xemacs crashes with SIGSEGV after update

Fri Apr 10 06:09:00 GMT 2015

>>>>> Vin Shelton writes:

 > Siegmar Gross writes:
 >> 
 >>> > today I updated all packages of my 32-Bit Cygwin installation
 >>> (installed
 >>> > on top of Windows 7). After that xemacs crashed if I tried to
 >>> open a
 >>> > file. Therefore I reinstalled the older version
 >>> xemacs-21.4.23.1.
 >>> > Unfortunately the older version crashes as well. I can start
 >>> xemacs
 >>> > without command line arguments.
 >>> 
 >>> Try with
 >>> 
 >>> (setq progress-feedback-use-echo-area t)
 >>> 
 >>> in your .emacs/.xemacs
 >> 
 >> Great! Your advise solved the problem. I added the command to
 >> .xemacs/init.el and now everything works as before. Can you
 >> explain why this command is necessary now and what it does?
 >> Thank you very much for a short answer in advance.
 > There's a fix for this in the 21.4.24 sources. Volker - is there any
 > chance for an updated package?
Probably in 2 weeks from now...no time 
 > - Vin
Ciao
 Volker
 
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