Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Fri May 9 00:05:00 GMT 2014
On 5/8/2014 12:03 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> On 5/7/2014 7:42 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> Of KARR, DAVID
>>>> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 2:34 PM
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> Of KARR, DAVID
>>>>> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 10:53 AM
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this a known problem?
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any useful information I could provide?
>>>>
>>>> I installed the test 24.3.90.1 version, and it hasn't crashed once
>> (yet).
>>>
>>> Since I reported this, I've seen it crash several times now, but it
>> doesn't give the usual "Debug?" dialog, it just goes away. It's died
>> several times today. I'll start running it from gdb to get a stacktrace.
>>
>> As before, it would be good to know if it crashes when started with the
>> -Q option.
>
> Just so I'm clear, if I use "-Q" that doesn't load anything, so I can't really do much with that. I can run it, and I can tell you if it ever fails, but it seems unlikely it ever will, because I can't really do anything with it.
>
> So far, I haven't seen the Q instance fail, when my regular instance has failed several times.
This strongly suggests that something in your .emacs is triggering the
problem. I think you'll have to do some experimentation to figure out
what it is. If you want to send me your .emacs off list, I'll see if I
spot anything suspicious.
Ken
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