emacs crash

emacs crash

[joseph]

To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: emacs crash
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In GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-dell-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2003-09-02 on jtpc840
configured using `configure  i386-dell-linux-gnu --prefix=/home/joseph/gnu/emacs-21.3
--exec-prefix=/home/joseph/gnu/emacs-21.3/linux24 --with-x-toolkit=athena'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: C
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

22 Apr 2005

create a file with the following octal dump (i.e., od -c file) in emacs 21.3.1:


0000000   h   e   l   l   o 033   4 033   S 001   h   e   l   l   o  \n
0000020

These contents are "hello(esc)4(esc)S(ctrl-A)hello\n".  I type them here
in representational form rather than the exact form to avoid the potential 
problem of your emacs version crashing on reading this bug message and being
unable to decipher it.

When I read this very simple file with emacs version 21.3.1, the message
Fatal error (6).Aborted
appears and the emacs process aborts.  It will not read this file.  Interestingly,
emacs 21.3.1 will create this file and write it out.  Upon deleting the corresponding
buffer and re-reading the file, it crashes.  This happens every time.

Version 20.4.1 of emacs does not exhibit this problem.  It creates the test file,
writes it out, and re-reads it with no difficulty after deleting the corresponding
buffer.  Some problem has been introduced in the newer version leading to this
crash phenomenon.




Recent input:
C-S-n C-S-n C-S-n C-S-n C-S-n C-S-n C-S-n C-S-n C-S-n 
C-S-n C-S-n <return> <next> <next> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <up> <up> 
<return> C-S-n C-S-n C-S-n C-S-n C-S-n C-S-n C-S-n 
C-S-n C-S-n C-S-n C-S-n C-S-n C-S-n C-S-n C-S-n C-S-n 
C-S-n C-S-n C-S-n C-S-n C-S-n C-S-n C-S-n <return> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <emacs-version> 
<next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <prior> <prior> 
<prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <escape> x 
r e p o SPC r SPC SPC SPC <return>

Recent messages:
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Composing main Info directory...
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GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-dell-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2003-09-02 on jtpc840
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Joseph Patterson
VLSI Design Tools
P.O. Box 378
W. Boxford, MA 01885-0378
(978)352-7976
joseph@vlsidesigntools.com

Re: emacs crash

[Richard Stallman]

This did not fail for me in the latest development Emacs from
CVS on savannah.gnu.org.

Thanks for reporting it.

emacs crash

[Philip B Giangarra]

This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation,
not to your local site managers!
Please write in English, because the Emacs maintainers do not have
translators to read other languages for them.

Your bug report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list,
and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group.

In GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2002-05-28 on tx30sws004
configured using `configure  --prefix=/_TOOLS_/dist/gnu-emacs-21.1/sparc-sun-solaris2.8 --with-tiff'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: en_US.ISO8859-1
  value of $LC_CTYPE: en_US.ISO8859-1
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: C
  value of $LC_MONETARY: en_US.ISO8859-1
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_US.ISO8859-1
  value of $LC_TIME: en_US.ISO8859-1
  value of $LANG: en_US.ISO8859-1
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I closed a frame and buffer, and the entire emacs sessions crashed with the following error message:

X protocol error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) on protocol request 69
 
This happens many times per week (I use emacs extensively every day).

Thank you,

Philip Giangarra
Freescale
781-932-6021
508-294-7066

Philip.Giangarra@freescale.com



Recent input:
<help-echo> <switch-frame> <prior> <switch-frame> <help-echo> 
<switch-frame> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> 
<S-down-mouse-3> <S-mouse-3> <pause> C-c C-a <pause> 
<switch-frame> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <S-down-mouse-3> 
<S-mouse-3> <pause> C-c C-a <switch-frame> <switch-frame> 
<switch-frame> <S-down-mouse-3> <S-mouse-3> <switch-frame> 
<switch-frame> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> 
<switch-frame> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<menu-bar> <help-menu> <emacs-problems> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> 
<help-echo> C-s p i x m a p <home> C-s c r a s h <help-echo> 
<help-echo> C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s 
C-s C-s C-s <switch-frame> <switch-frame> C-s C-s C-s 
C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <menu-bar> <buffer> "lpg013*shell*<2>" 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> 
<help-menu> <report-emacs-bug>

Recent messages:
Fontifying spu_ch.v... (regexps............)
Updating AUTOs...done (no changes)
/proj/.ppc_draco8_design_01/design_01/d8roc/u/philg/design/SPU/blocks/spu_ch/rtl_v/spu_ch_get_fsm.v and /proj/.ppc_draco8_design_01/design_01/d8roc/u/philg/design/SPU/blocks/state_machines/channel_state_machines/hdl/spu_ch_get_fsm.v are the same file
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Type C-h for help, h for commands, q to quit.
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emacs crash

[Donald Zoch]

We think we've experienced a bug in emacs
It dies with a segmentation fault. 

GNU Emacs 21.4.1
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of Emacs
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.

Backtrace:

#0  0x40294fd1 in kill () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#1  0x080decb2 in fatal_error_signal (sig=26106) at emacs.c:354
#2  <signal handler called>
#3  0x0804fd50 in increment_row_positions (row=0x85fdd10, delta=1, delta_bytes=4) at dispnew.c:1188
#4  0x0804fdef in increment_matrix_positions (matrix=0x84df150, start=65, end=65, delta=1, 
    delta_bytes=1) at dispnew.c:927
#5  0x0806c3eb in try_window_id (w=0x8498798) at xdisp.c:11883
#6  0x080711a0 in redisplay_window (window=1212778392, just_this_one_p=1) at xdisp.c:10260
#7  0x080736b1 in redisplay_internal (preserve_echo_area=4) at xdisp.c:8910
#8  0x080e8ceb in read_char (commandflag=1, nmaps=2, maps=0xffffaa10, prev_event=405378092, 
    used_mouse_menu=0xffffaa68) at keyboard.c:2299
#9  0x080ea551 in read_key_sequence (keybuf=0xffffaba0, bufsize=30, prompt=405378092, 
    dont_downcase_last=0, can_return_switch_frame=1, fix_current_buffer=1) at keyboard.c:8209
#10 0x080ec3eb in command_loop_1 () at keyboard.c:1451
#11 0x0813d39a in internal_condition_case (bfun=0x80ec1e0 <command_loop_1>, handlers=405474436, 
    hfun=0x80e5440 <cmd_error>) at eval.c:1267
#12 0x080e0d5e in command_loop_2 () at keyboard.c:1245
#13 0x0813d2a9 in internal_catch (tag=4, func=0x80e0d30 <command_loop_2>, arg=405378092)
    at eval.c:1030
#14 0x080e0b2e in command_loop () at keyboard.c:1224
#15 0x080e0bd9 in recursive_edit_1 () at keyboard.c:950
#16 0x080e0d0e in Frecursive_edit () at keyboard.c:1006
#17 0x080dff09 in main (argc=2, argv=0xffffb254, envp=0xffffb260) at emacs.c:1547


Detail from our user on what he was doing when it crashed:

Here's the detail that I have:
Similar to the last failure I had 2 files open in buffers (size:401204B
& 995B)
with the emacs panel split in 2 vertically and a separate buffer in each.
The 401204B file was in the left pane, 995B file in the right pane.
I had just copy/pasted the 995B into the 2nd file which hadn't yet been
saved.
I left clicked the mouse to place the cursor in the left window
and the session disappeared.

I think that this time was slightly different than the last time it failed.
Last time I wasn't doing copy/paste, but was typing text,
I left clicked and then when I typed the 1st character the session
disappeared.
I think that I didn't hit a character this time.


Thanks for any help you can provide.

Donald
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Donald Zoch                    
donald.zoch@amd.com