson) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 10:55:33 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Henry S. Thompson's message of "Sat, 27 Nov 2010 10:49:15 +0000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.4.21 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Edinburgh-Scanned: at treacle.ucs.ed.ac.uk with MIMEDefang 2.60, Sophie, Sophos Anti-Virus, Clam AntiVirus X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 [I don't understand why my previous message lost its substance, and consistend only of the attachment -- in any case, here is the text that I thought I included in it???] Andy Koppe writes: > On 15 November 2010 10:25, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >> [screen + mintty freezing] > . . . > Another thing you could try is to enable logging to a file using the > --log command option. Perhaps that will show what control sequence > triggers the problem. Obviously you'll want to remove any private > details before sending the log. Attached please find the last 50 lines of three occasions of freezing. Nothing private therein, so these are complete. The problem must be timing related and/or some kind of race, as you previously suggested, because after the freeze, when I reconnect to the remote xemacs, the page that froze half-way through paints just fine. . . ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 651-1426, e-mail: ht AT inf DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam] -- 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