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Subject:	RE: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so
Date:	Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:28:28 +0000
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> -----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.

> > I'm attaching the cygcheck.out file. I only elided my laptop hostname.
> 
> Nothing jumps out at me in the cygcheck output.
> 
> > I followed the instructions for creating a backtrace (running "gdb -p
> <emacspid>" before clicking YES, and then "continue", and then "bt").
> However, it just said "No stack.".
> 
> You might have to run emacs under gdb and put a breakpoint at
> emacs_abort in order to get a useful backtrace.  But I'm not sure it's

Ok, I'll see if I can do that.

> worth putting a lot of effort into debugging emacs-24.3 at this point,
> because emacs-24.4 is already in its pretest phase.  I'm traveling right
> now, but when I return in about a week I'll build the current pretest
> version for you to try.

Ok.

> One other question: Can you find a way to reproduce the problem, or does
> it just seem to happen randomly?

In fact, I've never seen it fail while I'm doing something in the Emacs window, it's always when I'm off doing something else.
 

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