Re: emacs 24.3.50 freezing in unusable state.

[Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@talktalk.net>]

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On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 18:03:20 +0100
Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@talktalk.net> wrote:

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> Thanks Pete, comments inline.
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> On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 18:16:58 +0200
> Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> wrote:
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> > Am 28.09.2013 um 10:53 schrieb Sharon Kimble:
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> > > How do I rescue it please so that I can use it again please?
> > 
> > It /might/ be possible to attach a debugger to it and read out some
> > data… But when it's the first launch and it instantly became
> > unusable, then read below!
> > 
> > > Or should I report it upstream somewhere as a bug? 
> > 
> > This might be a "normal" state of a momentarily unusable state of
> > the GNU Emacs software. It can also be that your init file(s) are
> > provoking the error. Launching it with -q or -Q might render it
> > usable!
> 
> emacs -q # shows the newly compiled emacs, with a coloured background
> and the splash screen. 
> emacs -Q # shows the newly compiled emacs, with a white background and
> no splash screen. 
> 
> So it appears that the fault lies within my .emacs then, so I'll start
> seeking it out. 
> > 
> > If not, then kill it and make distclean, update again, configure
> > again, compile again, and launch GNU Emacs again. You can also play
> > with configure options, use a different compiler or different
> > compiler options. If you develop GNU Emacs 24.3.50 in your GNU Emacs
> > 23(.4?), you will have a readable log from the configure step (in
> > the *compilation* buffer from M-x compile RET ./configure … RET) and
> > possibly find findings which configure should not have found. These
> > can cause the described failure…
> > 
> I'm not really a developer of anything except bash scripts, but I'll
> bear the above comments in mind for the future, thanks. 
> 
> Thanks
> Sharon.

I spoke too soon, the error message that is shown is - 'compiler-macro
error for cl--block-wrapper: (error "Lisp nesting exceeds
`max-lisp-eval-depth`")'. To my untutored eye this sounds like
something that happened when it was compiled? Agreed? If so, then I'll
recompile it tomorrow and try again.

Thanks
Sharon.
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