Follow-up to bug report on Customize menu hang
I have a few additional comments on the bug report I submitted on
Tuesday about XEmacs hanging when trying to access the customize
menus.
1) The problem can be reproduced with -vanilla.
2) The hang occurs with the last message "Loading build"
3) I'd be curious to know if any other Cygwin users can demonstrate
the problem.
4) This would be minor with easy workarounds except that there is a
serious side effect. Once XEmacs is hung the only way to kill it
is with the Windows Task Manager. After killing XEmacs with the
pulldown menus still displayed, menus are displayed incorrectly in
XEmacs when it is restarted and in other applications as well. The
menu background is sometimes black except right around the text and
sometimes it is transparent. The only way I have been able to
clear up the problem is to restart the system.
5) There is no hang if customize is invoked as a command instead of
from the menu.
6) The hang can be prevented if build is loaded first.
I'm trying to track this one down but I am at a loss on how to
proceed. My luck with running the Cygwin version of gdb on XEmacs has
been limited. In any case the system is nearly locked up once XEmacs
hangs. XEmacs ignores signals once it is hung.
david