Re: emacs hangs windows 2000 pro

[John Sands]

Thanks for the info. I've disabled Norton Antivirus and I've been working
for a few hours without a problem. I'll turn it on again tomorrow to see if
the bug resurfaces. I'll report here if it happens again, hopefully with
more info.


"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> wrote in message
557-Sat01Dec2001091114+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il">news:557-Sat01Dec2001091114+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il...
> > From: "John Sands" <WonkoWatson2@hotmail.com>
> > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> > Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 03:14:13 GMT
> >
> > I've just started using emacs (21.1.1) under Windows 2000 professional.
> > Twice today it has made the machine emit continous loud beeps and hang
> > completely. The first time it was bringing up help info. The second time
it
> > was loading xslide for an xsl file. It's a real pain to turn off the
power
> > and then wonder how long it will stay up. Any suggestions on how I can
get
> > some stability here?
>
> Emacs 21 is very stable for me on W2K.  So please try to gather a bit
> more info about these problems, and report them here.  For example,
> can you run Emacs under a debugger and find out where does it get
> stuck?  Typing C-g or C-BREAK several times might also yield something
> interesting, maybe even allow you to recover without rebooting.
>
> Do you have some antivirus software installed on that machine?  If
> so, could you please try to disable it or switch it to a less
> aggressive mode, and see if that helps?
>