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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Emacs just stopped working for no reason
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 03:10:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5317E6F9.9040506@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK-n8j7ZWquoKr1aYMTCJ0vomJvuO-0sCaY=49grKAMXBdpDmA@mail.gmail.com>
On 3/5/2014 8:28 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> I was away on vacation for a week. Cygwin / X / GNU Emacs 24.3.1 were
> all working normally when I left. I left the computer powered on
> while I was away. No software was updated on the computer during that
> time, though I am running the BOINC software for World Community Grid.
> Computer is running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit.
>
> I left a couple of xterm windows open before I left, because there was
> some work I wanted to be reminded of when I got home.
>
> Upon arriving home last night, I tried to fire up Emacs, but now it's
> not working. It either says "memory exhausted" or just hangs.
>
> I rebooted, nothing changed.
>
> I started "ash" and ran "rebaseall -v". Still, nothing changed.
>
> This is not the first time that Emacs has died. The only way to fix
> the problem is to completely re-install Cygwin from scratch.
>
> Is there *any* way to try to figure out what is causing this?
You might check to see if this is the fontconfig problem that others
have reported (see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-12/msg00248.html):
Try running "fc-cache -fsv".
Ken
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-06 3:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-06 1:28 Jim Reisert AD1C
2014-03-06 3:10 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2014-03-06 5:03 ` Jim Reisert AD1C
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