Re: nice subject

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:38:56PM -0800, Jake D. Stern wrote:
>[This is a bug report, I'm following cygwin reporting instructions by
>posting here.  The subject line has been changed so as to not be refused.
>Original subject line: "xterm consumes 100% cpu when first XWin action is to
>close xterm."]

The fact that your subject was blocked didn't give you enough of a clue that
you were doing something wrong, eh?  The mind boggles.

We HAVE A MAILING LIST for Cygwin/XFree86 discussions.  Use it.

FYI, I've blocked this subject too.  I can keep this up all day if you want.

cgf

>What happens: boot winxp, start cygwin, run startxwin.bat, and XWin starts
>normally.  If the first action is anything other than to close the xterm,
>for example, open the desktop menu, then everything will run fine.  However,
>if the first action is to close the xterm, either by typing 'exit' or by
>clicking on the button in the window bar, the xterm process will consume
>100% of my cpu (according to winxp task manager, assuming that was opened
>previously, because it will take forever to open after.)
>
>Interestingly, after killing the zombie xterm and window manager processes
>in winxp task manager and restart xwin, I can close xterm either by typing
>exit or clicking on the button in the window bar first and everything will
>run fine.  So, it is only the first time after rebooting that this happens.
>I've tried this with wmaker, twm and fvwm2 window managers, and the problem
>persists except for the window manager that forces me to click to place the
>xterm, because that forces a first action other than to close the xterm.
>
>As this is a very strange and unlikely to be stumbled upon, I thought you'd
>want to know about it.   Config follows.
>
>=====
>
>Hardware: Celeron 500, 256M RAM, ASUS CUBX, IBM DPTA-373420, S3 Savage4 32
>M, Adaptec 2940 UW, IBM DCAS-34330, (all running reliably) ...
>
>Software: Recent, stable, clean, licensed install of winXP Pro with .NET
>framework and latest service packs, running very reliably on 8G partition of
>the 34G IDE drive, Debian and DOS are on the 4G SCSI hard drive.
>
>Cygwin: fresh install on Nov 10, 2002.  Modified the environment variables
>slightly to get a prompt I like and the startxwin.bat file to start the
>window manager I like, with only one open xterm, and my xterm preferences.
>
>$ cygcheck -s
>Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
>Current System Time: Wed Nov 13 10:18:28 2002
>
>Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1
>
>Path: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin
>      C:\cygwin\bin
>      C:\cygwin\bin
>      c:\WINDOWS\system32
>      c:\WINDOWS
>      c:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
>      c:\Program Files\Common Files\Adaptec Shared\System
>      c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\Binn\
>      c:\Program Files\SSH Communications Security\SSH Secure Shell
>      C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin
>
>SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\System32
>WinDir: C:\WINDOWS
>
>HOME = `C:\cygwin\home\Jake'
>MAKE_MODE = `unix'
>PWD = `/home/Jake'
>USER = `Jake'
>
>Use `-r' to scan registry
>
>a:  fd           N/A    N/A
>c:  hd  NTFS    8158Mb  74% CP CS UN PA FC     XP
>d:  hd  NTFS   24466Mb  48% CP CS UN PA FC     STORAGE
>e:  hd  FAT      133Mb  32% CP    UN           DOS
>f:  hd  FAT32   2090Mb  17% CP    UN           SHARE
>g:  hd  NTFS       7Mb  99% CP CS UN PA FC     End
>h:  cd           N/A    N/A
>
>C:\cygwin                          /                         system  binmode
>C:\cygwin/bin                      /usr/bin                  system  binmode
>C:\cygwin/lib                      /usr/lib                  system  binmode
>C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts  system  binmode
>.                                  /cygdrive                 user
>binmode,cygdrive
>
>Found: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
>Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe
>Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe
>Found: C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe
>Found: C:\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe
>Not Found: gdb
>Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ld.exe
>Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe
>Found: C:\cygwin\bin\make.exe
>Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe
>
>   58k 2002/05/07 C:\cygwin\bin\cygbz2-1.dll
>  643k 2002/11/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygcrypto.dll
>  475k 2002/10/11 C:\cygwin\bin\cygcurl-2.dll
>   45k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygform5.dll
>   35k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygform6.dll
>   19k 2002/02/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm.dll
>   17k 2001/06/28 C:\cygwin\bin\cyghistory4.dll
>   20k 2002/10/10 C:\cygwin\bin\cyghistory5.dll
>  929k 2002/06/24 C:\cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll
>   22k 2001/12/13 C:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-1.dll
>   28k 2002/09/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-2.dll
>   21k 2001/06/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cygintl.dll
>  119k 2002/02/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygjpeg6b.dll
>   59k 2002/09/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cygkpathsea-3-3-7.dll
>   26k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu5.dll
>   20k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu6.dll
>  156k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++5.dll
>  175k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++6.dll
>  226k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses5.dll
>  202k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses6.dll
>   15k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel5.dll
>   12k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel6.dll
>   40k 2001/11/21 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpcre.dll
>   39k 2001/11/21 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpcreposix.dll
>  175k 2002/07/22 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpng10.dll
>  179k 2002/07/22 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpng12.dll
>   22k 2002/06/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpopt-0.dll
>  108k 2001/06/28 C:\cygwin\bin\cygreadline4.dll
>  127k 2002/10/10 C:\cygwin\bin\cygreadline5.dll
>   66k 2001/11/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cygregex.dll
>  169k 2002/11/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygssl.dll
>  253k 2002/02/10 C:\cygwin\bin\cygtiff3.dll
>   50k 2002/03/12 C:\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll
>  906k 2002/11/07 C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
>    Cygwin DLL version info:
>        DLL version: 1.3.15
>        DLL epoch: 19
>        DLL bad signal mask: 19005
>        DLL old termios: 5
>        DLL malloc env: 28
>        API major: 0
>        API minor: 63
>        Shared data: 3
>        DLL identifier: cygwin1
>        Mount registry: 2
>        Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
>        Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
>        Program options name: Program Options
>        Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
>        Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
>        Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
>        Cygdrive default prefix:
>        Build date: Thu Nov 7 13:57:47 EST 2002
>        CVS tag: cygwin-1-3-15-1
>        Shared id: cygwin1S3
>
>   41k 2002/05/14 C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\cygPropList-0.dll
>
>Cygwin Package Information
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>WindowMaker         0.80.0-2
>XFree86-base        4.2.0-1
>XFree86-bin         4.2.0-2
>XFree86-doc         4.2.0-1
>XFree86-etc         4.2.0-1
>XFree86-f100        4.2.0-2
>XFree86-fcyr        4.2.0-2
>XFree86-fenc        4.2.0-2
>XFree86-fnts        4.2.0-2
>XFree86-fscl        4.2.0-2
>XFree86-fsrv        4.2.0-1
>XFree86-html        4.2.0-1
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