Hello J.P., First of all, thanks for checking my bug report. "J.P." writes: > Unfortunately, I was unable to reproduce the error message or the crash > using the same ArchLinux Emacs package. See attached logs. Interesting! I've been experiencing this issue since I started using ERC, a couple of years ago. However, at the same time, I'm glad to know that it could be something on my side. > I neglected to try this variant but certainly can. I understand. > No luck here either. I couldn't get any transfers to terminate > prematurely by lowering this value significantly. One more time, this is very interesting. In my config., that variable is set to a value of 24000. If I lower it to the standard value, 1600, the transfer stops, as informed earlier. I don't know for sure but, maybe, is a problem in the sending side client, or in the server? I am just a regular user of IRC and don't really understand all parts of the protocol, so just guessing here. > Anyway, since you're able to manifest this consistently, what about > seeing if any insights can be found by attaching a debugger? Not sure > what a sensible break point would be (handle_sigsegv perhaps?). Well, I've never debugged an error like this, especially using GDB, but attached are some logs that I managed to capture: - The ``backtrace.log'' is just the standard output that shows when Emacs crashes after the multiple C stack overflow messages; - The ``core.3183'' one is the output of the `coredumpctl info ' command; and - The ``gdb_bt_emacs_core.3183.log'' one is the backtrace output from gdb of the previous core dump. Unfortunately I also don't know which breakpoints to set to be more useful. > As might be obvious, I'm rather useless in this department. Hopefully > an expert will chime in at some point. Thanks. Thank you and I also hope that others can come up with ideas on how to resolve or (best) debug this issue. -- Regards, Fernando de Morais.