384498 - tb-win32-tbox hanging in nsinstall

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 392931

(Release Engineering :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Among the times I know of, in the last week: bug 383695, bug 383892, bug 384146, bug 384488, though there are probably others where the bug didn't mention what was stuck, or nagios caught it from the 28 hour old build, so there wasn't a bug. And from the wayback machine, http://wiki.mozilla.org/Build:OutageReports:20070219-01

Dunno if there's anything that can be done, but I don't let that bother me when I can add to your bugburden.

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Attachment: process tree

While fixing the latest hang (bug 384609), I grabbed the attached output from 
  procps -aux --forest
The last line is sh launching nsinstall. Windows task manager reports a sh.exe process (PID 2152) using 99%, and using "procps -A --forest" says that 2184 nsinstall is defunct.

Comment 2

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Cygwin is version 1.5.19-4 on this box. Assorted highlights from the Cygwin changelog:

1.5.22.1 - Change heap and mmap allocation to circumvent fork problems on
  Windows 2003 and Vista.  (corinna)
1.5.23.1 - Fix a bug in forking a child process, which could result in defunct
  processes and processes not listed in Cygwin's process list. (cgf, corinna)

Comment 3

[John O'Duinn [:joduinn] (please use "needinfo?" flag)]

We'll see if this is still a problem after we move to the new ref platform.

Comment 4

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

The new ref platform is deployed now as tbnewref-win32-tbox and is reporting to the Thunderbird tree in tinderbox. Please reopen if the issue persists.