Re: crash on latest cygwin snapshot

[Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>]

On 8/3/2012 7:48 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 04:02:28PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 8/3/2012 12:21 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 11:41:19PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 11:05:10PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>>> On 8/2/2012 3:34 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 09:14:50PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote:
>>>>>>> Christopher Faylor writes:
>>>>>>>> Just to be clear: Is this with the recent snapshot?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes, this is with the 2012-08-01 snapshot.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I ask because one other "I see something similar" seemed to come from
>>>>>>>> 1.7.16.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm almost always running a snapshot, but I can back it out to vanilla
>>>>>>> Cygwin or any other snapshot if it helps finding the error.  I don't
>>>>>>> think I've had any other updates except mesa inbetween switching from
>>>>>>> the snapshot I used before and the current one ???  but that is
>>>>>>> circumstancial evidence only.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It would be interesting to see if you or Ken have a problem with the
>>>>>> 20120730 snapshot.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And, if so, then an strace would probably be useful, although it would
>>>>>> be huge.  If you do get one, let me know how to download it or I can
>>>>>> provide temporary storage somewhere.
>>>>>
>>>>> I do have the same problem with the 20120730 snapshot.  I started emacs
>>>>> in an xterm window, attached strace, and walked away.  This time it
>>>>> didn't take long for emacs to crash, so the strace output isn't huge:
>>>>>
>>>>> wget http://sanibeltranquility.com/cygwin/strace.out
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.  I think I see the problem but I won't be able to get to it
>>>> tonight.
>>>>
>>>> It's in the new signal handling code.
>>>
>>> I was actually able to duplicate this fairly easy.  It took me too long
>>> to realize that I had to run the X version of emacs, when that should
>>> have been obvious from the strace.
>>>
>>> I have uploaded a new snapshot which should fix the problem.
>>>
>>> Can you confirm Ken?
>>
>> I'm testing.  It looks good so far, but I'd like to get emacs running
>> without a crash for 24 hours before I'm confident.  I'll report back
>> tomorrow.
>>
>> I'm also testing to see if the recent changes have fixed the problem
>> that I was struggling with in
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2012-04/msg00048.html .  That also
>> looks good so far.
>
> Well, fingers crossed, but I'm not aware of anything which would fix what
> you describe there.

Everything still looks good, including the version built with gsettings 
support.  I don't know what fixed the latter, unless maybe it was the 
/etc problem.  Anyway, thanks to you and Corinna for whatever you did.

Ken


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