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

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 5/8/2014 12:03 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > On 5/7/2014 7:42 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > Of KARR, DAVID
> > > > Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 2:34 PM
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > Of KARR, DAVID
> > > > > Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 10:53 AM
> > > > >
> > > > > 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.
> > > > > Is this a known problem?
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there any useful information I could provide?
> > > >
> > > > I installed the test 24.3.90.1 version, and it hasn't crashed once
> > (yet).
> > > Since I reported this, I've seen it crash several times now, but it
> > doesn't give the usual "Debug?" dialog, it just goes away.  It's died
> > several times today.  I'll start running it from gdb to get a stacktrace.
> >
> > As before, it would be good to know if it crashes when started with the
> > -Q option.
>
> Just so I'm clear, if I use "-Q" that doesn't load anything, so I can't really do much with that.  I can run it, and I can tell you if it ever fails, but it seems unlikely it ever will, because I can't really do anything with it.
>
> So far, I haven't seen the Q instance fail, when my regular instance has failed several times.

This strongly suggests that something in your .emacs is triggering the 
problem.  I think you'll have to do some experimentation to figure out 
what it is.  If you want to send me your .emacs off list, I'll see if I 
spot anything suspicious.

Ken

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