From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Barrett Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Help debugging an Emacs crash Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 13:24:54 -0400 Message-ID: <16977.30822.931471.679226@spinky.blazemonger.com> Reply-To: Daniel Barrett NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112642730 10967 80.91.229.2 (4 Apr 2005 19:25:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 19:25:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Daniel Barrett Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 04 21:25:26 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DIXCA-00047K-MQ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 21:25:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DIWkv-00047K-1P for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 14:57:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DIVL2-0006mO-KI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 13:26:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DIVL1-0006lj-H3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 13:26:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DIVL1-0006lf-Ci for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 13:26:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [204.127.198.39] (helo=rwcrmhc13.comcast.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DIVKY-0000Je-Gg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 13:25:42 -0400 Original-Received: from spinky.blazemonger.com (c-24-60-175-62.hsd1.ma.comcast.net[24.60.175.62]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20050404172454015001ahd9e>; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 17:24:58 +0000 Original-Received: by spinky.blazemonger.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id E75991524; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 13:24:54 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.3.1 X-DJB-Valid: Yes X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:11054 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:11054 I am experiencing emacs segmentation faults under X. They occur at random times, but always at the moment I press a key. What is the best way to debug this kind of problem? I would be happy to enable debugging in some way, and send you any useful information. The crashes occur only within Kyle Jones's Emacs mail reader package "VM". However, VM should not be able to crash emacs, so there must be an underlying emacs or X bug. The crashes never occur if I've run "emacs -nw" in an xterm. Only after running "emacs &" to open an Emacs X window. Symptoms: Use VM for a while. At some point when I press a key, the X window closes and emacs crashes with a segmentation fault error. No core dump. System: Suse Linux 9.1 on Pentium 4 with 2 GB RAM. Suse kernel 2.6.5-7.145-smp #1 SMP. emacs-version: GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i586-suse-linux, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2004-04-05 on gray -- Dan Barrett dbarrett@blazemonger.com