[h-e-w] Re: gnuserv misbehavior in Emacs 21

[Oscar Fuentes]

"Uday S. Reddy" <address@hidden> writes:

> I am running NT Emacs 21.2 on Windows NT.
> 
> I have just noticed a strange behavior of gnuserv under this version.
> With (gnuserv-start) in the .emacs file, the first time you start an
> emacs process, gnuserv starts.  If you now start a second emacs
> process, the gnuserv-start in the .emacs file is supposed to exit
> without doing anything, since there is already a gnuserv process
> running.  But, it does not doing so.  It (or something started by it)
> is running in the background, and using up 100% of the CPU.  If I
> remove gnuserv-start in the init file, everything is normal.
> 
> Downloading the latest version of gnuserv didn't help.
> 
> I also have an older Emacs version (20.6) sitting on my machine.  When
> I tried it there, this behavior did not happen.  I.E. the second
> invocation of gnuserv-start immediately exited.
> 
> Has anybody else noticed this behavior?

Have you cygwin-mount.el on your .emacs? I've reported the same
problem to gnu.emacs.help and it was caused by that package.

Try running Emacs with the -q --no-site-file command line options and
see what happens.

-- 
Oscar