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From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
To: Duncan Harvey <djh-emacs-bugs@syndrig.co.uk>
Cc: 28498@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28498: 25.2; Crash calling `find-font' on text-only terminals on macOS
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:32:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170918163226.GA95903@breton.holly.idiocy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0ACB3D64-6617-4375-A06B-6CCF89D225F1@syndrig.co.uk>

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 04:31:44PM +0100, Duncan Harvey wrote:
> Run:
>   .../path/to/Emacs -nw -Q -eval '(find-font (font-spec :name "Menlo-16"))'
> 
> On my system this crashes more often than not: "Fatal error 11: Segmentation faultAbort trap: 6"
> 
> Unfortunately it does not crash 100% of the time. If you don't
> experience a crash immediately, please try half a dozen or so times,
> or wait a few seconds before re-attempting.

I can only replicate this on Emacs 25, the Emacs 26 branch seems
immune.

Can you please try a nightly build?
-- 
Alan Third





  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-18 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-18 15:31 bug#28498: 25.2; Crash calling `find-font' on text-only terminals on macOS Duncan Harvey
2017-09-18 16:32 ` Alan Third [this message]
2017-09-18 16:58   ` Duncan Harvey
2017-09-18 19:12     ` Alan Third
2017-09-19 16:29       ` Duncan Harvey
2017-09-19 19:48         ` Alan Third

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