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From: Ivan Andrus <darthandrus@gmail.com>
To: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs seems awfully unstable on OS X lately
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 10:37:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E89532CF-7212-4791-9D71-96D03F93B6F3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120914.092513.1021878789502755268.hanche@math.ntnu.no>

On Sep 14, 2012, at 9:25 AM, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:

> Do other OS X users experience stability problems on OS X with recent
> builds from trunk?

Yes.  I've been using the Mac Port for the past week or so because of it. I plan to run it under gdb and see if I can track it down, but I haven't had time yet.  I'm not sure when I will.  

> I built an emacs from current trunk on September 6. It had a tendency
> to get stuck in garbage collection and needing to be killed,
> especially when I tried sending emails with large-ish attachments (on
> the order of a megabyte or two).
> 
> So I built a new one yesterday. It is even more unstable, just
> crashing randomly in the main event loop.

I see that here too.

> So for the time being, I have reverted to a version that I build in
> late July, which seems stable enough.

If you can bisect that would probably be helpful.

> I am not sure that I have enough data to send a meaningful bug report.
> Are the OS provided crash logs useful? I have read somewhere that gdb
> doesn't work with the output of the current crop of Apple's compilers,
> so I haven't even tried using that.

I'm on 10.6, but gdb seems to work fine for me.

> I'll try to gather more information on these crashes if needed, but
> then I could use some tips on how to do it. But if others are seeing
> these crashes and are actively working on fixing them, I'll just wait.


I certainly wouldn't wait for me to fix it. :-)

-Ivan


  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-14  8:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-14  7:25 Emacs seems awfully unstable on OS X lately Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-09-14  8:37 ` Ivan Andrus [this message]
2012-09-14 15:24   ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-09-14 15:40     ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-09-14 15:59       ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-09-14 19:37     ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-09-14 19:46       ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-09-14 21:15         ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-09-14 21:36           ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-09-14 23:00             ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-09-15  6:54               ` Andreas Schwab
2012-09-15  7:16               ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-15  9:37               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-09-15  9:58                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-15 13:46                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-09-15 14:21                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-15 15:00                       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-09-15  9:57               ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-09-16  0:47                 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-09-16  8:04                   ` Jan Djärv
2012-09-16 13:15                     ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-09-16 15:21                       ` Jan Djärv
2012-09-16 15:47                         ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-09-16 18:27                           ` Jan Djärv
2012-09-17  7:14                             ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-09-24  9:54                               ` Harald Hanche-Olsen

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