i am using the latest 1.5.5-1, with everything updated via setup within the last couple of days. Windows 2000, all the latest sp's and patches.
ever since upgrading from 1.3.something to 1.5.5-1, i've gotten periodic hangs of various sorts. in all cases, the console is completely wedged and can only be killed through the upper-right-hand close button. [1] i have an expect script that runs telnet. sometimes when run, it gets as far as `Spawning telnet xxx ...' then wedges, with 100% CPU chewage. this appears to increase in frequency until eventually it happens always, and can only be fixed by rebooting. [2] for awhile i was getting 100% repeatable wedges [no CPU usage] by running tail on a long file. the following is what tail was attempting to display: Folder: /usr/home/wing/users/wing/mail/Trash 5211 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 17 06:36:43 2003 Subject: (RAZOR2_CHECK) (RCVD_IN_SBL) (RCVD_IN_NJABL) Ben, Make Your Debt Disa Folder: /usr/home/wing/users/wing/mail/Trash 12445 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 17 06:45:32 2003 Subject: (RAZOR2_CHECK) \xc4\xfa\xba\xc3,\xb9\xd8\xd3\xda\xce\xd2\xc3\xc7\xba\xcf\xd7\xf7\xca\xc2\xd2\xc b Folder: /usr/home/wing/users/wing/mail/Trash 11483 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED]@FINANCEBIZ.COM.BR Fri Oct 17 06:50:53 2003 Subject: (HTML only) (RAZOR2_CHECK) (PYZOR_CHECK) (DCC_CHECK) (RCVD_IN_NJABL) Folder: /usr/home/wing/users/wing/mail/Trash 7190 [in place of \x sequences are actual characters; none of these lines should wrap, if they are, that's my mail reader's fault.] it was hanging when trying to display the line with the weird characters in it. last thing you'd see is the previous line. unfortunately i can't reproduce this any longer. instead, i get output like this: 666:~/etc/users/wing/procmail 117$ tail procmail.log.old Folder: /usr/home/wing/users/wing/mail/Trash 5211 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 17 06:36:43 2003 Subject: (RAZOR2_CHECK) (RCVD_IN_SBL) (RCVD_IN_NJABL) Ben, Make Your Debt Disa Folder: /usr/home/wing/users/wing/mail/Trash 12445 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 17 06:45:32 2003 BIZ.COM.BR Fri Oct 17 06:50:53 2003 Subject: (HTML only) (RAZOR2_CHECK) (PYZOR_CHECK) (DCC_CHECK) (RCVD_IN_NJABL) Folder: /usr/home/wing/users/wing/mail/Trash 7190 where there's some text eaten but no hanging. ben -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/