On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 12/12/2013 3:42 PM, William M. (Mike) Miller wrote: >> >> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 02:45:27PM -0500, Ken Brown wrote: >>>> >>>> On 12/12/2013 1:25 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:13:34PM -0500, Ken Brown wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On 12/12/2013 11:41 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Ken Brown writes: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> ***MEMORY-ERROR***: emacs[2924]: GSlice: failed to allocate 2040 >>>>>>>>> bytes >>>>>>>>> (alignment: 2048): Cannot allocate memory >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm seeing the same thing on Win7/64 Pro, both for 64bit and 32bit >>>>>>> Cygwin. Since I don't normally use the X11 Emacs, unfortunately I >>>>>>> don't >>>>>>> know which update was introducing this, it used to worked OK a few >>>>>>> weeks >>>>>>> ago. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> And do you also use Windows Defender? >>>>>> >>>>>> If this isn't BLODA, I'm completely stumped. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Would running under strace help? >>>> >>>> >>>> It might. Achim or Mike (or anyone who can reproduce this problem), >>>> could you run "strace -o strace.out emacs-X11 -Q" and post strace.out >>>> somewhere? >>> >>> >>> Btw, posting it somewhere is a good suggestion since strace output seems >>> to be giving spamassassin some problems lately, making it hard to send >>> here. >> >> >> Okay, here it is: >> >> >> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5QasYpFDUHeWGdsQ0RlWkk5Wm8/edit?usp=sharing > > > There's something weird going on with fonts. I'm not very good at > interpreting strace output, but it looks like emacs is trying to read all > the fonts on your system and running out of memory. I suggest that you > delete the directories ~/.fontconfig and ~/.cache/fontconfig. Then run (as > administrator) "fc-cache -fsv". See if that helps.
I did not have those directories in my home directory, but I ran the fc-cache command as you suggested, and that fixed the problem. Thanks! -- William M. (Mike) Miller | Edison Design Group william.m.mil...@gmail.com -- 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
