Re: Crash when starting an external process

[Robert Woodworth <woodworth@speakeasy.net>]

Did that, however, emacs is exiting *normally*.   So there is nothing in
the BackTrace.

Something is telling emacs to quit when I issue a shell command.

I have yet to really look at the source code, but if anyone out there
knows what file has the routine for the shell commands, I could put a
breakpoint there and watch it.  Or if there is just a way to turn on all
debug printfs.




BTW:  I have eliminated anything in the .emacs and system file by
repeating the issue with --debug-init and --no-init-file --no-site-file 





On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 10:20 +1200, Nick Roberts wrote:
> Robert Woodworth writes:
>   > Help!
>  > 
>  > Ubuntu 7.04
> 
>  > My emacs is suddenly crashing every time I start an external process.  
>  > I've tried "shell" "compile" "gdb" etc...
>  > The entire emacs process crashes with an "exit normally" return.  ??
>  > 
>  > Just for kicks, I uninstalled the Ubuntu dpkg and re-installed it.  -no fix-
>  > I also uninstalled the dpkg and compiled emacs 22.1 from source and *HAD 
>  > THE SAME PROBLEM*

>  > 
>  > My emacs is suddenly crashing every time I start an external process.  
>  > I've tried "shell" "compile" "gdb" etc...
>  > The entire emacs process crashes with an "exit normally" return.  ??
>  > 
>  > Just for kicks, I uninstalled the Ubuntu dpkg and re-installed it.  -no fix-
>  > I also uninstalled the dpkg and compiled emacs 22.1 from source and *HAD 
>  > THE SAME PROBLEM*
>  > 
>  > 
>  > 
>  > So....
>  > I must have a link, env var or some other system thing wrong.
>  > 
>  > What debug items can I turn on so that I know what is happening when I 
>  > try to start an external process??
> 
> Follow the instructions in report-emacs-bug, i.e. start Emacs in GDB and
> then start an external process to get it to crash:
> 
>    If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
>    please include the output from the following gdb commands:
>        `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
> 
> Please do this with the most up to date version of Emacs that you have.
>