From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [jaa@cc.jyu.fi: BUG REPORT: Emacs is aborting sporadically by itself] Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 19:39:01 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E7B5C45.5070503@swipnet.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048272144 3063 80.91.224.249 (21 Mar 2003 18:42:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 18:42:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 21 19:42:22 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18wRSa-0000ja-00 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 19:41:44 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18wRUQ-0003Ss-00 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 19:43:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18wRRT-0006LR-06 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:40:35 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18wRQt-00061W-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:39:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18wRQH-0004wz-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:39:22 -0500 Original-Received: from stubby.bodenonline.com ([193.201.16.94]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18wRQ2-0004ov-00; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:39:06 -0500 Original-Received: from swipnet.se (accessno42.bodenonline.com [193.201.16.44]) h2LJVPbL027712; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 20:31:26 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12513 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12513 Richard Stallman wrote: > Can anyone help him investigate this crash? Maybe talk with him > by phone and tell him what to type. > > ------- Start of forwarded message ------- > X-Authentication-Warning: tukki.cc.jyu.fi: jaa owned process doing -bs > Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 16:06:43 +0200 (EET) > From: Jani Averbach > To: > X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) > Subject: BUG REPORT: Emacs is aborting sporadically by itself > Sender: emacs-pretest-bug-bounces+rms=gnu.org@gnu.org > > > Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug > and the precise symptoms of the bug: > > When I was editing files (LaTeX sources, with global-font-lock t) > emacs is aborting sporadically by itself. Size of the file is about 25k. > > I can't not describe any pattern for that aborting, it would happen during > editing, or when I am away from keyboard. > (gdb) bt > #0 0x405f00b1 in __kill () at __kill:-1 > #1 0x0810ccd1 in fatal_error_signal (sig=18550) at /data/a/users/jaa/sw/emacs/src/emacs.c:379 > #2 > #3 0x405f00b1 in __kill () at __kill:-1 > #4 0x0810cd26 in abort () at /data/a/users/jaa/sw/emacs/src/emacs.c:412 > #5 0x08158890 in mark_object (argptr=0x0) at /data/a/users/jaa/sw/emacs/src/alloc.c:4871 > #6 0x081598ce in mark_maybe_object (obj=1486446028) at /data/a/users/jaa/sw/emacs/src/alloc.c:3440 > #7 0x081574c5 in mark_memory (start=0xbfffec00, end=0xbffff84c) at /data/a/users/jaa/sw/emacs/src/alloc.c:3577 > #8 0x0815751b in mark_stack () at /data/a/users/jaa/sw/emacs/src/alloc.c:3820 > #9 0x08157a7b in Fgarbage_collect () at /data/a/users/jaa/sw/emacs/src/alloc.c:4190 > #10 0x0816c7ae in Ffuncall (nargs=4, args=0xbfffedc0) at /data/a/users/jaa/sw/emacs/src/eval.c:2680 > #11 0x0816c3e8 in call3 (fn=407725308, arg1=405971540, arg2=405971852, arg3=949359756) at /data/a/users/jaa/sw/emacs/src/eval.c:2581 > #12 0x0810199f in x_get_local_selection (selection_symbol=405971540, target_type=405971852, local_request=0) > at /data/a/users/jaa/sw/emacs/src/xselect.c:429 This and the other stack trace he sent shows a crash inside x_get_local_selection. That function, and x_handle_selection_request where it is called from, has local Lisp_object:s but no GCPRO. Isn't that needed? I am not sure. Just a thought. Jan D.