Re: crash on latest cygwin snapshot

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 8/2/2012 3:34 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 09:14:50PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote:
> > Christopher Faylor writes:
> > > Just to be clear: Is this with the recent snapshot?
> >
> > Yes, this is with the 2012-08-01 snapshot.
> >
> > > I ask because one other "I see something similar" seemed to come from
> > > 1.7.16.
> >
> > I'm almost always running a snapshot, but I can back it out to vanilla
> > Cygwin or any other snapshot if it helps finding the error.  I don't
> > think I've had any other updates except mesa inbetween switching from
> > the snapshot I used before and the current one ??? but that is
> > circumstancial evidence only.
>
> It would be interesting to see if you or Ken have a problem with the
> 20120730 snapshot.
>
> And, if so, then an strace would probably be useful, although it would
> be huge.  If you do get one, let me know how to download it or I can
> provide temporary storage somewhere.

I do have the same problem with the 20120730 snapshot.  I started emacs 
in an xterm window, attached strace, and walked away.  This time it 
didn't take long for emacs to crash, so the strace output isn't huge:

wget http://sanibeltranquility.com/cygwin/strace.out

Ken


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