From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Skip Montanaro Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using 'git bisect' to pinpoint errors in .emacs. Was: Fatal error 11: Segmentation Fault Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 07:14:44 -0500 Message-ID: References: <86imvx5gyz.fsf@zoho.eu> <86ef6l5dwk.fsf@zoho.eu> <86a7h85ru5.fsf@zoho.eu> <865zrw55gm.fsf@zoho.eu> <5e7fb661-c090-4893-bcab-24ee4d96bea3@default> <86ftqzhd04.fsf@zoho.eu> <20190403081845.GA6609@tuxteam.de> <1spnq3gy4i.fsf_-_@uninett.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="22912"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" To: Vegard Vesterheim Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 03 14:15:43 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hBenv-0005q6-LX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2019 14:15:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57518 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hBenu-0007SH-8u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2019 08:15:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35322) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hBenX-0007Qp-Bm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2019 08:15:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hBenU-0007iG-L5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2019 08:15:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pf1-x42f.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::42f]:43513) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hBenS-0007WL-Kk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2019 08:15:16 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pf1-x42f.google.com with SMTP id c8so8062103pfd.10 for ; Wed, 03 Apr 2019 05:15:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=zTFV+SsO7OGdeUXNTOsfWZcBaf3u0lceEN9L8DvTkFk=; b=FOtCieMLRaxl07SL27CykWom0sHfiAGuqhF/4JZm7NDXuoSkvpeSLwrOFcIVMTrjXN B4qVeVmhMTgyNljbxaOiHL4CqX/Uyz+JuIMCDMWyBvyydZHMfU1gIoykW8UtGF7qKhox 7wXAqaIK/2HFneXPsemgI/jxTUCQR9sCbdXYx9zwkwc06RLbALwgCmm4hB6I4DewZvgq jlP95Jbkk2v+c5bHE6TJYe7oRZg37flClVY6yQF0xr4Fl+tKIRzWf/vODvj8lHqln/md EGO8umuN2u6fgj1sBFkJPvUUQz5QLorhI3U3wOFcmFOftoWrauF8J8kL6zQwhNoaZK3y scCg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=zTFV+SsO7OGdeUXNTOsfWZcBaf3u0lceEN9L8DvTkFk=; b=Y6WMepDn3mt7dn/Ew9nO4N0/fwCAbUGUFV2O27dKG2uLIdI0sHVa1LFkXZ4RJoPfKv jO28TcufuxVXQhwomzA4hXEqDcYpj/2Iuy4D0e8B5HCbCWSr6SccF0P9dSvUQ1jnSpC7 dJKdC9Oj0zrLWb8c8D9SX+AoU+ovE1xXhZCfw7Ym933SaczUrXc25JBFx6MuCZhpg5bt gOvV2RIJU8qj17GkAFZW5qJhmZ/pYyOwIIHR/vM+4H/QTM6XwRlICVfuU9JZseb4cfKw el29Twtj2BJ4BYCSGBXU9ANp0k7gMPVpvhg5I+PKvV+5iDfTa7TPtvCyXsx74SdP72gl VDew== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAVheoXcJDxqWdu19B2ZQGJeIlflObQz3SzK01svuhKv0owork1G yBG/tMCQusFH4kpFFNkbyu5Nj8TPYP862l90WSUvtJoyAfxo X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqyH1Ve/OOwc9oXPx4fPAe7taZ7q/155LllVHr/dVesobxOq4ARlLDAJ7qGAnrojmDN48UsRJ5rADy8fSoI3bLE= X-Received: by 2002:aa7:8694:: with SMTP id d20mr74045781pfo.81.1554293710578; Wed, 03 Apr 2019 05:15:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1spnq3gy4i.fsf_-_@uninett.no> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4864:20::42f X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:119865 Archived-At: Two small comments: > After upgrading to emacs25 some time ago, I experienced that emacs would > segfault every so often. Back in the early days, Emacs was configured (as I recall now with my old man's memory) that if you hit C-g twice in quick succession it would provoke an abort( > Since I have my .emacs in git, it was simply a matter of > supplying a small script that triggered the error to the 'git bisect > run' command. I have (for the past few years, anyway) stored all my dot files in git (nothing distributed, just local), mostly as a way to recover from accidental deletion. You've provided yet another reason to use it. Thanks for the tip. Skip Montanaro