Re: emacs 24.3.50 freezing in unusable state.

[Peter Dyballa]

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Am 28.09.2013 um 10:53 schrieb Sharon Kimble:

> How do I rescue it please so that I can use it again please?

It /might/ be possible to attach a debugger to it and read out some data… But 
when it's the first launch and it instantly became unusable, then read below!

> Or should I report it upstream somewhere as a bug? 

This might be a "normal" state of a momentarily unusable state of the GNU Emacs 
software. It can also be that your init file(s) are provoking the error. 
Launching it with -q or -Q might render it usable!

If not, then kill it and make distclean, update again, configure again, compile 
again, and launch GNU Emacs again. You can also play with configure options, 
use a different compiler or different compiler options. If you develop GNU 
Emacs 24.3.50 in your GNU Emacs 23(.4?), you will have a readable log from the 
configure step (in the *compilation* buffer from M-x compile RET ./configure … 
RET) and possibly find findings which configure should not have found. These 
can cause the described failure…

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Greetings

  Pete

There's something the technicians need to learn from the artists. If it isn't 
aesthetically pleasing, it's probably wrong.

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