Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so

[Ken Brown]

On 4/14/2014 9:28 AM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Of Ken Brown
>> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 9:19 AM
>> Subject: Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so
>>
>> On 4/13/2014 6:46 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
>>>> -----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).
>>>>
>>>>> 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:
>>>>
>>>>> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>>>
>>> (Sigh.  It died again while I was writing this note.)
>>>
>>> Ok.  I have McAfee on this box.  Note that we've had McAfee installed on
>> all laptops here for quite a while, including my older Win32 box, which I
>> didn't see this problem on.
>>
>> Are you sure there's nothing else?  Windows Defender maybe?
>
> I looked through the BLODA list, and I believe that McAfee is the only one that I have installed.

Windows Defender comes with Windows 7; have you disabled it?

Ken

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