From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19383 invoked by alias); 4 Jun 2008 11:56:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 19375 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Jun 2008 11:56:58 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from blu0-omc1-s36.blu0.hotmail.com (HELO blu0-omc1-s36.blu0.hotmail.com) (65.55.116.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:56:30 +0000 Received: from BLU116-W24 ([65.55.116.8]) by blu0-omc1-s36.blu0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 04:56:20 -0700 Message-ID: From: Jamie Cole To: Subject: RE: 1.5.25: Random segfaults in unix tools Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:56:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: References: <20080527140538.GD32147@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 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: 2008-06/txt/msg00051.txt.bz2 I have completely disabled all non-essential services that may affect Cygwi= n, but we are still getting the random segfaults. Also we have an identical physical (e.g. non VMWare) machine running the sa= me tools and version of Cygwin which does not seg fault. Is it possible the= re is a actually a bug in Cygwin which is causing these problems when runni= ng on a virtual machine? =20 As virtualisation is a growing technology this could cause problems in the = future > From: comp9900405@hotmail.com > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: 1.5.25: Random segfaults in unix tools > Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 15:49:04 +0100 > > > Hmm, I'd not seen that. I'll disable the scanning of the Cygwin directory= in the virus checker. It's also worth noting this is not a physical machin= e but a VMware instance. Is this likely to cause problems? > > ---------------------------------------- >> Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 10:05:38 -0400 >> From: cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com >> To: cygwin@cygwin.com >> Subject: Re: 1.5.25: Random segfaults in unix tools >> >> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 02:36:18PM +0100, Jamie Cole wrote: >>> >>> >>>I'm using Cygwin to provide the UNIX utilities such as sed, awk, cut etc= . to a Windows server. This process works correctly on our dev server, but = when using the same shells and Cygwin install on our prod box these tools r= andomly segfault. >>> >>>The processes will work a number of times (seemingly random), but after = a few runs will invariably begin to segfault as shown below, the only solut= ion is to bounce the box and we get a few more runs before futher segfaults. >>> >>> >>>Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=3D8B909090 >>>eax=3D00000000 ebx=3D61168990 ecx=3D00000007 edx=3D00000000 esi=3D611689= B8 edi=3D0022C900 >>>ebp=3D0022C858 esp=3D0022C850 program=3DC:\cygwin\bin\cut.exe, pid 1620,= thread main >>>cs=3D0023 ds=3D002B es=3D002B fs=3D0053 gs=3D002B ss=3D002B >>>Stack trace: >>>Frame Function Args >>>0022C858 8B909090 (611689B8, 61168990, 10000000, 61168990) >>>0022C888 61084107 (0022C900, 00000001, 00000001, 61168990) >>>0022C8B8 6108447D (00000000, 00000000, 6110941C, 7D61C92D) >>>0022CCE8 61096FB4 (00000000, 00000400, 00000000, 00000000) >>>0022CD98 6100552E (00000000, 0022CDD0, 61005450, 0022CDD0) >>>61005450 61004416 (0000009C, A02404C7, E8611021, FFFFFF48) >>>19 [main] cut 1620 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Error while dumping state= (probably corrupted stack) >>> >>>What is causing the segfaults and how can it be resolved? >> >> Given the failing IP address I'd say it was BLODA: >> >> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda >> >> 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/ >> > > _________________________________________________________________ > Great deals on almost anything at eBay.co.uk. Search, bid, find and win o= n eBay today! > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl0010000004ukm/direct/01/ > > -- > 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/ > _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl0010000007ukm/direct/01/ -- 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/