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Re: crash on latest cygwin snapshot
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:10:28 -0400
- Subject: Re: crash on latest cygwin snapshot
- References: <4FE786DA.2050208@gmail.com> <4FE9A2A1.3040802@cornell.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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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