Re: stabilizing cygwin emacs

2004-02-20 Thread Thomas L Roche
FWIW: I can't point to any specific fixes, and I know my experience differs from others reported, but: I've been running emacs for 3 days now on X on 2004021<7|8>, and have had precisely _1_ crash. That's the best record I've experienced since "upgrading" from 1.5.5-1. (That 1 crash came while on a

RE: stabilizing cygwin emacs

2004-02-18 Thread Richard Campbell
>> And if I could start X under 20040217, emacs might well not crash. > >So your problems have appeared while running -nw? No, no. My problem of intermittent crashes has occurred running emacs under X under cygwin 1.5.7-1. Under cygwin 20040217 (or any post 1.5.7-1 snapshot), I cannot start X

RE: stabilizing cygwin emacs

2004-02-18 Thread Thomas L Roche
Richard Campbell Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:44:10 -0500 > Intermittent crashes, sometimes with a stackdump produced, sometimes > not. Generally after several hours/days of execution. Tom Roche wrote: >> Hmm ... I don't recall ever having that problem on either 1.5.7-1 >> (my problems have involved emacs

RE: stabilizing cygwin emacs, was: 20040217 snapshot problem

2004-02-18 Thread Richard Campbell
>> I was trying the 20040217 snapshot to see if it cleared up the emacs >> problems I was having (which haven't been repeatable enough for me >> to report). > >Umm ... what problems? Intermittent crashes, sometimes with a stackdump produced, sometimes not. Generally after several hours/days of ex

Re: stabilizing cygwin emacs, was: 20040217 snapshot problem

2004-02-18 Thread Thomas L Roche
Richard Campbell Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:51:56 -0500 - > I was trying the 20040217 snapshot to see if it cleared up the emacs > problems I was having (which haven't been repeatable enough for me > to report). Umm ... what problems? > After installing the 20040217 snapshot, starting X led to inet