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RE: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so


> -----Original Message-----
> Of Ken Brown
> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 5:43 PM
> Subject: Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so
> 
> On 4/13/2014 10:53 AM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
> > I recently installed 1.7.29 on a new Win7/64 laptop.  Every day or so, I
> get a "fatal error" dialog from emacs-w32.  It asks me if I want to debug
> it, but I'm not sure what info I could pull from gdb that would be useful.
> 
> A gdb backtrace might or might not be helpful.  I would start with other
> things first (see below).

I just saw it die, and this is the bt I get:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0000000100551354 in wait_reading_process_output (
    time_limit=time_limit@entry=0, nsecs=nsecs@entry=0,
    read_kbd=read_kbd@entry=-1, do_display=do_display@entry=true,
    wait_for_cell=wait_for_cell@entry=4304630834,
    wait_proc=wait_proc@entry=0x0, just_wait_proc=just_wait_proc@entry=0)
    at /usr/src/debug/emacs-24.3-7/src/process.c:4677
4677                      if (wait_proc->gnutls_p /* Check for valid process.  */
(gdb)

> 
> > Is this a known problem?
> 
> No.
> 
> > Is there any useful information I could provide?
> 
> Since this is a new computer, my first suggestion would be to check the
> BLODA list (http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.bloda).  If that
> doesn't help, please make a more detailed report, following the
> guidelines here:
> 
> > Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> 
> Ken
> 
> 
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