On Tue, 3 May 2005, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
> I'm in the process of updating my packages. I just upgraded to
> cygwin-1.5.16 from 1.5.12.
>
> Now whenever I run configure from one of my packages sh.exe segfaults
> randomly. A fresh installation of cygwin doesn't have this problem.
>
> The only difference between the problematic installation and the fresh
> one is a running cygwin init service from sysvinit-2.84-4. When I stop
> the init service everything is fine again. (Under cygwin 1.5.12 there
> was no problem)
>
> I can reproduce this problem when ruuning init as service whithout
> adding any system service with chkconfig --add
>
> Is anybody using init and can confirm my findings ?
I'm not using init, but I do observe random crashes of processes
(sometimes sh.exe, sometimes perl, sometimes others) with not-very-useful
stackdumps. I don't have more information at the moment, so didn't report
this to the list. It seems to be correlated with heavy memory usage on
the machine. I'll post when I have any debugging info.
Igor
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