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: Re: Help debugging an Emacs crash Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 22:38:03 -0400 Message-ID: <16977.64011.29421.749458@spinky.blazemonger.com> References: <16977.30822.931471.679226@spinky.blazemonger.com> <01c5395a$Blat.v2.4$0356fec0@zahav.net.il> <16977.45374.253662.14732@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 1112668775 30020 80.91.229.2 (5 Apr 2005 02:39:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 02:39:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Daniel Barrett , bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 05 04:39:27 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DIdxd-0002v9-Mi for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2005 04:38:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DIdWS-0003DL-1D for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:10:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DIdWD-0003AF-WE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:10:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DIdW5-00035m-Pd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:10:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DIdW5-00035N-MU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:10:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [204.127.202.59] (helo=sccrmhc14.comcast.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DIdxC-0002zY-1m; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:38:10 -0400 Original-Received: from spinky.blazemonger.com (c-24-60-175-62.hsd1.ma.comcast.net[24.60.175.62]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc14) with ESMTP id <2005040502380101400dn7tne>; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 02:38:01 +0000 Original-Received: by spinky.blazemonger.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 1302B1525; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 22:38:03 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: eliz@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:11063 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:11063 On April 4, 2005, Daniel Barrett wrote: >On April 5, 2005, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>> I am experiencing emacs segmentation faults under X.... >>For starters, please run GDB on the core file and post here a >>traceback for these crashes. > >I'd be happy to, but there's no core file generated. Just a segfault. > >>Next, please read the file etc/DEBUG in the Emacs distribution which >>gives some tips on debugging Emacs. > >Thanks - I'll start running emacs under gdb and see what happens. Unfortunately it looks like SUSE's emacs is compiled without debugging symbols. Here's a stack trace of the crash... Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x403ba615 in bcopy () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x403ba615 in bcopy () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #1 0x080516f3 in ?? () #2 0x10fe5d1c in ?? () #3 0x10ffbdc4 in ?? () #4 0x000160a8 in ?? () #5 0x088215a8 in ?? () #6 0x088215fc in ?? () #7 0x000160a8 in ?? () #8 0x087b8258 in ?? () #9 0x11011e6c in ?? () #10 0x087ce300 in ?? () #11 0x10ffbdc4 in ?? () #12 0xbfffdf38 in ?? () #13 0x0812ab49 in re_search () Previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?) I imagine this isn't very helpful. I'll grab the sources, build my own Emacs, and see if the problem remains. -- Dan Barrett dbarrett@blazemonger.com