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Re: Emacs problem after rebaseall: some progresses?



On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Harald Joerg wrote:

> Angelo Graziosi <Angelo.Graziosi@roma1.infn.it> writes:
> 
> > The problem is that after "rebaseall" Emacs does not works, it takes 
> > all the CPU and its window does not appear so that one can only kill
> > its process.
> >
> > After the new release of rebase-2.4-1, the problem remains 
> >
> >                            BUT
> >                            
> > this time reinstalling, with "setup", ONLY the
> > package libncurses7 (whose current release is 5.3-4), 
> > EMACS works again!
> >
> 
> Actually, I don't have an idea if this is a valid procedure.  And to
> be honest, at this moment I don't even care.
> 
> But today I ran into the same problem - and your trick just works for
> me, too.
> 
> Many many thanks for posting this workaround.  I guess it took you
> some hours to detect libncurses7 as a key component, but you certainly
> saved me the pain to try to re-install all cygwin.
> 


Even using the snapshots, the problem remains and every time one needs to
rebase all one must reinstall libncurses7-5.3-4 if one wants Emacs to
work.

In any case I am on the  alert to see what cause that.

Best regards,

    Angelo.


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