X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Brandon Olivares" To: "'Ken Brown'" , References: <000c01c9bbbd$f7a9c040$e6fd40c0$@com> <49E296FB DOT 5000303 AT cornell DOT edu> <000a01c9bc0d$9b22b6b0$d1682410$@com> <49E37E8A DOT 2040409 AT cornell DOT edu> In-Reply-To: <49E37E8A.2040409@cornell.edu> Subject: RE: emacs hanging on Cygwin Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:07:25 -0400 Message-ID: <007e01c9bc7b$d98bd8f0$8ca38ad0$@com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Hi, Thanks a lot. Reinstalling libncurses worked great. Brandon > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On > Behalf Of Ken Brown > Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 2:04 PM > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Subject: Re: emacs hanging on Cygwin > > On 4/13/2009 3:58 AM, Brandon Olivares wrote: > > >> CYGWIN is already set to tty, among other values. But that report > >> doesn't accurately describe the problem I'm having. > >> > >> The problem is that the emacs window becomes unresponsive seemingly > at > >> random, and I have to either kill the process emacs.exe from Windows > >> task manager, or open another cygwin terminal and kill the process. > >> > >> When it becomes unresponsive, I cannot move the cursor, execute any > >> commands, nor exit emacs. > >> > >> The first time it happened, I was just trying to switch between > windows > >> within emacs with C-x o. The next time, I was trying to open another > >> file. I can't remember what prompted all of the other times. Also > >> sometimes it hangs when trying to exit. > >> > >> I'm running Windows Vista, by the way. I forgot to mention that in > my > >> original email. > > The only other thing I know of that sometimes solves emacs/cygwin > problems is reinstalling libncurses7. You'll find a lot of messages in > the mailing list archives about that. If that doesn't do it, you > should > probably follow the instructions in the "Problem reports" link below, > especially the part about attaching cygcheck output. Maybe one of the > cygwin experts will spot something. > > Ken > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/