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I'm running emacs 23.2.1 on Cygwin on Windows 7. Yesterday, emacs-X11 was working fine; now it refuses to launch, instead exiting instantly with the error message "Arithmetic error". Running emacs-X11 -Q
gives the same error. The exit status according to bash is 255, but it's 65280 (0xff00) according to Process Monitor.
I can run emacs-X11 --version
and emacs-X11 --help
just fine, but any attempt to open a window fails. I can also run emacs in batch mode (e.g. emacs-X11 -batch -f batch-byte-compile *.el
).
Running the non-X11 version of emacs (emacs-nox
, or equivalently DISPLAY= emacs
; with DISPLAY
set :0.0
as I have by default, emacs
is equivalent to emacs-X11
) also runs fine.
I can also run other X11 programs (e.g. xlogo
) just fine.
Does anyone have any idea what might cause this or how I can fix it?
I've had this problem intermittently as well on my work machine. Rebooting usually resolved it temporarily. – JohnMcG – 2010-10-21T16:51:16.543