Subject: Re: bug#5769: 23.1; Emacs crash on Windows 7 right after startup

From: Jason Rumney <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:15:04 +0800

Tamas Czinege <[email-masked]> writes:

> On launching Emacs 23.1.0 on Windows 7 32bit (using the official build), Emacs
> crashes right after displaying the Emacs window. Using
> a debugger, I got the following information:
>
> Unhandled exception at 0x0109cf0d in emacs.exe: 0xC0000005: Access
> violation writing location 0x0242fffc.
>
> Note that the problem can be temporarily worked around by adding
> the following line to my .emacs:
>
> (setq inhibit-splash-screen t)
>
> or just invoking Emacs with --no-splash. That allows emacs
> starting up, but it still crashes in a minute or so, apparently
> completely randomly.

Do you have Cygwin directories in your PATH? It could be a result of
incompatible image libraries.