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* Emacs just stopped working for no reason @ 2014-03-06 1:28 Jim Reisert AD1C 2014-03-06 3:10 ` Ken Brown 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Jim Reisert AD1C @ 2014-03-06 1:28 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin-xfree 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? -- Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us -- 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/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: Emacs just stopped working for no reason 2014-03-06 1:28 Emacs just stopped working for no reason Jim Reisert AD1C @ 2014-03-06 3:10 ` Ken Brown 2014-03-06 5:03 ` Jim Reisert AD1C 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Ken Brown @ 2014-03-06 3:10 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin-xfree 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/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: Emacs just stopped working for no reason 2014-03-06 3:10 ` Ken Brown @ 2014-03-06 5:03 ` Jim Reisert AD1C 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Jim Reisert AD1C @ 2014-03-06 5:03 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin-xfree On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > 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". That was exactly the problem! You just saved me a boatload of time. I'll bookmark that link for next time. - Jim -- Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us -- 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/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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