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

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 4/14/2014 9:28 AM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Of Ken Brown
> > Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 9:19 AM
> > Subject: Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so
> >
> > On 4/13/2014 6:46 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
> > > > -----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).
> > > >
> > > > > 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
> > >
> > > (Sigh.  It died again while I was writing this note.)
> > >
> > > Ok.  I have McAfee on this box.  Note that we've had McAfee installed on
> > all laptops here for quite a while, including my older Win32 box, which I
> > didn't see this problem on.
> >
> > Are you sure there's nothing else?  Windows Defender maybe?
>
> I looked through the BLODA list, and I believe that McAfee is the only one that I have installed.

Windows Defender comes with Windows 7; have you disabled it?

Ken

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