From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Crash when starting an external process Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:01:49 +1200 Message-ID: <18086.34013.764583.705212@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <46A660C4.4080201@speakeasy.net> <18086.31562.65841.625222@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <1185317450.6280.6.camel@PisteOff> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185318192 1594 80.91.229.12 (24 Jul 2007 23:03:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:03:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Robert Woodworth Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 25 01:03:09 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1IDTPH-0005Je-Ol for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:03:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IDTPH-0007ch-8h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:03:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IDTOV-0007Cl-86 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:02:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IDTOT-0007Ba-Nm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:02:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IDTOT-0007BV-Ih for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:02:17 -0400 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IDTOS-0002EP-R8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:02:17 -0400 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (215.62.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.62.215]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E3903D9D0C; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:02:10 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BBAF38FC66; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:01:50 +1200 (NZST) In-Reply-To: <1185317450.6280.6.camel@PisteOff> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.1.50.41 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:46012 Archived-At: > Did that, however, emacs is exiting *normally*. So there is nothing in > the BackTrace. My understanding is that a crash is an abnormal exit, so I presume that in your case Emacs is not crashing. Does it happen if you start Emacs 22.1 with "emacs -Q" or "emacs -q"? If no, then you need to look at site local files like your .emacs. If yes, then after starting Emacs under GDB, set a breakpoint at Fkill_emacs: (gdb) b Fkill_emacs (gdb) run After you start an external process doe this catch Emacs before it exits? If so, please post this backtrace (`bt full' and `xbacktrace'). -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob