On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Ken Brown <kbr...@cornell.edu> wrote: > > On 8/1/2016 5:16 PM, Brian Kuhn wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks for the response. Same result with 'emacs -Q' as well, i'm afraid. >>> >>> >>> >>> Then maybe an strace will help. Please give the following command: >>> >>> strace -o strace.out /usr/bin/emacs-nox.exe -Q >> >> >> This is interseting. >> >> $ strace -o strace.out /usr/bin/emacs-nox.exe -Q >> Segmentation fault > > > Is it emacs that's crashing or strace? You should be able to tell by looking > for a *.stackdump file in the current directory.
I will have to look when I get back to work. > > If it's emacs, can you try running it under gdb to see if you can get a > backtrace? (You would have to install gdb and emacs-debuginfo.) Don't mind at all. I'll have to do that when I get back to work. > > My best guess at this point is that your problem is caused by > https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.bloda . > It would not surprise me to discover that the problem was *something* installed by the, ahem, sheriffs in the night hours. I'll have to compare the lists. > Ken > > P.S. I'm going on vacation tomorrow and will have limited time to help you > over the next couple weeks. > Enjoy! Please don't even try then :) For grins, I installed cygwin on my home PC just now. And everything works swimmingly well. Also Win 10 PRO system (but yes, different motherboard, different video cards, no corporate Active Directory). Brian -- 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
