This is the mail archive of the
cygwin@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: Setup hangs in postinstall
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Antoine Labour wrote:
> Brian Ford wrote:
> > Have you tried to strace it?
> >
Antonine, you might try the same. It might be more informative to see
how we got there than to see just a static stack dump.
strace -o /tmp/tracelog.txt /bin/bash.exe -c yourtestcase.sh.
Then send the tail of that log when you get it to happen.
> > Can you get a stack trace of the hang in gdb? Note: You may need a debug
> > version of the cygwin1.dll or shell for this to be valid. I will provide
> > the former if you are willing to test it.
>
> FWIW here's a link to a previous message of mine in which I give a full
> stack(s) trace(s) of both parent and child processes.
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-11/msg00796.html
>
Yes, sorry again. My memory is failing me. I still have that message in
my inbox.
> I'm sorry I can't do much more since this problem occurs only randomly
> on my machine(s).
>
Could you try current cvs and post the stack trace again? Thanks.
I am trying to take a look as time permits.
--
Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
Phone: 314-551-8460
Fax: 314-551-8444
--
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/