Re: emacs 23.0.60.1 built today (11th feb 2008) crashes under Vista

[Eric Lilja]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> Please run emacs under gdb to find where it crashes.

Does this help?

$ gdb emacs
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This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"...(no debugging symbols found)

(gdb) run
Starting program: /cygdrive/c/emacs-23/bin/emacs.exe
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/ntdll.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/kernel32.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/msvcrt.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/advapi32.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/rpcrt4.dll
Loaded symbols for 
/cygdrive/c/Windows/WinSxS/x86_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.6000.16386_none_5d07289e07e1d100/comctl32.d
ll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/gdi32.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/user32.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/shlwapi.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/comdlg32.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/shell32.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/mpr.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/ole32.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/winmm.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/oleaut32.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/oleacc.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/winspool.drv

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x77df986b in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x77df986b in ?? ()
#1  0x01080f6b in init_user_info ()
#2  0x01083754 in init_environment ()
#3  0x0100260e in main ()
(gdb)