Re: How to help debug numerous crashes of 21.4.4 on Windows?

[Jody Klymak <jklymak@OCE.ORST.EDU>]

dmkarr@earthlink.net (David M. Karr) writes:

> I have Cygwin-XEmacs 21.4.4 installed on my win2k system.  Every couple of
> days, it crashes at random times, usually while doing things in GNUS.  Just
> before it goes away, I see a DOS window come up and print something, but it
> goes away before I can read it.  Just now, it happened again, and I guess it
> had to do some swapping right after the DOS window came up, so I was able to
> read the message, which said something like: "Windows procedure called during
> GC?".

Hello David,

Just so you don't feel that you are going insane, I get similar
behaviour on my win2k machine, but using the native build.

XEmacs 21.4 (patch 3) "Academic Rigor" (win32) of Thu May 17 2001 on
SHALOM

gnus version ognus-0.04, though it does in on ognus-0.03 and gnus-5.8.8
as well.  

XEmacs sometimes crashes when entering a group that is not on my
machine for the first time (nnimap groups in my case), but not when
entering groups that are on my machine (i.e. nndiary, nndraft).  So
I'm guessing it is a difficulty in calling external processes (maybe
IMAP?).  Note that by "first time" I mean the first time entering
*any* group not on my machine.

As you say, it is intermittent.  Starting and stopping Xemacs a few
times makes it go away.  Some days its worse than others.  

If it does not crash on the first group entered, it continues to work
until I exit gnus.  But a new gnus session either works or it doesn't.
If it doesn't I need to restart Xemacs until I get one that works.

Umm, I didn't check if nntp groups fail or not.  

Rebooting does not seem to help.

By "crash", I mean the behaviour you describe above.  An error window
pops up, a DOS console with a bunch of debugging messages pops up.
The XEmacs window disappears.

I submitted a bug report about this a month or so ago.

Cheers,  Jody 

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Jody M. Klymak               mailto:jklymak@oce.orst.edu
College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sicences
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331