emacs-X11 unstable under cygwin 3.0.0-1

emacs-X11 unstable under cygwin 3.0.0-1

[Eliot Moss]

I have found that emacs-X11 (26.1-1) is unstable under cygwin 3.0.0-1.  It
works fine if I revert to cygwin 2.11.2-1.  The symptom is random crashing,
generally within the first minute of use.  If I get some time I will try
strace on it.  I have not located a stack dump either - not sure if it's
producing one.  (I normally start emacs from a .XWinrc menu under X; I am not
certain in which directory the X server is running, which presumably would
have to do with where a stack dump file would appear.)

But I thought it worth the report anyway.

The crashes will happen even when just navigating in the emacs buffer, i.e.,
it does not seem obviously related to some action on (e.g.) files.

Regards - Eliot Moss

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Re: emacs-X11 unstable under cygwin 3.0.0-1

[Ken Brown]

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On 2/19/2019 9:47 AM, Eliot Moss wrote:
> I have found that emacs-X11 (26.1-1) is unstable under cygwin 3.0.0-1.  It
> works fine if I revert to cygwin 2.11.2-1.

I'm not seeing any crashes on my system.  I am, however, seeing certain 
operations take longer than they should.  I've just built emacs-26.1.92, which 
is a pretest for the upcoming emacs-26.2.  It seems to work much better.  You 
can get it from my personal Cygwin repository

   http://sanibeltranquility.com/cygwin/

if you want to try it.

Ken
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