Subject: bug#12579: 24.1; Emacs 24.1 / 24.2 (daily) crashes

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:39:33 +0200

> From: "Fabrice Niessen" <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked], [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:02:20 +0200
> 
> The (translated) title of the dialog box is: "Windows Cannot End This
> Program". And the program is "Bash".

This may well be the reason for Emacs hanging.  Next time Emacs hangs,
can you look in the Task manager or some equivalent program for such a
stray Bash which is a sub-process of Emacs, and if you find one, kill
it forcibly from the Task manager, and see if Emacs then becomes
responsive again?