Re: fairywren exiting in ecpg

On 2023-04-03 Mo 21:15, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Looks like fairywren is possibly seeing something I saw before and spent many
> days looking into:
> https://postgr.es/m/20220909235836.lz3igxtkcjb5w7zb%40awork3.anarazel.de
> which led me to add the following to .cirrus.yml:
>
> # Cirrus defaults to SetErrorMode(SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX | ...). That
> # prevents crash reporting from working unless binaries do SetErrorMode()
> # themselves. Furthermore, it appears that either python or, more likely,
> # the C runtime has a bug where SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX can very
> # occasionally *trigger* a crash on process exit - which is hard to debug,
> # given that it explicitly prevents crash dumps from working...
> # 0x8001 is SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS | SEM_NOOPENFILEERRORBOX
> CIRRUS_WINDOWS_ERROR_MODE: 0x8001
>
>
> The mingw folks also spent a lot of time looking into this ([1]), without a
> lot of success.
>
> It sure looks like it might be a windows C runtime issue - none of the
> stacktrace handling python has gets invoked. I could not find any relevant
> behavoural differences in python's code that depend on SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX
> being set.
>
> It'd be interesting to see if fairywren's occasional failures go away if you
> set MSYS=winjitdebug (which prevents msys from adding SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX to
> ErrorMode).
>

trying now. Since this happened every build or so it shouldn't take long
for us to see.

(I didn't see anything in the MSYS2 docs that specified the possible
values for MSYS :-( )

cheers

andrew

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