From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thomas L Roche Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin,gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: EMACS problems with Cygwin 1.5.7.1 Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:30:25 -0500 Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077046264 12526 80.91.224.253 (17 Feb 2004 19:31:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:31:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: cygwin-return-88345-cygwin=quimby.gnus.org@cygwin.com Tue Feb 17 20:30:59 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AtAvq-0008PS-00 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:30:58 +0100 Original-Received: from sources.redhat.com ([67.72.78.213]) by quimby.gnus.org with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AtAvq-0007dA-00 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:30:58 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 18517 invoked by alias); 17 Feb 2004 19:30:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Original-Received: (qmail 18510 invoked from network); 17 Feb 2004 19:30:29 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO e35.co.us.ibm.com) (32.97.110.133) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Feb 2004 19:30:29 -0000 Original-Received: from westrelay03.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay03.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.12]) by e35.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.10/8.12.2) with ESMTP id i1HJUSF4446566; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:30:28 -0500 Original-Received: from d03nm120.boulder.ibm.com (d03av01.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.193.81]) by westrelay03.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VER6.6) with ESMTP id i1HJURVK131224; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:30:27 -0700 Original-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.os.cygwin:44612 gmane.emacs.help:16949 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:16949 On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 andyglewamdcom wrote: >> I have been seeing the same frequent crashes of EMACS on CYGWIN >> 1.5.7.1 that "Ehud Karni" and >> "Charles Plager" have >> already reported to this list. >> Grepping further: >> Thomas L Roche us.ibm.com> >> Dr.. Volkmer Zell Igor Pechtchanski Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:39:26 -0500 (EST) > FWIW, "Ehud Karni" reported in > that the latest > snapshot *does* fix his problem. For another datapoint: emacs life _has_ improved with the 2004021{4, 5, 6} snapshots, so I advise installing http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin1-20040216.dll.bz2 (or whatever is the latest snapshot @ http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ when you get this. Note however that snapshots do not monotonically improve--20040213 was nasty--so if you get a snapshot > 0216 that seems bad, try dropping back to 0216, which Works For Me (YMMV).) That being said, emacs is still not nearly as stable now as it was on 1.5.5-1--in fact, I got an exit 128 (haven't seen one of those before, usually it's just SEGVs) while composing this reply. So while I don't believe Plager's response (dropping back to 1.5.5-1) was optimal, I can see why one might choose that route. Instead I hope to debug emacs after the unzip problem (which more directly harms my productivity) is fixed ... and use that to {test, refine} an expanded debugging-Cygwin howto, which hopefully will encourage others to debug it as well. (Though it's not rocket science, it would be a lot easier if better documented.)