From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: 39948@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39948: 28.0.50; crash in fchmodat
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 22:17:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1y5uqrk.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o8t91mb5.fsf@gmx.net> (Stephen Berman's message of "Fri, 06 Mar 2020 17:26:54 +0100")
On Fri, 06 Mar 2020 17:26:54 +0100 Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Mar 2020 16:31:50 +0100 Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>>>>> On Fri, 06 Mar 2020 15:16:43 +0100, Stephen Berman
>> <stephen.berman@gmx.net> said:
>>
>> Stephen> I updated from master today and now Emacs is crashing
>> Stephen> when I use Gnus. The first time it happened I been
>> Stephen> reading news groups for a while, then email arrived and
>> Stephen> when I pulled it into Gnus, Emacs crashed. Then I
>> Stephen> restarted Emacs under GDB and now get the crash already
>> Stephen> on starting Gnus (with my initializations; it doesn't
>> Stephen> happen when I start an unconfigured Gnus in Emacs -Q). I
>> Stephen> tried to get a full backtrace, but the output of `bt
>> Stephen> full' seemed to be in an endless loop; here's the start
>> Stephen> of the backtrace:
>>
>> Wild Guess: does reverting 07da629926daf849aab248175c88cf53a5e21558
>> help? Or maybe 9d626dffc6ba62c0d7a1a5c712f576ed8684fd66 ?
>
> Reverting 07da629 does appear to prevent the crash. Specifically, as a
> sanity check, before reverting, I ran my build from master under GDB
> again, started Gnus, but now Emacs didn't crash; however, then I
> composed a mail to myself in Gnus and upon sending it, Emacs did crash
> exactly as before in fchmodat. This I did `git revert -n
> 07da629926daf849aab248175c88cf53a5e21558', rebuilt, started Emacs again,
> started Gnus, there was no crash, sent a mail to myself, again with no
> crash, and pulled the mail into Gnus also without the crash. So it
> appears that that commit is indeed the cause of the crash. Thanks for
> pinpointing it.
I also got the crash using Tramp, so I guess 9d626dff also needs to be
fixed (or reverted).
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-06 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-06 14:16 bug#39948: 28.0.50; crash in fchmodat Stephen Berman
2020-03-06 15:31 ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-06 16:26 ` Stephen Berman
2020-03-06 21:17 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2020-03-06 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-06 16:45 ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-06 23:54 ` Paul Eggert
2020-03-07 0:30 ` Stephen Berman
2020-03-07 13:43 ` Stephen Berman
2020-03-08 20:28 ` Stephen Berman
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