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Subject: Re: emacs (21.2-13) freezing with cygwin 1.5.21-2
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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>

?

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