Emacs backgrounds itself

[Ken Brown]

On 5/5/2011 10:34 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Strange one here... I just updated emacs and a bunch of other packages,
> and for some reason 'emacs -nw' now backgrounds itself immediately after
> starting, and again each time I try to foreground it afterward. If I run
> emacs-X11 directly (again, in -nw mode) it segfaults during startup, but
> I haven't been able to catch it in the act using gcc (it seems to load
> properly under gcc but keyboard handling is worthless). Cygcheck output
> is attached.

You should be attaching the output of 'cygcheck -s -v -r'.

> I've tried running a home-built emacs-23.3.1 and it behaves the same
> way; running the same home-built binary against an older install I
> happened to have laying around works normally, so some library update
> must be the culprit. To help narrow things down a bit, a diff of old vs.
> new cygcheck outputs is also attached.

Have you tried rebaseall?

Ken

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