From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Layer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: huge files in ~/.emacs.d/auto-save-list/ Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 12:33:59 -0700 Message-ID: <18578.1179948839@gemini.franz.com> References: <17763.1179779953@gemini.franz.com> <20566.1179846367@gemini.franz.com> <9829.1179876386@gemini.franz.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179948857 18236 80.91.229.12 (23 May 2007 19:34:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 19:34:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 23 21:34:09 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hqwb2-0005YY-Ju for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 21:34:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hqwb4-00043g-GF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 15:34:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hqwb2-00043D-Ip for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 15:34:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hqwb0-00042Z-5M for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 15:34:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hqwb0-00042T-21 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 15:34:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fw1.franz.com ([206.169.112.54] helo=gemini.franz.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hqwav-0001u5-6t; Wed, 23 May 2007 15:34:01 -0400 Original-Received: from gemini.franz.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gemini.franz.com (8.13.8/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l4NJXxmv018579; Wed, 23 May 2007 12:33:59 -0700 In-reply-to: Comments: In-reply-to Richard Stallman message dated "Wed, 23 May 2007 14:56:41 -0400." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0.3; nmh 1.1; GNU Emacs 22.0.96 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:15742 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: >> >> I wonder, is the file ALL junk after a certain point? >> >> Or is the junk inserted in the middle? >> >> I think I saw occasional lines that looked ok, but they were few and >> far between the junk. >> >> This is very important! If junk is followed by valid lines, >> that means the junk was output from inside the function that produces >> the intended output. >> >> So please check this carefully. Are any of those files on backups? I found a couple of bad files at home. One is 1mb, the other 17mb. I use 21.4.1 on Linux (FC6) there. There are definite good lines interspersed in between the junk. And often the good lines do not start at the beginning of a line--I had to search for common pathnames to find them. Interestingly, some of the junk is from my +inbox (I use MH-E 8.0.3) and sometimes the good lines near the +inbox junk are pathnames in my inbox directory. Other times it's just binary junk. >> I'm going to run for a while to see if the problem reoccurs with emacs >> 22. If it does, I'll add the following change and test it. >> >> Someone pointed out that that patch has problems; please don't try it >> as written. Understood.