bug#16570: 24.2; emacs ediff-directories segmentation fault

bug#16570: 24.2; emacs ediff-directories segmentation fault

[S. Gimeno Garcia]

Hi,

During a ediff-directories session, comparing subdirectories
recursively, and after some successfully "ediff" of files in the
directories, emacs suddenly crashes with a segmentation fault.

This behavior occurred often lately, but unfortunately I haven't
succeeded to reproduce the crash in a controlled way to provide
more detailed information.

Best regards,
Sebastian


In GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.4)
of 2012-10-10 on build20
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation

bug#16570: 24.2; emacs ediff-directories segmentation fault

[Glenn Morris]

"S. Gimeno Garcia" wrote:

> In GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.4)
> of 2012-10-10 on build20

Does SUSE provide a debug package for Emacs, or can you build Emacs yourself?
If the latter, please fetch the 24.3 (note not 24.2) sources, configure
emacs using

CFLAGS="-O0 -g3" ./configure [...]
make

cd src
# You may need to modify "auto-load safe-path" in ~/.gdbinit - see
# etc/DEBUG in the Emacs sources.
gdb ./emacs
run

and if/when it crashes, send the result of "bt full" here.

Without a backtrace, or reproducible crash recipe, nothing can be done.

Thanks.

bug#16570: 24.2; emacs ediff-directories segmentation fault

[S. Gimeno Garcia]

Hi,

Thanks for the rapid response!

Actually, I cannot reproduce the error again. Between last friday and 
yesterday, the emacs crash happened about 4 or 5 times, always during a 
ediff-directories session.
However, I cannot  reproduce in a controlled way the conditions that 
lead to the crash, so I cannot send you any backtrace, or reproducible 
crash recipe :(
If I find a way to do it, I'll come back to you.

Cheers,
Sebastian

On 01/27/2014 06:31 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> "S. Gimeno Garcia" wrote:
>
>> In GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.4)
>> of 2012-10-10 on build20
> Does SUSE provide a debug package for Emacs, or can you build Emacs yourself?
> If the latter, please fetch the 24.3 (note not 24.2) sources, configure
> emacs using
>
> CFLAGS="-O0 -g3" ./configure [...]
> make
>
> cd src
> # You may need to modify "auto-load safe-path" in ~/.gdbinit - see
> # etc/DEBUG in the Emacs sources.
> gdb ./emacs
> run
>
> and if/when it crashes, send the result of "bt full" here.
>
> Without a backtrace, or reproducible crash recipe, nothing can be done.
>
> Thanks.
>

bug#16570: 24.2; emacs ediff-directories segmentation fault

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

"S. Gimeno Garcia" <sebastian.gimenogarcia@dlr.de> writes:

> Actually, I cannot reproduce the error again. Between last friday and
> yesterday, the emacs crash happened about 4 or 5 times, always during
> a ediff-directories session.
> However, I cannot  reproduce in a controlled way the conditions that
> lead to the crash, so I cannot send you any backtrace, or reproducible
> crash recipe :(
> If I find a way to do it, I'll come back to you.

More information was requested, but no response was given within a few
months, so I'm closing this bug report.  If the problem still exists,
please reopen this bug report.

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