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Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 09:37:12 -0400
From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
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On 5/15/2012 8:26 AM, Filipp Gunbin wrote:
> Sorry, the message disappeared for some reason. Here it is.
>
> Filipp
>
>
> Ken Brown writes:
>
>> On 5/15/2012 6:57 AM, Filipp Gunbin wrote:
>>> I tried emacs-24, but with no luck: after hitting `C-x C-f C-g' emacs
>>> almost always dumps core.  I had to revert to emacs-23 for now (using
>>> the workaround with emacs-nox, thanks for it!).
>>>
>>> Sorry for the poor report, probably I could provide more details if
>>> needed.
>>
>> Please do provide details, including the cygcheck output requested at
>>
>>    http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>>
>> Give a complete recipe for reproducing the problem, preferably
>> starting with `emacs -Q'.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>
>
> Attached the output from cygcheck. For some reason it dumped core too:
>
> $ cygcheck -s -v -r>  /tmp/cygcheck.out
> Segmentation fault

I wonder if this is the same problem as the one that was reported in

   http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-05/msg00292.html

and fixed in the 2012-05-14 snapshot.

> Other programs seem to work normally (though I haven't tried many).
>
> The steps to reproduce the problem with emacs-24 are:
>
> 1. start emacs: emacs -nw -Q
> 2. C-x C-f C-g
> Here emacs either dumps core or hangs.

I can reproduce this on XP but not on Windows 7.  And I see from your 
(partial) cygcheck output that you're running Vista.  I'll try to debug 
this on my XP system.

Ken

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