Ken Brown <kbr...@cornell.edu> writes: > On 5/14/2012 8:29 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: >> Recently, emacs in a terminal started hanging: >> >> /usr/bin/emacs -nw --no-init-file --no-site-file >> >> I had to kill it from another terminal window. >> >> But I noticed /usr/bin/emacs points through alternatives to >> /usr/bin/emacs-X11, so I started calling /usr/bin/emacs-nox >> directly. (Actually I modified my emn script.) This solves >> the problem for me. >> >> But "emacs -nw" has worked forever until very recently. > > This is a known problem with emacs-23 and glib >= 2.31: > > http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=9754 > > I guess the problem just showed up on Cygwin a few days ago because of > the recent update of the GNOME libraries. And I didn't notice it > myself because I've been using emacs-24, which doesn't have the > problem. > > I'll prepare an update ASAP with a fix. In the meantime, you can > continue with your workaround of calling emacs-nox.exe directly, or > you can try the test version of emacs-24 that's available via > setup.exe. The latter would be appreciated; emacs-24.1 is going to be > released fairly soon, and it would be nice to have some Cygwin users > test it. > > Thanks for the report. > > Ken Brown > Cygwin's emacs maintainer > >
I had the same problem (emacs-23 hangs) today after updating Cygwin including GNOME libraries. 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. In case it matters, I did full rebase (deleted db file and run rebaseall) just before trying emacs-24. -- Filipp Gunbin -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
