From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Wells Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Emacs exited with message =?utf-8?b?4oCcWA==?= protocol error: =?utf-8?b?QmFkUGl4bWFw4oCd?= Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:17:30 +0100 Message-ID: <86y7ggfwhx.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> References: <86odhdh7ke.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186942660 21496 80.91.229.12 (12 Aug 2007 18:17:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:17:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 12 20:17:39 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IKI0R-0002Yd-6i for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:17:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IKI0Q-0002CF-Ba for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:17:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IKI0N-00029k-Gt for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:17:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IKI0L-00029W-Gl for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:17:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IKI0L-00029T-BB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:17:33 -0400 Original-Received: from izanami.macs.hw.ac.uk ([137.195.13.6]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IKI0K-0000m6-JX; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:17:32 -0400 Original-Received: from lxultra1.macs.hw.ac.uk ([137.195.27.173]:35236 helo=127.0.0.1) by izanami.macs.hw.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 4.51) id 1IKI0I-0004xm-UQ; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:17:30 +0100 Original-Received: (nullmailer pid 32640 invoked by uid 1001); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:17:30 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun\, 12 Aug 2007 13\:56\:05 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:16330 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > To debug an X protocol error, you need to do (x-synchronize t). > That way xlib detects the error inside the primitive that failed. > Normally it finds out about the error later on, inside > some other primitive, so the backtrace is irrelevant to the cause > of the error. Thanks very much for this information! >>From reading the code, it is not clear whether this is enough to also get core dump files from these errors. What would I need to do to ensure that such a crash produced a core dump file? -- Joe