Cygwin 3.4.3 and 3.5.0... hangs in make, top, procps, ls /proc/PID/...

[Brian Inglis]

On 2023-01-19 11:38, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> On Jan 19 09:31, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
>> On 2023-01-18 02:42, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
>>> I tested this yesterday with 7 runs on two machines in parallel while
>>> building Cygwin continuously in another Window, and cygcheck still with
>>> high-entropy-VA enabled.  And one of the machines continued to run the
>>> cygcheck loops over night and were still in good shape this morning :)
>>>
>>> I guess we should release 3.4.4 pretty soon now.
>>
>> I installed and tested 3.5.0-0.122.g3c2ac163da88.x86_64 instead, as that was
>> the autoselected test version.
>>
>> When cygcheck -hrsv was run as usual in local postinstall script
>> zp_z2_l_cygcheck-hrsv.dash gave error msg box can't find zlib1.dll - but
>> it's there:
>>
>> $ ls -glo /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/zlib1.dll
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 117267 Oct 15 12:14
>> /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/zlib1.dll

Setup error message was in null prefixed log:
$ cat -A /var/log/setup.log.runXa13700
^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@C:/usr/local/cygwin64/bin/cygcheck.exe: 
error while loading shared libraries: zlib1.dll: cannot open shared object file: 
No such file or directory$
$ head /var/log/setup.log.runXa13700
C:/usr/local/cygwin64/bin/cygcheck.exe: error while loading shared libraries: 
zlib1.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

>> Under X/mintty/bash cygcheck will not even start - says so in error msg box
>> with code 0xc000007b!
> 
> Drat.  I pushed a patch.  This is fixed in 3.5.0-0.124.g1d4110e347ad.x86_64
> and the upcoming 3.4.5 (had to skip 3.4.4, don't ask...)

Thanks, will test when available to upgrade. ;^>

Also took precautions in postinstall script PATH just in case.
Would we also need to add Windows path to mingw bin to *Windows* PATH (cmd setx) 
to be absolutely certain cyg... mingw builds could always find mingw DLLs?

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis			Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte			Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter	not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer	but when there is no more to cut
			-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry