On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 08:52:33AM -0500, Volker Quetschke wrote: >Hi! > >Peter Rehley wrote: >>I have a problem where a configure script is hanging. I first saw the >>behavior in 1.5.18, and it's still there in the latest snapshot. The >>only machines that we are seeing it hang on are windows 2000 machines, >>sp4, with duel pentinum 933 mhz processors, and using ssh to login to >>the machine. I haven't been able to reproduce the problem on single >>processor machines or when ssh is not used. >> >>Under 1.5.18, the hang occurred about 1 in ten times in the >>test_configure script (provided in the bash_test.tar.bz2 file. Under >>the latest snapshot it's about 1 in 900. >> >>When the hang happens it appears that a process is completed, but still >>can be found in the process directory. The cmdline file says >><defunct>, but the process still shows up in the process list (ps - >>ef). If I try to clean up by killing the process, the kill command >>says that the process doesn't exist. The only way that I can make the >>hung process go away is by using the task manager to kill the process. > >Your symptoms look familiar to our OOo build hang. I'm curious if in >your case a: > >$ ls /proc/<hangpid>/fd > >also cures the hang. (Sometimes this has to be issued several times.)
This would make it "not a regression", if so. In fact, I did see some reports that dmake hangs in 1.5.18 in the archives. I'm wondering if it is YA symptom of: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00923.html since, try as I might, I can't see any way that a process would hang and then become unstuck by performing a "ls /proc/<hangpid>/fd". cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/