From: Pieter van Oostrum <pieter-l@vanoostrum.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: 39962@debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#39962: 27.0.90; Crash in Emacs 27.0.90
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 12:38:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lxlfnxao58.fsf@cochabamba.vanoostrum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2d09aaugb.fsf@gmail.com> (Robert Pluim's message of "Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:22:28 +0100")
Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>> On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 06:17:01 +0000, Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com> said:
>
> Pip> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 8:59 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> >> Although I haven't been following this in detail, I'd like to suggest trying a
> >> GDB watchpoint to find the bug. Watchpoints have been invaluable to me when I
> >> debug garbage-collector and other memory management issues.
>
> Pip> They are! Unfortunately, they require a predictable address at which
> Pip> the corruption happens, and we don't appear to have that.
>
> You have a known address if you use rr and run in reverse.
>
> Robert
>
I have a procedure to generate a crash, but it isn't very predictable. I think that is because there are timers running and asynchronous processes. I get a different crash each time I run it.
The crash generation involves opening two large mailboxes with VM (it could be that one would also work). I then manipulate them both, re-sorting them in a different order, saving, switching between the two, sorting back to my preferred order, saving and closing. I have saved this procedure in a keyboard macro, giving it a name. I copied the definition to another Emacs session. To recreate the crash, I copy the definition to the new Emacs session in the *scratch* buffer, and I can then invoke it with C-x C-e. For the latest crash, I entered C-x C-e some 40 times, and went to bed. After I awoke, Emacs had not crashed yet. So I entered a few more C-x C-e, and then it crashed immediately. But it was different than the previous one. So, actually, I think it will be very difficult to find prope
r watch points.
--
Pieter van Oostrum
www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/
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Thread overview: 119+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-06 23:55 bug#39962: 27.0.90; Crash in Emacs 27.0.90 Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-07 7:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-07 8:40 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-07 8:41 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-07 10:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-07 11:06 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-07 13:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-07 15:06 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-07 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-07 15:49 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-07 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-07 17:21 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-07 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-07 19:14 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-07 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-07 22:07 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-09 4:00 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-08 7:42 ` Paul Eggert
2020-03-08 9:34 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-08 10:05 ` Paul Eggert
2020-03-08 21:37 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-08 21:58 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-08 22:34 ` Paul Eggert
2020-03-08 23:58 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-09 0:01 ` Paul Eggert
2020-03-09 13:26 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-09 17:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-09 19:48 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-10 13:37 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-09 19:51 ` Paul Eggert
2020-03-09 21:32 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-10 10:52 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-10 14:19 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-10 16:36 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-11 14:32 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-11 15:16 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-11 15:43 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-11 15:51 ` Paul Eggert
2020-03-11 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-11 17:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-11 18:53 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-11 19:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-12 10:32 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-12 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-12 20:36 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-13 9:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-13 13:56 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-13 16:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-14 9:02 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-14 15:39 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-14 16:00 ` Paul Eggert
2020-03-14 16:15 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-14 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-14 18:34 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-14 19:09 ` Paul Eggert
2020-03-14 20:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-15 12:12 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-15 14:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-15 12:09 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-15 14:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-16 16:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-11 20:03 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-12 13:55 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-12 18:13 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-12 20:00 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-13 8:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-13 8:39 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-13 9:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-13 17:43 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-14 3:38 ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-14 8:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-14 9:16 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-14 15:34 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-13 17:42 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-13 19:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-13 21:35 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-14 8:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-14 21:32 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-15 19:49 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-15 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-15 23:26 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-16 10:44 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-16 15:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-16 15:33 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-16 17:19 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-17 3:29 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-17 4:54 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-17 5:20 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-17 8:45 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-17 13:54 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-17 15:27 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-17 20:16 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-17 23:32 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-18 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-19 13:23 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-19 13:57 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-21 21:22 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-22 14:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-22 15:48 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-23 19:34 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-17 8:40 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-17 15:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-17 20:59 ` Paul Eggert
2020-03-18 6:17 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-18 9:22 ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-18 11:38 ` Pieter van Oostrum [this message]
2020-03-18 11:57 ` Paul Eggert
2020-03-18 14:08 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-19 19:17 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-19 19:31 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-19 21:30 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-18 14:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-16 18:36 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-13 7:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-10 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-10 18:23 ` Pieter van Oostrum
2020-03-11 8:22 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-30 12:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-29 13:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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