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RE: emacs (21.2-13) freezing with cygwin 1.5.21-2
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 17:56:09 +0100
- Subject: RE: emacs (21.2-13) freezing with cygwin 1.5.21-2
On 09 August 2006 17:42, Eric Twietmeyer wrote:
> I recently installed the entire cygwin and cygwin/X environment from scratch
> on a new machine. After some minutes the main thread of emacs.exe
> (according to Sysinternal's Process Explorer) starts consuming all the
> resources of one of the processors on the machine and then is completely
> unresponsive.
> ntkrnlpa.exe!KiUnexpectedInterrupt+0x121
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ntkrnlpa.exe!KeReleaseInStackQueuedSpinLockFromDpcLevel+0xb74
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This is the stack trace of the main thread once it has entered into the
> freeze:
>
> ntkrnlpa.exe!KiUnexpectedInterrupt+0x121
> ntkrnlpa.exe!ZwYieldExecution+0x1c5e
> hal.dll+0x2ef2
> ntkrnlpa.exe!KeReleaseInStackQueuedSpinLockFromDpcLevel+0xb09
> ntdll.dll!KiFastSystemCallRet
>
> or sometimes it looks like this:
>
> ntkrnlpa.exe!KiUnexpectedInterrupt+0x121
> ntkrnlpa.exe!ZwYieldExecution+0x1c5e
> hal.dll+0x2ef2
> hal.dll!KeAcquireQueuedSpinLock+0x5
> ntkrnlpa.exe!NtQueryInformationThread+0x2d3
> ntkrnlpa.exe!KeReleaseInStackQueuedSpinLockFromDpcLevel+0xb74
> ntdll.dll!KiFastSystemCallRet
> cygwin1.dll!memmem+0x4f4
> Any info is of course appreciated, and if I can supply any further
> information that would be helpful, please let me know.
All those functions scream "Faulty device driver" to me; it appears to be
hanging in a DPC. Got any dodgy thumbprint readers or logitech webcams
installed?
cheers,
DaveK
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