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[h-e-w] Re: Emacs 22.3 crashes on Vista immediately after start
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parozusa |
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[h-e-w] Re: Emacs 22.3 crashes on Vista immediately after start |
Date: |
Fri, 15 May 2009 13:26:16 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.93 (windows-nt) |
Gavril Bilev writes:
> Dear listmembers,
> I've been trying to migrate to the newest version of GNU Emacs - 22.3
> unsuccessfully for the last 4 days - it crashes on random intervals b/n 0 and
> 15 seconds after started all the time. I was a user of Xemacs, but now want to
> get Emacs to work...
> System - Vista SP1.
> I've followed all of the installation instructions, have downloaded the zipped
> binaries from more than one location, have used 2 different archival tools to
> unzip them, have set the HOME variable to pretty much everything, have run it
> with and without an .emacs file, have tried just about every option by running
> emacs.exe from the command prompt, even tried Vincent Goulet's bundle (http://
> vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/ressources/emacs/windows) and SAME PROBLEM. It just
> keeps on crashing on and on - with Vista's "GNU Emacs has stopped working...
> looking for a solution" crap.
> Please help, much appreciated! I'll run whatever tests/debuging stuff you need
> me to...
> Gavril
> PS More information if pertinent: the old Emacs 21.3.1 version works like a
> charm, no trouble with it. Also - idk if this is important, my Account User
> Control is turned off and I don't think my anti-virus software is causing the
> problem either. Are there any services that are necessary for emacs to run? I
> have a few of those disabled...
Download
Unzip
http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/emacs-23.0.93-bin-i386.zip
Execute
.../bin/runemacs.exe
I'm sure it will work.
Cheers
Martin
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