From: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, 73456@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#73456: 31.0.50; X protocol error: RenderBadGlyph
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 23:39:31 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r097fvvo.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86wmizbueo.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:54:55 +0300")
[புதன் செப்டம்பர் 25, 2024] Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
>> Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, 73456@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:34:37 +0530
>>
>> [புதன் செப்டம்பர் 25, 2024] Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>
>> > Why is it not feasible for you to run Emacs under GDB at all times?
>> > (Apologies if you already explained that once and I forgot.) GDB
>> > generally gets out of the way as long as Emacs is running smoothly,
>> > and only kicks in when there's some sort of trouble.
>>
>> I didn't explain it before so no worries there. I ran a debug build of
>> Emacs for a ~month before and it was too slow for me to comfortably use
>> it (In particular, Gnus was painfully slow, and Org is a bit too slow).
>
> So the problem is not GDB, but the debug build of Emacs? If so, you
> can run the optimized build under GDB as well, just be sure to use the
> "-g3" switch to GCC when you build, and don't strip the binary (i.e.,
> if you install the build, do NOT use "make install-strip"). The
> backtrace will be somewhat less informative, but it is usually still
> useful.
Thanks, it is reassuring to know that it will be useful still. I will
rebuild Emacs and run it under GDB in the coming days.
> However, please remember to invoke Emacs in X-synchronous mode by
> using '-xrm "emacs.synchronous: true"' on the command line, when the
> issue is related to X protocol errors, because otherwise X errors are
> reported asynchronously, and it is impossible to know which code
> caused an X error.
Noted.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-09-25 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-24 16:50 bug#73456: 31.0.50; X protocol error: RenderBadGlyph Visuwesh
2024-09-24 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-25 0:34 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-25 6:03 ` Visuwesh
2024-09-25 12:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-25 13:04 ` Visuwesh
2024-09-25 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-25 18:09 ` Visuwesh [this message]
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