From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Roche Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: vc-git-state(abbrev_defs) -> "Stack overflow in regexp matcher" Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:18:16 -0400 Message-ID: <877gy4ilfr.fsf@pobox.com> Reply-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Tom Roche NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1332981600 4750 80.91.229.3 (29 Mar 2012 00:40:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:40:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 29 02:39:58 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SD3PB-0005n9-PY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:39:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57278 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SCyf6-0004wF-0z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:36:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59119) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SCyIt-00041l-Pu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:13:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SCyIq-000311-Fo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:13:07 -0400 Original-Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:64011 helo=smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SCyIq-0002zF-79 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:13:04 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEC4373C9; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:12:58 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to :subject:reply-to:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s= sasl; bh=+ekVRjL/vpBRjGvfR96rvB7+fRw=; b=vTulQT1uctOnx6x5z9M3ilO /ANEzAzeEynwQwQVK0yhEzKMP0RA59zLb4SrMDp10+SBQqwKlRkmSUpx4tWD7Ppo Eq3IY/kf0KVubAcezykcJ5pIpC46iN3G2fQmYXTwpDqms3/8WkMLQqfW5ivNswxd jdIHgMe2wN8iMnJpq6LM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:subject :reply-to:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; q=dns; s= sasl; b=JWyc8qAvUgT38wGQEQoR1Om++BAqFmONgMFO4UnStaH8SFJCEMCAvHS9 7P4XHAxoT5zlQYXh+JxMKgF4M/jyanXpXnTic8cEKGEp3AjLArQLoMCineZ+2f42 IyC/qLwIMtShaSa8LVJ1jEeN+qIID7rzu+OQeO5ZkgheoPs1uNQ= Original-Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C650473C8; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:12:58 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from tlrPanP5.pobox.com (unknown [50.52.137.242]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0808473C7; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:12:57 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: GNU Emacs 24.0.92.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 07A5F88A-790A-11E1-AA22-9DB42E706CDE-07218935!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 208.72.237.35 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84190 Archived-At: I'm running "GNU Emacs 24.0.94.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of 2012-03-26 on cw-bkp0, modified by Debian" on Linux Mint Debian Edition, `uname -rv` == 3.0.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 24 02:24:44 UTC 2011 I have been * for several months, versioning my ~/.emacs.d/ using git * for several years, keeping my ~/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs open in a buffer (for ease of adding entries) * forever, using desktop to maintain buffers between sessions Just now the box locked up after changing video after a presentation. I restarted the OS, then emacs, which produced *Backtrace* > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Stack overflow in regexp matcher") > string-match(...) > vc-git-state("/home/me/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs") > apply(vc-git-state "/home/me/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs") > vc-call-backend(Git state "/home/me/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs") > vc-default-state-heuristic(Git "/home/me/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs") > apply(vc-default-state-heuristic Git "/home/me/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs") > vc-call-backend(Git state-heuristic "/home/me/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs") > vc-state-refresh("/home/me/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs" Git) > vc-state("/home/me/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs" Git) > vc-default-mode-line-string(Git "/home/me/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs") > vc-git-mode-line-string("/home/me/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs") > apply(vc-git-mode-line-string "/home/me/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs") > vc-call-backend(Git mode-line-string "/home/me/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs") > vc-mode-line("/home/me/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs" Git) > ad-Orig-vc-find-file-hook() > vc-find-file-hook() > run-hooks(find-file-hook) > after-find-file(nil t) > find-file-noselect-1(# "~/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs" nil nil "~/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs" (8391858 2053)) > find-file-noselect("~/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs" nil nil t) > find-file("~/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs" t) > call-interactively(find-file nil nil) I - removed abbrev_defs from my desktop file - killed the emacs process - started emacs normally However I get the error above if I try to open abbrev_defs in a buffer (`C-x C-f`). How to fix, or further debug? TIA, Tom Roche