On Jun 6 11:04, Seb.Th wrote: > Le 06/06/2013 08:25, Sumudu Fernando a écrit : > > >I'm having a weird issue in 1.7.19. As per the subject line, when I > >try to resume a backgrounded job, I get a hang (after bash echoes the > >job name). I couldn't find anything about this in the list archives, > >possibly because it may be limited to specific architectures (more > >below). > > > >simple testcase from a fresh terminal (I'm using the default mintty, with > >bash) > >$ ls | less > ><CTRL-Z to background less> > >$ fg > > > >whereupon bash echoes the job name (in my case "ls -hF --color=tty | > >less -r") and then nothing happens (no response to input AFAICT) > > > >Interesting things: > >- this only happens on my (ancient) laptop (this is why I mentioned > >the processor in the subject line) -- it *does not* happen on my > >desktop machine (which is a Q6600, nearly ancient now I suppose). > >- Windows task manager shows the process I tried to resume at high CPU > >usage, and if I kill it from there ("end process") bash recovers fine > >- I can open a separate cygwin terminal and see the "ls" in the output > >of ps. It does *not* have an "S" beside it to indicate a suspended > >process. "kill" does nothing, "kill -9" hangs (until I kill via task > >manager). > > > >I attached cygcheck output; I did get some errors (that are in the > >file also) but I don't know what they actually mean (if anything). > > > >FWIW, this did not happen with 1.7.17 (I skipped 1.7.18). > > This problem seems to be very similar to the thread "Bash sub-shell > freezing in Midnight Commander". > > Something went wrong after 1.7.17 (or its dependencies ?)
This is signal stuff which is usually cgf's domain and he's not available for another couple of days. I can reproduce this, however, and I'm trying to find a fix. Stay tuned. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer 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