Markus Hoenicka writes: > Am 2014-05-21 13:46, schrieb Ken Brown: > > On 5/21/2014 3:13 AM, Markus Hoenicka wrote: > >> At 2014-05-21 03:42, Ken Brown was heard to say: > >>> On 5/20/2014 7:57 PM, Max Polk wrote: > >>>> I've been noticing the background timer giving odd messages from > >>>> emacs-w32 once in a while such as the following when not touching > >>>> the > >>>> keyboard and the editor is idle.: > >>>> > >>>> seconds-to-time: Arithmetic range error: "round", -0.0e+NaN > >>>> seconds-to-time: Arithmetic range error: "round", 0.0 > >>>> > >>>> The stack dump of a recent emacs crash report on this list seemed to > >>>> be in background timer code. Maybe we found something. > >>> > >>> Have you tried the test release > >>> (https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-05/msg00047.html)? > >>> > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I haven't followed this thread in all its gory details, but I recall > >> that only emacs-w32 was reported to have problems. I have noticed > >> random > >> crashes and weird messages without prior user actions in emacs-x11 > >> since > >> I moved from WinXP + Cygwin x86 to Win7 + Cygwin x86_64 a few weeks > >> ago. > >> None of these problems ever occurred on either FreeBSD (amd64, Emacs > >> 24) > >> or Debian (amd64, Emacs 23). I just thought I'd mention this because > >> the > >> problem does not seem to be limited to the -w32 build of Emacs. I've > >> preserved the odd messages on three separate occasions: > >> > >> Args out of range: [t 21335 39727 373923 0.5 > >> blink-cursor-timer-function > >> nil nil 100000], 4 > >> > >> Invalid function: #[(timer) "^H >^H > >>> ^[\211^203^Q^@Å^H \"^Q^K\203^Z^@Å^H > >> \"^R^L\206^_^@^K*\207" [timer timer-list timer-idle-list cell2 cell1 > >> delq] 4 2245674] > >> > >> timer-relative-time: Wrong type argument: vectorp, [t1 time high low > >> micro pico nil 3 0 2 ...] > >> > >> All of them indicate timer related problems as Max pointed out. I do > >> not > >> have meaningful backtraces of the crashes at this time because the > >> installed emacs-x11 seems to lack debug symbols. > > > > You have to install emacs-debuginfo in order to get the symbols. > > > > Thanks, I've installed it now just in case. Until now, no crashes or > weird messages with emacs-X11-24.3.90-1 yet... > > regards, > Markus >
Hi, I've been testing emacs-X11-24.3.90-1 for more than two weeks now, and this is what happened: - a few hours after I claimed that there were no problems with this version yet (see above), Emacs crashed again. - I used to start Emacs from gdb for about two weeks, hoping to catch it red-handed. No problems occurred - I reverted to starting Emacs as I had done for years (through startxwin), but I've set up the CYGWIN environment variable to create true core dumps. A couple of days later Emacs crashed again and left a core dump. I've sent that along with a problem description to bug-gnu-emacs AT gnu.org: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=17753 This basically means that the current test release is a major improvement although it did not eliminate crashes altogether. As I do not have any core dumps of the previous Emacs version, I can't even tell whether or not the same bugs are involved. regards, Markus -- Markus Hoenicka http://www.mhoenicka.de AQ score 38 -- 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
