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On 8/2/2012 12:28 PM, Filipp Gunbin wrote:
> Ken Brown writes:
>
> ...
>> Unfortunately, I'm finding that emacs is unstable:  The emacs window
>> (running under X) simply disappears after 12-24 hours.  This may not
>> have anything to do with the most recent changes.  I haven't yet tested
>> any earlier snapshots.
> ...
>
> Hi Ken,
>
> I observe Emacs crashes in the following scenario:
>
> - emacs -nw
> - run cygwin setup utility, click through it until it finishes (it does not matter whether
> any packages are installed or not)
> - continue with emacs (for example, type "C-x C-f C-g") - it will crash
>
> I don't know if it is related to the problem in this discussion, and
> probably it's not a good idea to update Cygwin while running Cygwin programs,
> but maybe it will give some hint.
>
> I'm currently on Cygwin 1.7.16, Windows 7 (maybe it started after I
> upgraded from Vista recently, but I'm not sure).

I can't reproduce this.  But you might want to see if it's fixed in the 
latest snapshot.  setup.exe writes to /etc, and Corinna has just fixed a 
bug involving stack corruption after /etc is modified.

Ken

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