Re: crash on latest cygwin snapshot

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 04:02:28PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
>On 8/3/2012 12:21 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 11:41:19PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 11:05:10PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>> On 8/2/2012 3:34 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 09:14:50PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote:
>>>>>> Christopher Faylor writes:
>>>>>>> Just to be clear: Is this with the recent snapshot?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, this is with the 2012-08-01 snapshot.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I ask because one other "I see something similar" seemed to come from
>>>>>>> 1.7.16.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm almost always running a snapshot, but I can back it out to vanilla
>>>>>> Cygwin or any other snapshot if it helps finding the error.  I don't
>>>>>> think I've had any other updates except mesa inbetween switching from
>>>>>> the snapshot I used before and the current one ???  but that is
>>>>>> circumstancial evidence only.
>>>>>
>>>>> It would be interesting to see if you or Ken have a problem with the
>>>>> 20120730 snapshot.
>>>>>
>>>>> And, if so, then an strace would probably be useful, although it would
>>>>> be huge.  If you do get one, let me know how to download it or I can
>>>>> provide temporary storage somewhere.
>>>>
>>>> I do have the same problem with the 20120730 snapshot.  I started emacs
>>>> in an xterm window, attached strace, and walked away.  This time it
>>>> didn't take long for emacs to crash, so the strace output isn't huge:
>>>>
>>>> wget http://sanibeltranquility.com/cygwin/strace.out
>>>
>>> Thanks.  I think I see the problem but I won't be able to get to it
>>> tonight.
>>>
>>> It's in the new signal handling code.
>>
>> I was actually able to duplicate this fairly easy.  It took me too long
>> to realize that I had to run the X version of emacs, when that should
>> have been obvious from the strace.
>>
>> I have uploaded a new snapshot which should fix the problem.
>>
>> Can you confirm Ken?
>
>I'm testing.  It looks good so far, but I'd like to get emacs running 
>without a crash for 24 hours before I'm confident.  I'll report back 
>tomorrow.
>
>I'm also testing to see if the recent changes have fixed the problem 
>that I was struggling with in 
>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2012-04/msg00048.html .  That also 
>looks good so far.

Well, fingers crossed, but I'm not aware of anything which would fix what
you describe there.

cgf

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