From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wolfgang Dobler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Emacs 21 hangs in vm if scroll-margin=5 and Emacs.LineSpacing=1 Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:40:08 +0100 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <15832.50056.497864.318053@cincinnatus.kis.uni-freiburg.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1037616945 5480 80.91.224.249 (18 Nov 2002 10:55:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:55:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18DjZ8-0001Q8-00 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:55:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18DjZs-000350-00; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 05:56:28 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18DjKQ-0001pw-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 05:40:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18DjKJ-0001eq-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 05:40:28 -0500 Original-Received: from cincinnatus.kis.uni-freiburg.de ([132.230.90.37]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18DjKB-0001Wj-00; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 05:40:16 -0500 Original-Received: from cincinnatus.kis.uni-freiburg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cincinnatus.kis.uni-freiburg.de (8.12.3/8.12.3/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id gAIAe8AU005529; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:40:08 +0100 Original-Received: (from dobler@localhost) by cincinnatus.kis.uni-freiburg.de (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id gAIAe8EZ005506; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:40:08 +0100 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under Emacs 21.1.1 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:3898 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:3898 > When Emacs is looping, the way to debug it and get some useful > information is with a symbolic debugger. The file etc/DEBUG > gives advice on what info you should look for and how to get it. OK, I'll try this the next time. I am not sure it will be very useful, though, since all I got to see with gdb> attach gdb> backtrace were some assembly addresses with no variable or subroutine names whatsoever. The Emacs21 binary I am using (SuSE Linux) is stripped. Of course, this was probably just to naive, and I'll have to read etc/DEBUG. > Can you tell us precisely what to type so as to get into this > situation? With that info someone could debug it. The trouble is: I cannot reproduce this any more. Apparently, I have deleted from my VM buffer some mails that were crucial for the whole thing to go wrong. I have now re-instated the (setq scroll-margin 5), so I suppose I will encounter the problem again, but it doesn't look like it is easy to reproduce ny somebody else. Which looks like I'll have to do part of the debugging myself, or at least collect all the information I can. Should I re-compile a non-stripped executable of Emacs (I'd prefer to avoid that)? W o l f g a n g