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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:32:21 -0500
From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
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On 12/12/2012 4:31 AM, Jonas J Linde wrote:
> And Ken Brown spoke unto the world. And said:
>> On 12/6/2012 10:04 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> If that doesn't solve the problem, please try the recently released
>>> (test version) emacs-24.2.90-1.  And be sue to read the release
>>> announcement, because there have been some changes:
>>>
>>>    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-12/msg00004.html
>
> That seems to be working - I've been running emacs-X11-24.2.90-1 for
> more than 24 hours now without a glitch.

Glad to hear it.

>> And here's one other thing you can try.  Install the emacs-debuginfo
>> package.  Then when emacs hangs, you can attach gdb and see if you
>> can get a backtrace that might show where emacs is stuck.
>
> I'm hoping that 24.2.90 is the way to go. Is there any point in
> debugging the old version if the new one doesn't have the same problem?

No.  If the problem comes back, we should concentrate on fixing 24.2.90.

Ken


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