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

[Andy Piper <andyp@bea.com>]

At 01:33 PM 9/2/01 -0700, Jody Klymak wrote:
>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.

The reasons for this are known, we just need to fix it :)

andy