Thanks Ken,
I will check all the init.el statement on the various instances and
see what I come up with ...
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From: Ken Brown <kbr...@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc:
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 15:35:57 -0500
Subject: Re: 'list-packages function in Emacs 24.5.2 causes core dump
On 12/4/2015 6:37 AM, Matthew Eichler wrote:
> Thanks Ken.
>
> Running emacs with the -Q switch has shown me that this is an ELisp
> problem with my init.el. This is a problem on Cygwin but not on
> ArchLinux (I synchronize this file accross all my Unix instances
> including VM's).
>
> The problem is this section, where, if I comment out adding the
> Marmalade repository to the package manger, then 'list-packages works
> oké, but of course, then I do not access all the repositories I want
> when I use the packaging system:
>
> (require 'package)
> (add-to-list 'package-archives
> '("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/";) t)
> ;; (add-to-list 'package-archives
> ;; '("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/";) t)
> (package-initialize)
>
> (defvar my-packages '(icicles
> clojure-mode
> cider
> magit
> rubocop
> rspec-mode
> el-spec
> feature-mode
> graphene
> color-theme
> password-generator
> dockerfile-mode))
>
> (dolist (p my-packages)
> (when (not (package-installed-p p))
> (package-install p)))
> (global-set-key (kbd "<f4>") 'list-packages)
Sorry, I still can't reproduce the problem. I created a .emacs file
just containing the code you posted:
$ cat .emacs
(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/";) t)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/";) t)
(package-initialize)
(defvar my-packages
'(icicles
clojure-mode
cider
magit
rubocop
rspec-mode
el-spec
feature-mode
graphene
color-theme
password-generator
dockerfile-mode))
(dolist (p my-packages)
(when (not (package-installed-p p))
(package-install p)))
I then started emacs and ran 'M-x list-packages' without a problem.
Are you sure there's nothing else in your various initialization files
that could be interfering with this? Don't forget about default.el,
site-start.el, and .Xresources. ('emacs -Q' excludes all of these.)
> I'm attaching the cygcheck.out file per instructions.
Thanks. Nothing in it jumps out at me as problematic.
Ken
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