Re: Emacs crashing under XFree86-4.3

Re: Emacs crashing under XFree86-4.3

[Thomas L Roche]

Rajesh Balakrishnan Wed, 17 Mar 2004 04:21:28 +0000 (UTC)
> emacs (under X11) is working fine since Mar 06 snapshot of
> cygwin1.dll. http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

That has not been my experience: I have been tracking the snapshots,
but my emacs still segfaults, dumps core, etc. Hopefully I will get a
chance to build sources and debug soon.

Re: Emacs crashing under XFree86-4.3

[Gregory Borota]

> Rajesh Balakrishnan Wed, 17 Mar 2004 04:21:28 +0000 (UTC)
> 
>>emacs (under X11) is working fine since Mar 06 snapshot of
>>cygwin1.dll. http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> 
> 
> That has not been my experience: I have been tracking the snapshots,
> but my emacs still segfaults, dumps core, etc. Hopefully I will get a
> chance to build sources and debug soon.
> 
> 
I had the same crashing troubles with Emacs (XP). So I switched to 
XEmacs. It works good, no crashing ever just that it's CPU hungry (and 
it shouldn't be started from Start menu links but from a terminal) .

Greg

Re: Emacs crashing under XFree86-4.3

[Ehud Karni]

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On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Zdzislaw Meglicki <zdzisiekm (at) hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> These are tidings of great sorrow and melancholy, for ever since I
> upgraded X11 on my Cygwin workstation (about a week ago) I lost my
> reliable faithful friend, GNU Emacs, whose X11 version crashes often
> and unpredictably with segmentation fault (the "nox" version runs
> fine).

On Mon, 17 Mar 2004, Rajesh Balakrishnan <rajesh_balakrishnan (at) yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> emacs (under X11) is working fine since Mar 06 snapshot of cygwin1.dll.
> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
>
> Try it out.

I had some problems with the 2004-03-06 snapshot (or the XWin server
4.3.0.50), but since my last update Emacs works fine. I use:

    XWin X Server 4.3.0.55
    cygwin1.dll 1.5.8s(0.111/4/2) - 2004-03-12 18:34:47 snapshot

I noted also that the clipboard problems has been fixed.

Ehud.


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Re: Emacs crashing under XFree86-4.3

[Rajesh Balakrishnan]

Zdzislaw Meglicki <zdzisiekm <at> hotmail.com> writes:

> 
> These are tidings of great sorrow and melancholy, for ever since I upgraded
> X11 on my Cygwin workstation (about a week ago) I lost my reliable faithful
> friend, GNU Emacs, whose X11 version crashes often and unpredictably with
> segmentation fault (the "nox" version runs fine).

emacs (under X11) is working fine since Mar 06 snapshot of cygwin1.dll.
http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

Try it out.

-rb

Emacs crashing under XFree86-4.3

[Zdzislaw Meglicki]

These are tidings of great sorrow and melancholy, for ever since I upgraded
X11 on my Cygwin workstation (about a week ago) I lost my reliable faithful
friend, GNU Emacs, whose X11 version crashes often and unpredictably with
segmentation fault (the "nox" version runs fine).

I run Emacs and X11 server directly on my localhost's display, so OpenSSH is
not involved (there were some comments on this mailing lists to the effect
that OpenSSH was the culprit). The current versions of various software
packages I have running on my XP box are:

Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1
cygwin                  1.5.7-1
XFree86-base            4.3.0-4
XFree86-xserv           4.3.0-55
XFree86-lib             4.3.0-2
XFree86-bin             4.3.0-15
XFree86-etc             4.3.0-9
XFree86-prog            4.3.0-16
emacs                   21.2-12
emacs-el                21.2-12
emacs-X11               21.2-12

On the latest Emacs crash the following message was left on my console:

X protocol error: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length
error) on protocol request 56

The X11 server is run from startxwin.sh with the -multiwindow and -clipboard
options.

Another X11 tool that doesn't even come up and crashes right away is xedit,
but I don't care about it too much. About Emacs, though, I care a great
deal.

xterm, xclock, xbiff -- all these run fine, as well as ssh, sshd, exim,
compilers, etc. Xemacs seems to be running well too.

So, why? Why Emacs? Why me? Why now?

Sob, sob...

Zdzislaw (Gustav) Meglicki, Office of the Vice President for Information
Technology, Indiana University, 601 E. Kirkwood Ave., Room 112,
Bloomington, IN 47405-1223, USA, ph: 812-856-5597, fax: 812-855-3310,
mob: 812-345-3284, gustav@indiana.edu, http://beige.ucs.indiana.edu/gustav