bug#42848: 25.3; emacs and xemacs segmentation error core dump on start up

bug#42848: 25.3; emacs and xemacs segmentation error core dump on start up

[ruth]

bug report: i'm running leap15.1 openSuse linux, when i update X11
(there are a series of updates, including a security one) and then start
emacs and xemacs from a command line, they both crash immediatly, with a
core dump, and a segmentation error. i can't locate the 'core' file.

the output from xemacs is as follows.

     Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion

     Fatal error (11).

     Your files have been auto-saved.  Use `M-x recover-session' to
     recover them.

     Your version of XEmacs was distributed with a PROBLEMS file that may
     describe your crash, and with luck a workaround.  Please check it
     first, but do report the crash anyway.

     Please report this bug by invoking M-x report-emacs-bug, or by
     selecting `Send Bug Report' from the Help menu.  If that won't work,
     send ordinary email to `xemacs-beta@xemacs.org'.  *MAKE SURE* to
     include this entire output from this crash, especially including the
     Lisp backtrace, as well as the XEmacs configuration from M-x
     describe-installation (or equivalently, the file `Installation' in
     the top of the build tree).

     *Please* try *hard* to obtain a C stack backtrace; without it, we
     are unlikely to be able to analyze the problem.  Locate the core
     file produced as a result of this crash (often called `core' or
     `core.<process-id>', and located in the directory in which you
     started XEmacs or your home directory), and type

       gdb /usr/bin/xemacs core

     then type `where' at the debugger prompt.  No GDB on your system?
     You may have DBX, or XDB, or SDB.  (Ask your system administrator if
     you need help.)  If no core file was produced, enable them (often
     with `ulimit -c unlimited') in case of future reoccurrence of the
     crash.

     Lisp backtrace follows:

       # (unwind-protect ...)
       # (unwind-protect ...)
       # bind (frame-being-created)
       make-frame(nil #<x-device on ":0.0" 0x2>)
       frame-initialize()
       # bind (debugger debug-on-error command-line-args-left)
       command-line()
       # (condition-case ... . ((t (byte-code "    "
     [error-data data nil] 1))))
       # bind (error-data)
       normal-top-level()
       # (condition-case ... . error)
       # (catch top-level ...)





In GNU Emacs 25.3.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.30)
  of 2019-05-04 built on lamb70
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12003000
Configured using:
  'configure --with-pop --without-hesiod --with-kerberos --with-kerberos5
  --with-xim --with-wide-int --with-file-notification=inotify
  --with-modules --enable-autodepend --prefix=/usr
  --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share
  --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
  --enable-locallisppath=/usr/share/emacs/25.3/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
  --with-x --with-sound --with-xpm --with-jpeg --with-tiff --with-gif
  --with-png --with-rsvg --with-dbus --with-xft --without-gpm
  --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xwidgets --with-toolkit-scroll-bars
  --x-includes=/usr/include --x-libraries=/usr/lib64 --with-libotf
  --with-m17n-flt --build=x86_64-suse-linux 'CFLAGS=-fmessage-length=0
  -grecord-gcc-switches -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
  -fstack-protector-strong -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables
  -fstack-clash-protection -g -D_GNU_SOURCE
  -DGDK_DISABLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS -DGLIB_DISABLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS
  -pipe -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-unused-variable -Wno-unused-label
  -Wno-unprototyped-calls -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -fno-PIE
  -DSYSTEM_PURESIZE_EXTRA=55000 -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=10000 '
  LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O2'

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS NOTIFY
ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 MODULES XWIDGETS

Important settings:
   value of $LC_NUMERIC: POSIX
   value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
   value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
   show-paren-mode: t
   tooltip-mode: t
   global-eldoc-mode: t
   electric-indent-mode: t
   mouse-wheel-mode: t
   tool-bar-mode: t
   menu-bar-mode: t
   file-name-shadow-mode: t
   global-font-lock-mode: t
   blink-cursor-mode: t
   auto-composition-mode: t
   auto-encryption-mode: t
   auto-compression-mode: t
   buffer-read-only: t
   line-number-mode: t
   transient-mark-mode: t

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
ESC M-x is undefined

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message dired format-spec rfc822 mml
mml-sec password-cache epg epg-config gnus-util mm-decode mm-bodies
mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail
rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns help-mode easymenu
cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib mail-prsvr mail-utils paren ispell time-date
mule-util delsel lpr tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks
lisp-float-type mwheel x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset
image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode
prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar
mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cl-generic cham
georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao
korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech
european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese charscript case-table epa-hook
jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice
loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay
sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget
hashtable-print-readable backquote dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting
system-font-setting font-render-setting xwidget-internal move-toolbar
gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 16 92988 7818)
  (symbols 48 20314 0)
  (miscs 40 132 146)
  (strings 32 16073 4480)
  (string-bytes 1 461573)
  (vectors 16 13758)
  (vector-slots 8 476126 5656)
  (floats 8 170 112)
  (intervals 56 308 0)
  (buffers 976 19))

-- 
ruth
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bug#42848: 25.3; emacs and xemacs segmentation error core dump on start up

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: ruth <ruth@muswell.me.uk>
> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 12:51:51 +0100
> Cc: ruth moulton <ruth@muswell.me.uk>
> 
> bug report: i'm running leap15.1 openSuse linux, when i update X11
> (there are a series of updates, including a security one) and then start
> emacs and xemacs from a command line, they both crash immediatly, with a
> core dump, and a segmentation error. i can't locate the 'core' file.

Please try Emacs 27.1 which was just released, I think this bug is
fixed there.

bug#42848: 25.3; emacs and xemacs segmentation error core dump on start up

[ruth]

hi eli,

thanks for your response. I should have waited longer! - but i decided 
instead to upgrade my suse system to leap 15.2 so that all the x11 
software was up to date. This was successfull and emacs and xemacs run 
ok. the default version of emacs is still 25.3, so i'll make sure i 
update emacs to the latest release (27.1).

again, many thanks for your help

ruth

On 13/08/2020 14:27, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: ruth <ruth@muswell.me.uk>
>> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 12:51:51 +0100
>> Cc: ruth moulton <ruth@muswell.me.uk>
>>
>> bug report: i'm running leap15.1 openSuse linux, when i update X11
>> (there are a series of updates, including a security one) and then start
>> emacs and xemacs from a command line, they both crash immediatly, with a
>> core dump, and a segmentation error. i can't locate the 'core' file.
> Please try Emacs 27.1 which was just released, I think this bug is
> fixed there.