This is the mail archive of the cygwin mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: xemacs crashes with SIGSEGV after update


Siegmar Gross writes:
>
>>     > today I updated all packages of my 32-Bit Cygwin installation
>> (installed
>>     > on top of Windows 7). After that xemacs crashed if I tried to
>> open a
>>     > file. Therefore I reinstalled the older version
>> xemacs-21.4.23.1.
>>     > Unfortunately the older version crashes as well. I can start
>> xemacs
>>     > without command line arguments.
>>
>> Try with
>>
>> (setq progress-feedback-use-echo-area t)
>>
>> in your .emacs/.xemacs
>
> Great! Your advise solved the problem. I added the command to
> .xemacs/init.el and now everything works as before. Can you
> explain why this command is necessary now and what it does?
> Thank you very much for a short answer in advance.


There's a fix for this in the 21.4.24 sources.  Volker - is there any
chance for an updated package?

  - Vin


--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]