Hello,
If you try the latest version of Cygwin (3.5.x) or Git for Windows
(2.47) to build LibreOffice, you may have faced the problem that
terminal sometimes gets stuck during the build.
This is the result of my effort to understand the problem:
The issue first appeared in Cygwin shell 3.3 a while ago, and it became
worse in Cygwin 3.5, but with the recent update of "Git for Windows", it
is also visible on "Git bash".
Running "make -d", one can see a lot of debugging information. The
process may hang in many places, but this is one of the hangs, which
reaches mktemp utility:
$ make -d
...
[build DEP] LNK:Library/unobootstrapprotector.dll.d
CreateProcess(C:\cygwin64\bin\mktemp.exe,mktemp --tmpdir=C:/cygwin64/tmp
gbuild.XXXXXX,...)
[ Terminal hangs here ]
I could find the PID of hanging mktemp with:
$ ps ax | grep mktemp
26144 1 23307 10708 cons1 197609 23:38:01
/usr/bin/mktemp
After several tries, I could get some meaningful backtrace from hanging
mktemp by attaching gdb to that. I have installed make-debuginfo and
coreutils-debuginfo alongside gdb-14 to be able to get the backtrace:
$ gdb -p 10708
GNU gdb (GDB) (Cygwin 14.2-1) 14.2
...
Attaching to process 10708
[New Thread 10708.0x80b0]
[New Thread 10708.0x81e8]
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/mktemp.exe...
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug//usr/bin/mktemp.exe.dbg...
(gdb) interrupt
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007ff8519e7a36 in fhandler_console::set_input_mode
(m=m@entry=tty::cygwin,
t=0x1a0030028, p=p@entry=0x800008da8)
at
/usr/src/debug/cygwin-3.5.4-1/winsup/cygwin/fhandler/console.cc:817
#1 0x00007ff8519f175c in fhandler_console::post_open_setup
(this=0x800008ba8,
fd=<optimized out>) at
/usr/src/debug/cygwin-3.5.4-1/winsup/cygwin/fhandler/console.cc:1910
#2 0x00007ff851948796 in dtable::init_std_file_from_handle
(this=this@entry=0x800004870,
fd=fd@entry=0, handle=0xffffffffffffffff, handle@entry=0x424)
at /usr/src/debug/cygwin-3.5.4-1/winsup/cygwin/dtable.cc:425
#3 0x00007ff851948a61 in dtable::stdio_init (this=0x800004870)
at /usr/src/debug/cygwin-3.5.4-1/winsup/cygwin/dtable.cc:162
#4 0x00007ff8519370e7 in dll_crt0_1 ()
at /usr/src/debug/cygwin-3.5.4-1/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc:929
#5 0x00007ff851935d51 in _cygtls::call2 (this=0x7ffffce00,
func=0x7ff851936f10 <dll_crt0_1(void*)>, arg=0x0,
buf=buf@entry=0x7ffffcdf0)
at /usr/src/debug/cygwin-3.5.4-1/winsup/cygwin/cygtls.cc:41
#6 0x00007ff851935dca in _cygtls::call (func=<optimized out>,
arg=<optimized out>)
at /usr/src/debug/cygwin-3.5.4-1/winsup/cygwin/cygtls.cc:28
#7 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
As visible in the backtrace, the problem is in
fhandler_console::set_input_mode() in console.cc:817. Console hangs
after attach_console() is invoked. There were known issues around
multiple processes trying to access console at the same time, and this
issue seems to be because of the exact same problem. Multiple processes
want to write on the console at the same time, and then this concurrency
problem happens, maybe a deadlock.
This is one of the patches that was supposed to fix the problem:
[PATCH] Cygwin: console: Fix race issue on allocating console
simultaneously.
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-patches/2024q3/012722.html
More "race" issues can be seen by searching "race" in newlib-cygwin:
https://cygwin.com/cgit/newlib-cygwin/log/?qt=grep&q=race
Looking into the sources of Cygwin 3.5.4-1 locally, one may see that
fixes b160b690b6ace93ee4225f14a9287549e37f4a71 and
10477d95ec401213d5bded5ae3600ab0d2d5ed94 are already applied, but the
problem still persists.
Also, the issue is not limited to Cygwin, and also happens in the recent
version of "Git for Windows" shell. To describe the same issue on git
bash, you can try 'uname -a' on git bash, which shares some sources with
Cygwin.
On git bash version 2.46, you'll get 3.4.10-2e2ef940.x86_64, but with
the latest, 2.47, you'll get 3.5.4-1e8cf1a5.x86_64. On git bash 2.46,
you may not face the problem, but on git bash 2.47, you may face it
immediately after invoking "make" for LibreOffice core source code.
This is from Git for Windows v2.47.0 release notes:
"Comes with the MSYS2 runtime (Git for Windows flavor) based on Cygwin
v3.5.4, which drops Windows 7 and Windows 8 support."
https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/blob/main/ReleaseNotes.md
One other observation from a LibreOffice developer, Michael W, is the
character by character interleaving of the output on the terminal from
different processes, which should not happen in a buffered STDOUT
(standard output).
One last note is that the more parallelism you use, the more probable is
that you see the build gets stuck. I use 20 parallel processes, but you
may use --with-parallelism=1 to avoid issues, or you can set a larger
value to reproduce the problem.
This is a more detailed backtrace:
(gdb) backtrace full
#0 0x00007ff8519e7a36 in fhandler_console::set_input_mode
(m=m@entry=tty::cygwin,
t=0x1a0030028, p=p@entry=0x800008da8)
at
/usr/src/debug/cygwin-3.5.4-1/winsup/cygwin/fhandler/console.cc:817
unit = 0
oflags = 4294967295
resume_pid = <optimized out>
flags = <optimized out>
#1 0x00007ff8519f175c in fhandler_console::post_open_setup
(this=0x800008ba8,
fd=<optimized out>) at
/usr/src/debug/cygwin-3.5.4-1/winsup/cygwin/fhandler/console.cc:1910
No locals.
#2 0x00007ff851948796 in dtable::init_std_file_from_handle
(this=this@entry=0x800004870,
fd=fd@entry=0, handle=0xffffffffffffffff, handle@entry=0x424)
at /usr/src/debug/cygwin-3.5.4-1/winsup/cygwin/dtable.cc:425
fh = 0x800008ba8
io = {{Status = 6, Pointer = 0x6}, Information =
140704499238208}
fai = {AccessFlags = 8}
openflags = 65538
tp = {c_buf_old = 0, w_buf_old = 0}
buf = {dwSize = {X = 69, Y = 0}, dwCursorPosition = {X = 7, Y =
0},
wAttributes = 16576, srWindow = {Left = 20929, Top = 32760,
Right = 0,
Bottom = 1024}, dwMaximumWindowSize = {X = 20914, Y =
32760}}
dcb = {DCBlength = 4294953784, BaudRate = 7, fBinary = 1,
fParity = 0,
fOutxCtsFlow = 0, fOutxDsrFlow = 0, fDtrControl = 0,
fDsrSensitivity = 0,
fTXContinueOnXoff = 0, fOutX = 1, fInX = 0, fErrorChar = 1,
fNull = 0,
fRtsControl = 0, fAbortOnError = 0, fDummy2 = 0, wReserved =
0, XonLim = 1280,
XoffLim = 21, ByteSize = 0 '\000', Parity = 0 '\000', StopBits
= 45 '-',
XonChar = -58 '\306', XoffChar = -22 '\352', ErrorChar = 54
'6',
EofChar = -89 '\247', EvtChar = -53 '\313', wReserved1 =
24591}
bin = 65536
dev = {<_device> = {_name = 0x7ff851b5c2f5 <msg1+11749>
"/dev/console", d = {
devn = 327681, devn_fh_devices = FH_CONSOLE, {minor = 1,
major = 5}},
_native = 0x7ff851b5c2f5 <msg1+11749> "/dev/console",
exists_func = 0x7ff8519412bc <exists_console(device
const&)>, _mode = 8192,
lives_in_dev = true, dev_on_fs = false, name_allocated =
false,
native_allocated = false}, <No data fields>}
access = <optimized out>
ft = <optimized out>
name = <optimized out>
__PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "void
dtable::init_std_file_from_handle(int, HANDLE)"
#3 0x00007ff851948a61 in dtable::stdio_init (this=0x800004870)
at /usr/src/debug/cygwin-3.5.4-1/winsup/cygwin/dtable.cc:162
in = 0x424
out = 0x18c
err = 0x230
__PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "void dtable::stdio_init()"
#4 0x00007ff8519370e7 in dll_crt0_1 ()
at /usr/src/debug/cygwin-3.5.4-1/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc:929
__PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "void dll_crt0_1(void*)"
#5 0x00007ff851935d51 in _cygtls::call2 (this=0x7ffffce00,
func=0x7ff851936f10 <dll_crt0_1(void*)>, arg=0x0,
buf=buf@entry=0x7ffffcdf0)
at /usr/src/debug/cygwin-3.5.4-1/winsup/cygwin/cygtls.cc:41
res = <optimized out>
#6 0x00007ff851935dca in _cygtls::call (func=<optimized out>,
arg=<optimized out>)
at /usr/src/debug/cygwin-3.5.4-1/winsup/cygwin/cygtls.cc:28
buf = '\000' <repeats 16 times>,
"\r\000\000\000\000\000\000\000`=\301Q\370\177\000\000\030>\301Q\370\177\000\000\320>\301Q\370\177",
'\000' <repeats 58 times>, "pX\223Q\370\177", '\000' <repeats 138
times>...
protect = <optimized out>
#7 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
Regards,
Hossein
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