Re: tar, scp hang after upgrades

[Susan Kleinmann <sgk at kleinmann dot com>]

More tests (which I think show that the problem is really associated with
the recent Windows ME upgrade):

I tried the same steps on a machine running Windows 98SE.
1.  Upgrade both Windows 98 and cygwin to latest versions.
2.  Use scp to fetch a tar file from another machine.
3.  Try to untar.
Worked fine.  (Note:  This machine has an oldish (4.0) version of NAV, 
which doesn't work in auto-mode; i.e., it scans for viruses only when/if 
specifically invoked to do so.)  

Then I retried steps 2-3 above on the machine running WindowsME, which,
as I said earlier, was updated a few days ago.  The results were:
1.  With NAV enabled, scp succeeded, but tar continued
    to hang as before.  (scp had hung the last 2 dozen or so times I tried it,
    but see below: the behaviour is not always exactly repeatable.)
2.  With NAV disabled, scp succeeded, and tar completed, but reported
    several "Wrote only 0 out of 10240 bytes" errors, and did not extract
    most of the files in the tar file (even though it was easily able
    to 'see' them all using 'tar -tf filename').
    
So, with NAV turned off, I ran the command:
strace tar -xf foo.tar > tar.errors 2>&1

This produced the following errors just prior to the "Wrote only..."
message:

2021282 2597075 [main] tar 1735255 seterrno_from_win_error: /cygnus/netrel/src/cygwin-1.3.10-1/winsup/cygwin/fhandler.cc:279 errno 29
 1105 2598180 [main] tar 1735255 geterrno_from_win_error: unknown windows error 29, setting errno to 13
  435 2598615 [main] tar 1735255 fhandler_base::write: -1 = write (0x4591E68, 698)
  250 2598865 [main] tar 1735255 _write: -1 = write (4, 0x4591E68, 698)
  432 2599297 [main] tar 1735255 _write: write (2, 0x255F39C, 5)
  338 2599635 [main] tar 1735255 fhandler_base::write: binary write
tar:   265 2599900 [main] tar 1735255 fhandler_base::write: 5 = write (0x255F39C, 5)
  240 2600140 [main] tar 1735255 _write: 5 = write (2, 0x255F39C, 5)
  272 2600412 [main] tar 1735255 _write: write (2, 0x255F3CC, 40)
  255 2600667 [main] tar 1735255 fhandler_base::write: binary write
week2/aux.c: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes  265 2600932 [main] tar 1735255 fhandler_base::write: 40 = write (0x255F3CC, 40)

Inconsistencies:  I notice that the output to screen from
tar -xf foo.tar 
sometimes seems to extract a few files before it starts to display 
"Wrote only 0 bytes..." messages.
(I am only speaking here of the situation with NAV turned off, because 
there is no output at all when NAV is turned on.)

Conclusion: the geterrno_from_win_error: unknown windows error 29, 
is a red flag, suggesting to me that some aspect of the last WindowsME
upgrade started a problem.

I appreciate the quick response I got yesterday, and now request some new 
suggestions/tests that might lead to a resolution of this problem.

Thanks,
Susan

> At 01:35 PM 6/7/2002, Susan Kleinmann wrote:
> >In the last few days, I updated cygwin, Windows ME, and Norton anit-virus
> >(I think, but am not sure, that was the order.)  I do this every once a 
> >month or so.
> >
> >Since the latest round of upgrades, both tar and scp seem to hang the 
> >machine, so that all I can do to recover is to remove the battery 
> >and powercord to reboot.
> >
> >Is there some important patch/configuration that I missed?
> 
> 
> Not obviously, no.  I have the latest Cygwin DLL and NAV updated itself 
> just today even.  I have no trouble using "tar" on a file I had.  Of 
> course, I'm on W2K.  The results of strace might help locate the problem
> though, assuming it's Cygwin-based.  Disabling NAV while you run tar or
> scp would help pinpoint if the problem is NAV.
> 
> 
> 
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