Re: [Mingw-msys] rxvt in MSYS 1.0.8 crash on beep on WinXP

[Luke D. <cod...@ho...>]

>From: AWL...@ao...
>To: min...@li...
>Subject: [Mingw-msys] rxvt in MSYS 1.0.8 crash on beep on WinXP
>Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 13:47:34 -0500
>
>Hi,
>
>For as long as I've been using MSYS, I've always had
>this problem.  At apparently arbitrary times, the rxvt
>window would stop responding and only be closable by
>using the task manager or similar.

Firstly, what OS are you using? My guess would be 98/ME because IME MSYS 
seems to have much less problems on Win2K/etc. The main reason is that MSYS 
gets tested less often on Win98, especially by the developer(s).

>
>I later realized it must be locking up every time a
>"beep" or bell is generated.  (For eg, I type min<TAB>,
>and there is more than one possibility, so it locks up
>when it would beep.)

I haven't seen this strange problem. What happens if you change or disable 
the "Default sound" in control panel? You should also try creating a file 
called ".inputrc" in your $HOME directory containing the command "set 
bell-style visible", then restarting MSYS. If that doesn't work try "set 
bell-style none".

>
>It also generates weird ghost tasks that don't show
>up in the tasklist, but require closing as
>"non-responding programs" when shutting down (with
>names like rxvtXXX where XXX is some numbers).

I have seen this before on Win98 after forcing MSYS to close, but if we can 
fix the causes of MSYS freezing then it shouldn't be a problem (I hope).

>
>This is extremely annoying, and while I have lived with
>it for a while now, I was upset to discover this bug
>continues to exist in new versions of MSYS.  I have
>been unable to find any information about this bug
>by websearch or mailing list search.
>
>Anyone know how I might fix this?  I would be willing to
>debug rxvt/MSYS if someone let me know how to do this..
>
>
>Aaron W. LaFramboise

I don't know how it might be fixed, but I can help you build a debug version 
of the MSYS DLL which would be a start. First you need to install the 
"msysDVLPR" and "msysDTK" packages and get the "msys" module from Mingw CVS. 
MsysDVLPR contains a special version of GCC and other tools which are 
required to build MSYS, and once you have it you need to start MSYS in a 
special mode that will cause it to use the msysDVLPR compiler by default 
instead of the Mingw compiler. I do this by making a copy of the MSYS 
shortcut and editing it to pass the argument "MSYS" to msys.bat. After that 
you can "configure" and "make" the MSYS DLL, which I prefer to do from a 
directory separate from the source, but I don't think that's required. There 
is an option to enable debugging output (OutputDebugString()) for MSYS but I 
forget what it is so I'll tell you later when you have got that far :).

Luke


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