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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 23369@debbugs.gnu.org, fredrik@fornwall.net
Subject: bug#23369: 25.0.93; CANNOT_DUMP build fails if resizing terminal during startup in tty mode
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 20:20:00 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wpnjx933.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <po1t5rhuum.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:36:33 -0400)

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: fredrik@fornwall.net,  23369@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:36:33 -0400
> 
> It's ugly to (essentially) modify all uses of save-selected-window just
> because of one (?) problematic use in an edge case. I wonder if we can
> find and fix whatever code is calling it in this case. Presumably
> something window-related that happens during resizing.

I'd still like to see a full backtrace when the problem happens, both
C and Lisp level.

> Also, it seems like if CANNOT_DUMP builds encounter an error loading
> loadup.el, they go on to run the command-loop with only a partially
> loaded loadup, which leads to confusing error messages that have nothing
> to do with the real problem. Can they be made to abort instead?

How will aborting help diagnosing the problems?  IME, it tends to hide
evidence, not make it more clear.





  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-27 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-25  7:10 bug#23369: 25.0.93; CANNOT_DUMP build fails if resizing terminal during startup in tty mode Fredrik Fornwall
2016-04-25  7:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-25  9:43   ` Fredrik Fornwall
2016-04-25 10:01     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-27  0:53       ` Glenn Morris
2016-04-27  6:52         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-27 16:36           ` Glenn Morris
2016-04-27 17:20             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-04-27 18:48               ` Glenn Morris
2016-04-27 19:27                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-27 21:01                   ` Glenn Morris
2016-04-28  5:28                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-28 13:03                     ` Fredrik Fornwall
2016-04-28 13:14                     ` Eli Zaretskii

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