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RE: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so


> -----Original Message-----
> From: KARR, DAVID
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 11:24 AM
> Subject: RE: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Of Ken Brown
> > Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 5:43 PM
> > Subject: Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so
> >
> > On 4/13/2014 10:53 AM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
> > > I recently installed 1.7.29 on a new Win7/64 laptop.  Every day or so,
> I
> > get a "fatal error" dialog from emacs-w32.  It asks me if I want to
> debug
> > it, but I'm not sure what info I could pull from gdb that would be
> useful.
> >
> > A gdb backtrace might or might not be helpful.  I would start with other
> > things first (see below).
> 
> I just saw it die, and this is the bt I get:
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x0000000100551354 in wait_reading_process_output (
>     time_limit=time_limit@entry=0, nsecs=nsecs@entry=0,
>     read_kbd=read_kbd@entry=-1, do_display=do_display@entry=true,
>     wait_for_cell=wait_for_cell@entry=4304630834,
>     wait_proc=wait_proc@entry=0x0, just_wait_proc=just_wait_proc@entry=0)
>     at /usr/src/debug/emacs-24.3-7/src/process.c:4677
> 4677                      if (wait_proc->gnutls_p /* Check for valid
> process.  */
> (gdb)

And to confirm a subsequent question:

(gdb) p wait_proc
$1 = (struct Lisp_Process *) 0x0
(gdb)

> >
> > > Is this a known problem?
> >
> > No.
> >
> > > Is there any useful information I could provide?
> >
> > Since this is a new computer, my first suggestion would be to check the
> > BLODA list (http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.bloda).  If that
> > doesn't help, please make a more detailed report, following the
> > guidelines here:
> >

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