From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18187 invoked by alias); 6 Mar 2014 03:10:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 18175 invoked by uid 89); 6 Mar 2014 03:10:04 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: limerock01.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock01.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock01.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.12.99) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 03:10:01 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite4.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.9]) by limerock01.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id s2639xDx024286 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 22:09:59 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.5] (cpe-67-249-194-47.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.194.47]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id s2639viw015899 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 22:09:58 -0500 Message-ID: <5317E6F9.9040506@cornell.edu> Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 03:10:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Emacs just stopped working for no reason References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-03/txt/msg00002.txt.bz2 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/