From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Zdzislaw Meglicki Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#17688: 24.3.90; segmentation fault in deselect_palette Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:58:00 -0400 Message-ID: <7z61kf73hz.fsf@iu.edu> References: <7z1tv4vik0.fsf@iu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1401983966 24554 80.91.229.3 (5 Jun 2014 15:59:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 15:59:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 17688@debbugs.gnu.org To: Ken Brown Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 05 17:59:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wsa4V-0004Ms-68 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 17:59:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42221 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wsa4U-0004r7-Qk for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:59:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43524) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wsa4L-0004pj-HD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:59:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wsa4E-0006LU-Pt for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:59:09 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:47039) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wsa4E-0006LP-MA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:59:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Wsa4E-0001hh-8e for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:59:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Zdzislaw Meglicki Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 15:59:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 17688 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 17688-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B17688.14019838946461 (code B ref 17688); Thu, 05 Jun 2014 15:59:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 17688) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Jun 2014 15:58:14 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45916 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Wsa3N-0001g2-Nu for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:58:14 -0400 Original-Received: from perth.ovpit.indiana.edu ([156.56.178.13]:49315) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Wsa3H-0001fk-Cq for 17688@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:58:07 -0400 Original-Received: from crawley (140-182-74-52.ssl-vpn.indiana.edu [140.182.74.52]) by perth.ovpit.indiana.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D139D164085; Thu, 5 Jun 2014 11:57:57 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <53908D20.701@cornell.edu> (message from Ken Brown on Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:30:40 -0400) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:90060 Archived-At: > But you did say you get the same backtrace involving > deselect_palette twice. Yes, twice the same crash, separated by a day or so. > Did it happen during copying and pasting between Emacs and Firefox > both times? Maybe you could experiment with that and see if you > can find a reliable way to produce the crash. You see, I copy and paste... er... all the time (call it "creative cheating"...) I maintain a data base, on another machine, it's really a Plone-4.2 instance, into which I paste articles collected from browsing the web. Eventually, this ends up begin a copy from emacs and a paste into Firefox. I do it all the time and it works without a glitch *almost* all the time. The crashes are sporadic, which is why it's so hard to diagnose the problem. I did suspect the clock, also I did suspect mail lookup. I use rmail to read mail, which is placed in the local spooler by fetchmail, which gets it from Google. Sometimes, I saw crashes, just while editing text in emacs, no external copy/paste, perhaps other than meta-w, ctrl-y (it still goes through Windows, in emacs-w32, mind you, because it can be pasted onto other docs). What if there is some racing condition on looking up the mail spool file, racing between fetchmail and emacs' rmail, that crashes emacs? I'll try the .emacs simplifications suggested. Incidentally, rmail, there's another bug there, that showed up only in the latest version of emacs, the one I got from you, 24.3.90.1. When I am in the rmail-summary and try to get out of it by typing "q", I get a message that the pointer does not point to the right window. Something gets screwed up there. It worked in the earlier versions. Cheers, Gustav -- Zdzislaw (Gustav) Meglicki, Office of the Vice President for Information Technology, Indiana University, 2709 E. 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA, http://perth.ovpit.indiana.edu/gustav, Ph: 812-856-5597 (o), 812-345-3284 (m), Skype: zdzislaw.meglicki