Re: stabilizing cygwin emacs, was: 20040217 snapshot problem

[Thomas L Roche <tlroche at us dot ibm dot com>]

Richard Campbell Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:51:56 -0500 -----
> I was trying the 20040217 snapshot to see if it cleared up the emacs
> problems I was having (which haven't been repeatable enough for me
> to report). 

Umm ... what problems?

> After installing the 20040217 snapshot, starting X led to inetd
> consuming all available cpu and no X starting. After shutting down
> inetd, starting X just returned. XWin.exe dropped straight back to a
> command prompt.

> This is repeatable - I've switched cygwin1.dll back and forth from
> 1.5.7-1 to 20040217 snapshot,

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). Furthermore I
seem to have a configuration similar to yours:

> bash-2.05b$ cygcheck -svr | grep -e 'Windows\|cygwin\|XFree86\|emacs'
> Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3
> OS = `Windows_NT'
>  1096k 2004/02/17 d:\ProgramFiles\Cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 
img=1.0 sys=4.0
>                   "cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=2004/2/17 15:09
>         DLL identifier: cygwin1
>         Shared id: cygwin1S4
> cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation() failed: 87
> Last downloaded files to: D:\download\cygwin
> Last downloaded files from: ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/sourceware/cygwin
> cygwin                  1.5.7-1 
> cygwin-doc              1.3-6 
> 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 

Richard Campbell Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:51:56 -0500
> How best to track this down a little better?

You wanna try debugging emacs? I (and perhaps others :-) could advise
(in my case, out of guilt--I gotta get back to work, so I probably
couldn't start debugging it myself until March).


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