bug#5032: Emacs crashes when on a network drive

[andy . ling]

I have recently updated to emacs 23.1.1 from emacs 21.3 and I'm finding it 
keeps crashing.

I am running under Window XP. I have the emacs binaries on a network drive
and I suspect it crashes if there is a problem talking to the network 
drive.

The easiest way to get it to crash is to hibernate the PC with emacs
running. When I restore from hibernate emacs crashes.

I had been running 21.3 like this for some years without a problem. So
this is something new to 23. I seem to remember a similar problem many
years ago which was fixed by changing a compile flag.

Regards

Andy Ling


In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2009-07-30 on SOFT-MJASON
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.4)'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENG
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: C++/la

Minor modes in effect:
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  partial-completion-mode: t
  which-function-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  abbrev-mode: t

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