Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/08/10/14:32:47
On 08/10/2006, Eric Twietmeyer wrote:
> > Eric Twietmeyer wrote:
> >>> > >> From: Eric Twietmeyer <ept at terrex dot com>
> >>> > >> To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
> >>> > >> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:19:42 -0700
> >>> > >> Subject: FW: emacs (21.2-13) freezing with cygwin 1.5.21-2
> >>> > >> Reply-to: ept at terrex dot com
> >>> > >>
> >>> > >>
> >>> > >> I'm on a brand new machine, there may be some kind of hardware /
> >>> > >> driver issues with it, but if so, only emacs is being affected.
> >>> > >> There is a minimal set of devices installed on the box, so
> > > no extra
> >>> > >> webcams or anything installed.
> >>> > >>
> >>> > >> Has anyone else run into a problem with the latest
> > > cygwin.dll release
> >>> > >> and emacs?
> >>> > >>
> >>> > >> Thanks again,
> >>> > >>
> >>> > >> -Eric
> >>> > >>
> >>> > >>
> >>> > >> -------------------------------
> >>> > >>
> >>> > >> Yes, I have experienced this same problem on a new installation of
> >>> > >> cygwin on my Thinkpad T60 (which does incidentally have a
> > > thumb-print
> >>> > >> reader, but that is neither here nor there) as well as on a Dell
> >>> > >> Optiplex 280.
> >>> > >>
> >>> > >> M
> >>> > >>
> >> > >
> >> > > Thanks for the response. I too am on some new Dell box, and can
> >> > > provide further hardware info if that seems necessary.
> >> > >
> >> > > I have backed out to cygwin version 1.5.18, and I have not
> > > been able
> >> > > to duplicate the emacs freeze (the emacs revision number
> > > remains the same).
> >> > >
> >> > > Although I work full time as a software engineer, I have not ever
> >> > > attempted to debug in the cygwin environment, and have
> > > never used gdb
> >> > > (afraid my experience is limited to Windows and the MS IDE
> > > environment
> >> > > in recent years). However, I am willing to perform any tests that
> >> > > people feel would be useful if, as seems at least possible,
> > > there is a
> >> > > problem with the 1.5.21 version of cygwin1.dll in
> > > conjunction with emacs.
> > >
> > >
> > > Has anyone having this problem looked at whether it's related
> > > to previously reported problems like:
> > >
> > > <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-05/msg00790.html>
> > >
> > > ?
> > >
>
> It doesn't seem to be related, as I don't have any of these devices
> installed on my box. I thought it might be related to some McAfee virus
> checking service running on my machine, and disabled it, but the freeze
> still occurred. Again, after backing out to 1.5.18, emacs is now stable,
> and I have made no other changes to my system.
>
Just so it's clear, just disabling most virus scanners is not enough to
eliminate them as a contributing factor. That's because they install
themselves into the network stack. The only way to be sure you're not
getting problems related to the scanners is to uninstall and retry. I
don't know whether McAfee causes problems in this regard myself.
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