From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13546: 24.2.92; Error(s) when sending emails Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:16:44 +0200 Message-ID: <83zjzvhwgj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86ehh9mx93.fsf@somewhere.org> <86libhfj7x.fsf@somewhere.org> <86ham5ffc5.fsf@somewhere.org> <861ud9gsh9.fsf@somewhere.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1359274613 1678 80.91.229.3 (27 Jan 2013 08:16:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 08:16:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 13546@debbugs.gnu.org To: Sebastien Vauban Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 27 09:17:12 2013 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 1TzNQN-0007Mc-1w for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:17:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32803 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TzNQ5-0003J2-5q for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 03:16:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43348) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TzNQ1-0003Im-TU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 03:16:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TzNPv-0003yV-NG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 03:16:49 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:45525) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TzNPv-0003yN-KO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 03:16:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TzNQD-0003U2-LM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 03:17:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 08:17:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 13546 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 13546-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B13546.135927461613368 (code B ref 13546); Sun, 27 Jan 2013 08:17:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13546) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Jan 2013 08:16:56 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50989 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TzNQ7-0003TZ-PN for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 03:16:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:57140) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TzNQ4-0003TL-86 for 13546@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 03:16:53 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MH900E00YXN2Q00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for 13546@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:16:32 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MH900DRNYZJFA90@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:16:32 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <861ud9gsh9.fsf@somewhere.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.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:70368 Archived-At: > From: "Sebastien Vauban" > Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:03:30 +0100 > > > What I'd like is for you to step with a debugger through the affected > > code and see what is going on there. > > You mean with gdb, like I do when Emacs is hanging or crashing? Yes. > > But since your cannot reproduce this at will, it doesn't seem to be > > possible... > > But I'm sure it will come back[1], and that will happen, can you tell me what I > should type in the GDB window? OK. So please attach GDB to Emacs _before_ the problem happens, and set a breakpoint like this: (gdb) break fileio.c:4913 (gdb) continue The breakpoint will be on this line in fileio.c: if (! ok) error ("IO error writing %s: %s", SDATA (filename), <<<<<<<<< emacs_strerror (save_errno)); Then do whatever it takes to reproduce the problem. When it happens again, this breakpoint should break. Then type the following GDB commands: (gdb) p desc (gdb) p/x fd_info[N].flags where N is the value of 'desc' as displayed by "p desc". That's assuming that value is non-negative; if it is negative, the second command is not going to display anything useful. Meanwhile, I installed a couple of small changes that may or may not solve this problem, so please be sure to try the next pretest binary when it becomes available. Thanks.