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RE: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so
- From: "KARR, DAVID" <dk068x at att dot com>
- To: Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>, "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:42:52 +0000
- Subject: RE: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so
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> -----Original Message-----
> Of Ken Brown
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 9:39 AM
> Subject: Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so
>
> On 4/14/2014 9:28 AM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> Of Ken Brown
> >> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 9:19 AM
> >> Subject: Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so
> >>
> >> On 4/13/2014 6:46 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> Of Ken Brown
> >>>> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 5:43 PM
> >>>> Subject: Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so
> >>>>
> >>>> On 4/13/2014 10:53 AM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
> >>>>> I recently installed 1.7.29 on a new Win7/64 laptop. Every day or
> so,
> >> I
> >>>> get a "fatal error" dialog from emacs-w32. It asks me if I want to
> >> debug
> >>>> it, but I'm not sure what info I could pull from gdb that would be
> >> useful.
> >>>>
> >>>> A gdb backtrace might or might not be helpful. I would start with
> >> other
> >>>> things first (see below).
> >>>>
> >>>>> Is this a known problem?
> >>>>
> >>>> No.
> >>>>
> >>>>> Is there any useful information I could provide?
> >>>>
> >>>> Since this is a new computer, my first suggestion would be to check
> the
> >>>> BLODA list (http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.bloda). If that
> >>>> doesn't help, please make a more detailed report, following the
> >>>> guidelines here:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> >>>
> >>> (Sigh. It died again while I was writing this note.)
> >>>
> >>> Ok. I have McAfee on this box. Note that we've had McAfee installed
> on
> >> all laptops here for quite a while, including my older Win32 box, which
> I
> >> didn't see this problem on.
> >>
> >> Are you sure there's nothing else? Windows Defender maybe?
> >
> > I looked through the BLODA list, and I believe that McAfee is the only
> one that I have installed.
>
> Windows Defender comes with Windows 7; have you disabled it?
I just checked, and it's turned off.
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