Roughly 1 out of 3 times that I try to use hexchat, I get a fork failure:
31143510 [main] hexchat 12392 dofork: child 12399 - died waiting for dll
loading, errno 11
It only happens if cygserver is running. I caught it under strace and saw the
following:
29 25558 [main] hexchat 12399 frok::child: hParent 0xAF0, load_dlls 1
43 25601 [main] hexchat 12399 open_shared: name cygpid.12392, n 12392,
shared 0x1100000 (wanted 0x0), h 0x10C, *m 6
35 25636 [main] hexchat 12399 getpid: 12399 = getpid()
65 25701 [main] hexchat 12399 transport_layer_pipes::connect: Try to
connect to named pipe: \\.\pipe\cygwin-e022582115c10879-lpc
363 26064 [main] hexchat 12399 C:\cygwin64\bin\hexchat.exe: *** fatal
error
in forked process - fixup_shms_after_fork: NtMapViewOfSection (0x7FF4EE130000),
status 0xC0000018. Terminating.
[status 0xC0000018 is STATUS_CONFLICTING_ADDRESSES.]
This was under cygwin-3.0.7-1. It also happens with cygwin1.dll built from the
current master branch, and it also happens with cygwin-3.0.6-1. Not being
familiar with this part of the Cygwin code, my first thought was to do a
bisection. But I haven't yet found a good revision to start with. I will
still
try to do that, but in the meantime I thought I should report it.
Here are the reproduction instructions:
1. Start the cygserver service.
2. Start the X server. (I do this by using the XWin Server shortcut, which
basically just calls startxwin.)
3. Start xterm, and run 'hexchat &'.
4. Select the freenode network and click Connect.
Roughly 1 out of 3 times, the dofork error will print in the xterm window, and
hexchat will hang at "Looking up chat.freenode.net".
Ken
P.S. File this under "No good deed goes unpunished." I was trying to use
hexchat to join #cygwin-developers. I can still do that on 2 out of 3
attempts,
but now I'm sidetracked trying to do a bisection.
