Re: 'list-packages function in Emacs 24.5.2 causes core dump

2015-12-08 Thread Matthew Eichler
Thanks Ken, I will check all the init.el statement on the various instances and see what I come up with ... -- Forwarded message -- From: Ken Brown 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

Re: 'list-packages function in Emacs 24.5.2 causes core dump

2015-12-04 Thread Ken Brown
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 sec

Re: 'list-packages function in Emacs 24.5.2 causes core dump

2015-12-04 Thread Matthew Eichler
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 Marmal

Re: 'list-packages function in Emacs 24.5.2 causes core dump

2015-12-03 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/3/2015 4:35 AM, Matthew Eichler wrote: I'm getting a core dump from the latest Emacs 24.5.2 when I run the 'list-packages function (package manager for sites like ELPA and MELPA http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_package_system.html) It works fine for me. Please give a complete recipe for

'list-packages function in Emacs 24.5.2 causes core dump

2015-12-03 Thread Matthew Eichler
I'm getting a core dump from the latest Emacs 24.5.2 when I run the 'list-packages function (package manager for sites like ELPA and MELPA http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_package_system.html) I think the offending code is here: /usr/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el.gz /usr/share/emacs/