Re: Emacs 24.1 / 24.2 crashes

[Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>]

Emacs-24.3 will be released soon.

Wait and watch.  File a bug report, if they are seen with new release.

> Hello,
>
> Recently, without apparent reasons, I've many crashes of Emacs (daily, a
> couple of crashes).
>
> There does not seem to be more or less crashes in Emacs 24.1 or Emacs 24.2 (on
> Windows XP). I got the executables from there:
>
> - Emacs 24.1
> (http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/emacs-24.1-rc-bin-i386.zip)
> or
> - Emacs 24.2
> (http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-20120917-r110062-bin-i386.zip).
>
> Both have crashes, /often/ when filling in my regexp pattern for `helm-files',
> but /not necessarily/ (sometimes in Gnus, sometimes at other moments).
>
> _Often_ Emacs is just blocked, and C-g can't help me. I simply have to kill
> Emacs from the Task Manager.
>
> _Sometimes_, though, I have an Emacs abort dialog, something like:
>
>     ╭────
>     │ type "gdb -p PID" from a shell prompt. Then, when GDB shows its prompt,
>     │ type "continue".
>     ╰────
>
> I had such a crash this morning, then applied the above recipe. I've no
> experience in running a debugger, but here's what I could come up with:
>
>
> $ gdb -p 8696
> GNU gdb (GDB) 7.5.50.20120815-cvs (cygwin-special)
> Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
> and "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "i686-cygwin".
> For bug reporting instructions, please see:
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>.
> Attaching to process 8696
> [New Thread 8696.0x190c]
> [New Thread 8696.0x1b7c]
> [New Thread 8696.0x27f4]
> Reading symbols from /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Emacs-24.2/bin/emacs.exe...done.
> (gdb) continue
> Continuing.
>
> Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
> [Switching to Thread 8696.0x190c]
> 0x7c91120f in ntdll!DbgUiConnectToDbg () from /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/ntdll.dll
> (gdb) c
> Continuing.
> [Inferior 1 (process 8696) exited with code 02]
> (gdb) quit
>
>
> Is that of any use?  Do I have to do something else in such cases?
>
> Best regards,
>   Seb

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