Re: stabilizing cygwin emacs

Re: stabilizing cygwin emacs

[Thomas L Roche]

FWIW: I can't point to any specific fixes, and I know my experience
differs from others reported, but: I've been running emacs for 3 days
now on X on 2004021<7|8>, and have had precisely _1_ crash. That's
the best record I've experienced since "upgrading" from 1.5.5-1.
(That 1 crash came while on a VPN, so it may have been related to
network drives dis/reconnecting, and it also came while I was away
from the keyboard and all work was saved, so it was not so annoying.)
My current config is

cygcheck -svr | grep -ie 'cygwin1\|xfree\|emacs'
>  1096k 2004/02/20 d:\ProgramFiles\Cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0
>  img=1.0 sys=4.0
>                   "cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=2004/2/18 17:38
>         DLL identifier: cygwin1
>         Shared id: cygwin1S4
> emacs                   21.2-12 
> emacs-el                21.2-12 
> emacs-X11               21.2-12 
> XFree86-base            4.3.0-1 
> XFree86-bin             4.3.0-8 
> XFree86-etc             4.3.0-6 
> XFree86-fenc            4.2.0-3 
> XFree86-fnts            4.2.0-3 
> XFree86-lib             4.3.0-1 
> XFree86-lib-compat      4.3.0-2 
> XFree86-startup-scripts 4.2.0-5 
> XFree86-xserv           4.3.0-44 

which appears to be up-to-date wrt those packages.


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RE: stabilizing cygwin emacs

[Richard Campbell]

>> And if I could start X under 20040217, emacs might well not crash.
>
>So your problems have appeared while running -nw?

No, no.  My problem of intermittent crashes has occurred running emacs 
under X under cygwin 1.5.7-1.

Under cygwin 20040217 (or any post 1.5.7-1 snapshot), I cannot start X 
at all.  As a result, I have reverted to 1.5.7-1.

What I was saying was that since 20040217 fixed emacs problems for others,
it might work for me as well.  However, I can't tell because I'm unwilling
to give up X.

-Richard Campbell.

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RE: stabilizing cygwin emacs

[Thomas L Roche]

Richard Campbell Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:44:10 -0500
> Intermittent crashes, sometimes with a stackdump produced, sometimes
> not. Generally after several hours/days of execution.

Tom Roche wrote:
>> Hmm ... I don't recall ever having that problem on either 1.5.7-1
>> (my problems have involved emacs crashing after starting, not
>> failing to start) or 20040217 (on which emacs hasn't crashed yet).

> And if I could start X under 20040217, emacs might well not crash.

So your problems have appeared while running -nw?

FWIW, IIRC all the other reports about problems with emacs with cygwin
> 1.5.5-1 have involved emacs under X, so that alone (if I understand
you correctly) is an interesting datapoint.


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