From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1769 invoked by alias); 2 Aug 2012 18:10:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 1748 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Aug 2012 18:10:11 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_NEUTRAL,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from soapstone1.mail.cornell.edu (HELO soapstone1.mail.cornell.edu) (128.253.83.143) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 02 Aug 2012 18:09:57 +0000 Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite2.mail.cornell.edu [128.253.83.142]) by soapstone1.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q72IA10d009551 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2012 14:10:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [128.84.234.242] (dhcp242.math.cornell.edu [128.84.234.242]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id q72I9tL4000322 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2012 14:09:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <501AC270.5030909@cornell.edu> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 18:15:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: crash on latest cygwin snapshot References: <86sjc5b6me.fsf@w2139spb.ru.yotateam.com> In-Reply-To: <86sjc5b6me.fsf@w2139spb.ru.yotateam.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-CORNELL-SPAM-CHECKED: Pawpaw X-Original-Sender: kbrown@cornell.edu - Thu Aug 2 14:09:56 2012 X-PMX-CORNELL-REASON: CU_White_List_Override X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-08/txt/msg00057.txt.bz2 On 8/2/2012 12:28 PM, Filipp Gunbin wrote: > Ken Brown writes: > > ... >> Unfortunately, I'm finding that emacs is unstable: The emacs window >> (running under X) simply disappears after 12-24 hours. This may not >> have anything to do with the most recent changes. I haven't yet tested >> any earlier snapshots. > ... > > Hi Ken, > > I observe Emacs crashes in the following scenario: > > - emacs -nw > - run cygwin setup utility, click through it until it finishes (it does not matter whether > any packages are installed or not) > - continue with emacs (for example, type "C-x C-f C-g") - it will crash > > I don't know if it is related to the problem in this discussion, and > probably it's not a good idea to update Cygwin while running Cygwin programs, > but maybe it will give some hint. > > I'm currently on Cygwin 1.7.16, Windows 7 (maybe it started after I > upgraded from Vista recently, but I'm not sure). I can't reproduce this. But you might want to see if it's fixed in the latest snapshot. setup.exe writes to /etc, and Corinna has just fixed a bug involving stack corruption after /etc is modified. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple