On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 07:53:05AM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: >On 6/24/2012 5:30 PM, marco atzeri wrote: >> while building latest atlas I hit a bug that is crashing all the running >> cygwin process. >> It crashes on 20120619 snapshot and also latest cvs source. >> No issue on 20120611 snapshot. > >I'm also seeing this crash, but it does not kill all running cygwin >processes. The only processes that die are the mintty processes and the >associated bash processes. For example, it just happened a few minutes >ago, and XWin survived, along with emacs and xterm. > >It happens intermittently, maybe once every 3 days, and I haven't found >a simple sequence of steps for reproducing it. All I can say for sure >is that I always have more than one mintty running, and they all die. > >Marco, are you sure all cygwin processes die when you experience this >problem? Also, since you can reliably reproduce the crash, have you >tried reverting to the previous version of mintty? Note that mintty was >updated just a few days before the 20120619 snapshot was released.
He indicated that some processes kept running. But, hmm. I haven't updated mintty lately. I will try that. cgf -- 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
