From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38521 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jody Klymak Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How to help debug numerous crashes of 21.4.4 on Windows? Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 13:33:35 -0700 Organization: Ocean Mixing Group, Oregon State U. Message-ID: <1ylpz61s.fsf@oce.orst.edu> References: <86u1ylpe0a.fsf@earthlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174371 22975 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:26:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:26:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org, ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 10108 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2001 20:33:52 -0000 Original-Received: from dnsman.oce.orst.edu (128.193.64.33) by gnus.org with SMTP; 2 Sep 2001 20:33:52 -0000 Original-Received: from C1699372-A.mail.oce.orst.edu (c1699372-a.crvlls1.or.home.com [65.12.163.179]) by dnsman.oce.orst.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA05461; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 13:33:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: dmkarr@earthlink.net (David M. Karr) In-Reply-To: <86u1ylpe0a.fsf@earthlink.net> (dmkarr@earthlink.net's message of "02 Sep 2001 12:51:49 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.4 (Academic Rigor) Original-Lines: 51 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38521 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38521 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 -- Jody M. Klymak mailto:jklymak@oce.orst.edu College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sicences Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331