On Jul 30 17:49, Aleš wrote: > > Hello, > > I can confirm the issue. It's occurring after upgrade to 1.7.16 and seems to > be limited to VMWare guests in my case. Any write attempt within the /etc > directory causes sshd to crash. Other directories are fine. > > uname -a before upgrade (sshd doens't crash): > CYGWIN_NT-6.0-WOW64 dbs6 1.7.15(0.260/5/3) 2012-05-09 10:25 i686 Cygwin > and after upgrade (sshd crashes): > CyGWIN_NT-6.0-WOW64 dbs6 1.7.16(0.262/5/3) 2012-07-20 22:55 i686 Cygwin > > > cygrunsrv -S sshd > ssh localhost > $ touch /etc/x > Connection to localhost closed by remote host. > Connection to localhost closed. > > > A familiar message appears in the event log: > service sshd failed: signal 11 raised > > The /etc/x file gets created in the example above. If running vim /etc/x > instead, the .x.swp file gets also created and a vim-nox.exe process keeps > on living, taking all CPU resources till it's killed. > > I have reproduced this on over ten machines running MS Server 2003 and 2008, > all VMware guests.
I can reproduce this as well. I also found the patch which introduced the problem, but it's not clear yet, why. Stay tuned. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
