From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38548 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Piper Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How to help debug numerous crashes of 21.4.4 on Windows? Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 09:35:22 -0700 Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010903093502.00b41b40@san-francisco.beasys.com> References: <86u1ylpe0a.fsf@earthlink.net> <86u1ylpe0a.fsf@earthlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174394 23107 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:26:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:26:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org, ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 29146 invoked from network); 3 Sep 2001 16:38:52 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO beamail.beasys.com) (63.96.163.102) by gnus.org with SMTP; 3 Sep 2001 16:38:52 -0000 Original-Received: from san-francisco.beasys.com (san-francisco.beasys.com [192.168.9.10]) by beamail.beasys.com (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA11114; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 09:38:20 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from shalom.bea.com (wsp001318wss.beasys.com [192.168.6.149]) by san-francisco.beasys.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA29037; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 09:40:03 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: andyp@san-francisco.beasys.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Original-To: Jody Klymak , dmkarr@earthlink.net (David M. Karr) In-Reply-To: <1ylpz61s.fsf@oce.orst.edu> Original-Lines: 30 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38548 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38548 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