Re: [h-e-w] Emacs 22.3 crashes on Vista immediately after start

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Gavril Bilev <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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...


Emacs 23.1 is in pretest. Can you please try that instead?