From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Emacs freezes every now and then on my windows 7 pc Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 16:23:47 -0700 Message-ID: <1B758CD9545840F1A7FA3D6786813465@us.oracle.com> References: <2f00df9a-2b69-46e0-b3df-e09ca4b0a295@googlegroups.com><836291caqf.fsf@gnu.org> <818vdx0x1h.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1343949844 20857 80.91.229.3 (2 Aug 2012 23:24:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 23:24:04 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Jambunathan K'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 03 01:24:04 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sx4kJ-00037h-33 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 01:23:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49188 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sx4kI-0003d2-9v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:23:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36202) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sx4kD-0003cv-H0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:23:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sx4kC-0005OL-MS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:23:53 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com ([141.146.126.227]:47134) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sx4kC-0005OG-GJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:23:52 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q72NNnVI017088 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 2 Aug 2012 23:23:50 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q72NNnRx026637 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 2 Aug 2012 23:23:49 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt116.oracle.com (abhmt116.oracle.com [141.146.116.68]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q72NNmCb015593; Thu, 2 Aug 2012 18:23:48 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.248) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 02 Aug 2012 16:23:48 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <818vdx0x1h.fsf@gmail.com> Thread-Index: Ac1w+wQCSdLoI1jiQ4qm1ax72p7q8AACTcHA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 141.146.126.227 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:86167 Archived-At: > I am on Windows XP and my Emacs version is the latest one > made available by Christopher - > emacs-20120723-r109189-bin-i386.zip. > > It crashes meaning *very randomly* but it does crash. > Obviously I don't have a recipe to reproduce it. > > It has been so problematic that I switched to the stable version a few > hours back. I think several of us have been having the same or similar problems. FWIW, I have only been able to use the last release (24.1) for quite a while now. Some bugs, including crashes, get fixed, but new ones (including crashes) are engendered. Each week I hope for a new Windows build that works enough to check the fix for some bug I filed for a previous build. But in some cases I have not been able to check fixes because of new bugs (including crashes). And the Windows builds are no longer done weekly, it seems, which aggravates this problem. There seems to be a fair amount of volatility in the C code at this time. Just a guess, based on what I see going by in emacs-devel (without paying too much attention) and what I see in the (Windows) builds I try to use. This is, fortunately, not typical of Emacs development; it is presumably temporary. Let's hope things settle down soon.