From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: aidalgol@amuri.net, 18438@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18438: 24.4.50; assertion failed in bidi.c
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 09:18:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5411A116.2010700@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5a4227d870d7696292bcf501f87a0f53@amuri.net>
On 9/11/2014 12:31 AM, aidalgol@amuri.net wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 22:09:08 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>
>> Please run Emacs under GDB, and when this happens again, produce a
>> full backtrace and post it here. I'd like to see if the symptoms are
>> similar to what Ken reported in bug #17817.
>
> I am unable to do this because Emacs hangs when run under GDB on opening
> a symbolic link. Emacs hangs with a message in the minibuffer
> indicating that it is loading a library that is on my load-path as a
> symbolic link; if I replace this symlink with a copy of the file it
> links to, Emacs hangs on loading the next library that is installed via
> a symlink. If there are no symlinks on load-path, it hangs where it
> would normally load my desktop file, which has files open via symlinks
> (i.e. there is a symlink to a directory in their path). If I run `gdb
> emacs`, gdb gives "Error creating process /usr/local/bin/emacs, (error
> 5)." when I type the `run` command, but it can run emacs if I specify
> the name of the binary to which `emacs` is a symlink
> (/usr/local/bin/emacs -> /usr/local/bin/emacs-24.4.50.exe). I am
> running GDB 7.8 from the Cygwin package.
>
> I'm surprised Ken did not run into this. Ken, which version of Cygwin
> and GDB were you running at the time?
I was running whatever was current at the time. But there is a bug in
GDB 7.8 that prevents you from using it to debug a GUI version of emacs.
See https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17247#c34. Until
this is fixed, you need to downgrade to the previous release of GDB.
Ken
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Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-09 21:41 bug#18438: 24.4.50; assertion failed in bidi.c aidalgol
2014-09-10 0:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-10 18:55 ` Aidan Gauland
2014-09-10 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-11 4:31 ` aidalgol
2014-09-11 13:18 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2014-09-12 1:51 ` aidalgol
2014-09-12 1:55 ` aidalgol
2014-09-12 6:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 7:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-16 1:04 ` aidalgol
2014-09-16 2:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-16 2:59 ` aidalgol
2014-09-16 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-16 22:42 ` aidalgol
2014-09-17 5:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-18 4:55 ` aidalgol
2014-09-18 4:59 ` aidalgol
2014-09-18 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-21 22:30 ` Ken Brown
2014-09-24 5:07 ` aidalgol
2014-09-24 14:06 ` Ken Brown
2014-09-24 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-24 16:40 ` Ken Brown
2014-09-24 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-28 23:03 ` aidalgol
2014-09-10 13:14 ` Ken Brown
2014-09-29 0:56 ` aidalgol
2014-09-29 6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-29 15:50 ` Ken Brown
2014-09-29 17:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-29 22:28 ` aidalgol
2014-09-30 15:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-30 16:09 ` Ken Brown
2014-09-30 16:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-30 23:06 ` aidalgol
2014-10-01 2:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-01 2:58 ` aidalgol
2014-10-01 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-01 21:56 ` aidalgol
2014-10-01 2:40 ` Ken Brown
2014-10-08 22:20 ` aidalgol
2014-10-09 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-10 2:21 ` aidalgol
2014-10-10 7:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-10 7:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-10 13:54 ` Ken Brown
2014-10-10 15:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-10 17:14 ` Ken Brown
2014-10-11 1:57 ` Ken Brown
2014-10-11 7:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-11 13:58 ` Ken Brown
2014-10-11 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-11 16:33 ` Ken Brown
2014-10-11 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-11 17:17 ` Ken Brown
2014-10-15 0:58 ` aidalgol
2014-10-15 5:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-15 19:29 ` aidalgol
2014-10-16 7:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-16 13:11 ` Ken Brown
2014-10-16 13:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-19 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-19 15:37 ` Ken Brown
2014-10-19 18:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-19 19:49 ` aidalgol
2014-10-19 20:20 ` aidalgol
2014-10-20 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-20 16:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-20 19:35 ` Ivan Shmakov
2014-10-20 19:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-20 20:02 ` Ivan Shmakov
2014-10-20 20:59 ` Ken Brown
2014-10-21 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-21 16:18 ` Ken Brown
2014-10-21 19:38 ` aidalgol
2014-10-21 21:12 ` Ken Brown
2014-10-21 21:58 ` aidalgol
2014-10-21 22:21 ` Ken Brown
2014-10-21 22:38 ` aidalgol
2014-10-22 4:16 ` aidalgol
2014-10-22 15:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-22 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-22 20:39 ` Ken Brown
2014-10-23 20:38 ` aidalgol
2014-10-23 21:54 ` aidalgol
2014-10-24 6:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-24 19:18 ` Ken Brown
2014-10-24 21:19 ` Ken Brown
2014-10-29 4:30 ` aidalgol
2014-10-29 12:15 ` Ken Brown
2014-10-29 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-26 15:37 ` bug#17817: " Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-12-26 15:43 ` Ken Brown
2014-10-29 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-23 4:15 ` aidalgol
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