From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Emacs 21.4a dumps core while exiting Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 20:31:27 +0300 Message-ID: References: <200509091604.j89G4A9h019993@cs.wsc.ma.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1126287344 29242 80.91.229.2 (9 Sep 2005 17:35:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 17:35:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 09 19:35:43 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EDml1-0004GR-HO for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 19:33:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EDml1-0003Ap-0f for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 13:33:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EDmji-0002n4-JT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 13:32:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EDmjf-0002lc-UE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 13:32:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EDmjf-0002kl-9N for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 13:32:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.20] (helo=nitzan.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EDmnW-0002Ga-AK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 13:36:22 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-54-226.inter.net.il [80.230.54.226]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.6.5-GR) with ESMTP id BJO41284 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 9 Sep 2005 20:31:24 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: Larry Griffith In-reply-to: <200509091604.j89G4A9h019993@cs.wsc.ma.edu> (message from Larry Griffith on Fri, 09 Sep 2005 12:10:32 -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:12952 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 12:10:32 -0400 > From: Larry Griffith > Cc: larry@cs.wsc.ma.edu > > When we recently upgraded from emacs 21.3 to emacs 21.4a on > our Solaris 9 machines, we found that emacs would cause a coredump > when it exited. Buffers were written correctly to files. We tried > reverting to emacs 21.3, but now it does the same thing. Even > clearing out all files installed by emacs and reinstalling does not > prevent this behavior. The only change we can think of that might > cause this was an upgrade of gcc to version 4.0.1 prior to the emacs > upgrade. Does it help to compile without optimizations (-O0)? > I have attached a transcript of our installation of 21.4 You forgot the attachment. Please make sure that the transcript include the debug session where you run GDB or DBX on the core file and show the backtrace, so we know where to look for the problem. TIA