hi, the fix works, I have tested it with the only vm I have with me.
thanks pawel On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com> wrote: > On Jul 31 14:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> 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. > > I've just applied a patch to fix this problem. It seems this is a long > standing bug which could result in random stack corruption after changing > or adding any file to /etc. I'm just generating a developer snapshot. > Please test the today's snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > Just replacing /bin/cygwin1.dll with the snapshot DLL is sufficient. > > > Thanks in advance, > 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 > -- 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
