From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jochen Luebbers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Segmentation fault of GNU Emacs 21.3.1 Date: 23 Oct 2007 10:49:31 +0200 Organization: My Home is my Castle Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193135138 19792 80.91.229.12 (23 Oct 2007 10:25:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:25:38 +0000 (UTC) To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.individual.net Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 23 12:25:38 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 1IkGwt-0002Bh-In for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:25:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IkGwl-0006Vn-9E for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:25:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IkFSB-0007WU-Gr for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:49:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IkFSA-0007V7-9i for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:49:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IkFSA-0007Ug-2B for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:49:34 -0400 Original-Received: from moderators.individual.net ([130.133.4.7]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IkFS9-00075j-Ek for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:49:33 -0400 Original-Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.66]) by moderators.individual.net (Exim 4.67) for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.individual.net with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1IkFS7-0001wE-RY>; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:49:31 +0200 Original-Received: from relay1.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.67]) by outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.67) for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.individual.net with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1IkFS7-0002dy-Qh>; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:49:31 +0200 Original-Received: from curry.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.1.2]) by relay1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.67) for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.individual.net with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1IkFS7-0000iH-Pk>; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:49:31 +0200 Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.uni-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:49:31 +0200 (MEST) Original-Path: individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 62 X-Orig-X-Trace: individual.net NoftfpCDdlYxP2FLpdS5uA7X2ZkmzIT7EzynWQek1gLFpi3+c4 Cancel-Lock: sha1:SAw9ZswrGHuPHh4fk8zZ2RXHFKM= User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-Originating-IP: 130.133.1.2 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:23:55 -0400 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:16808 Archived-At: Hi all, today is one of the unlucky ones: My Emacs crashed! I'd never had such behaviour before, Emacs kept always out of mischief, but with this Emacs I sometimes - rarely - get a crash. :-( It's the Emacs on my office PC installed from a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4 WS: ,------------------------------------------------------------------------ | [luebbersj@scs-66 ~]$ emacs --version | GNU Emacs 21.3.1 | Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. | You may redistribute copies of Emacs | under the terms of the GNU General Public License. | For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING. `------------------------------------------------------------------------ The back trace does not look very good to me... ,------------------------------------------------------------------------ | [luebbersj@scs-66 ~]$ gdb /usr/bin/emacs core.7662 | GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.132.EL4rh) | Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are | welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. | Type "show copying" to see the conditions. | There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. | This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"... | (no debugging symbols found) | Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1". | | Core was generated by `emacs -l /home/luebbersj/.CSemacs -geometry +515+439'. | Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. | [Reading/Loading...] | #0 0x08140dab in error () | (gdb) bt | #0 0x08140dab in error () | #1 0x1828942c in ?? () | #2 0x1828942c in ?? () | #3 0x1828942c in ?? () | #4 0xbff5080c in ?? () | #5 0x1828942c in ?? () | #6 0x382c325c in ?? () | #7 0x182a0e34 in ?? () | #8 0x00000001 in ?? () | #9 0x00000000 in ?? () `------------------------------------------------------------------------ Is there any change to get more information out off this core dump or in future without using a debug version of emacs by installing the sources compiling with debug flags? Is this eventually a well known bug in emacs 21.3? Regards Jochen. -- "Who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will loose both in the end." (Benjamin Franklin)