From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18166 invoked by alias); 4 Aug 2012 17:37:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 18156 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Aug 2012 17:37:26 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_NEUTRAL,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from soapstone1.mail.cornell.edu (HELO soapstone1.mail.cornell.edu) (128.253.83.143) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:37:13 +0000 Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite2.mail.cornell.edu [128.253.83.142]) by soapstone1.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q74HbGYx009194 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2012 13:37:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.9] (cpe-67-249-194-47.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.194.47]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id q74Hb8qj006706 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2012 13:37:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <501D5DC3.3040309@cornell.edu> Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 04:39:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: crash on latest cygwin snapshot References: <20120801125834.GH17949@calimero.vinschen.de> <501A946A.2030102@cornell.edu> <87zk6dcgfg.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <20120802182129.GA11728@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <87r4rpcdhx.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <20120802193416.GB11728@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <501B3FE6.90006@cornell.edu> <20120803034119.GA15831@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20120803162146.GA15383@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <501C2E54.6080603@cornell.edu> <20120803234809.GA18316@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20120803234809.GA18316@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-CORNELL-SPAM-CHECKED: Pawpaw X-Original-Sender: kbrown@cornell.edu - Sat Aug 4 13:37:10 2012 X-PMX-CORNELL-REASON: CU_White_List_Override X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-08/txt/msg00109.txt.bz2 On 8/3/2012 7:48 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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. Everything still looks good, including the version built with gsettings support. I don't know what fixed the latter, unless maybe it was the /etc problem. Anyway, thanks to you and Corinna for whatever you did. Ken -- 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