From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Fabrice Niessen" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12579: 24.1; Emacs 24.1 / 24.2 (daily) crashes Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:24:38 +0100 Organization: Mission Critical IT Message-ID: <80sj8jivh5.fsf@somewhere.org> References: <80vcep2v3z.fsf@somewhere.org> <83bogaz56i.fsf@gnu.org> <80mwzrriff.fsf@somewhere.org> <83mwzr7l55.fsf@gnu.org> <80hapyyfv5.fsf@somewhere.org> <838vba7og9.fsf@gnu.org> <80wqy0dpaj.fsf@somewhere.org> <83vcdj3opa.fsf@gnu.org> <80a9uv2hki.fsf@somewhere.org> <83hap23bqm.fsf@gnu.org> <80625hit25.fsf@somewhere.org> <83pq3p1gqn.fsf@gnu.org> <80y5ic1jrv.fsf@somewhere.org> <80pq3oyusf.fsf@somewhere.org> <87sj8km6h1.fsf@gmail.com> <83a9us131g.fsf@gnu.org> <87ip9gm22f.fsf@gmail.com> <834nl00wqf.fsf@gnu.org> <87ehk3ncap.fsf@gmail.com> <80wqxviwef.fsf@somewhere.org> <83wqxvzqvg.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352413505 5681 80.91.229.3 (8 Nov 2012 22:25:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 22:25:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12579-ubl+/3LiMTaZdePnXv/OxA@public.gmane.org, thierry.volpiatto-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, lekktu-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Thu Nov 08 23:25:13 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TWaX9-0001Lt-V4 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:25:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40722 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWaX0-0005Eg-PO for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:25:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34316) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWaWx-0005ES-O6 for bug-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:25:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWaWw-0000UX-NS for bug-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:24:59 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:46361) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWaWw-0000UT-Jn for bug-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:24:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TWaX0-0002wa-1F for bug-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:25:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Resent-From: "Fabrice Niessen" Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces-ubl+/3LiMTaZdePnXv/OxA@public.gmane.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Resent-Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:25:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12579 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs,w32 X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 12579-submit-ubl+/3LiMTaZdePnXv/OxA@public.gmane.org id=B12579.135241348711292 (code B ref 12579); Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:25:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12579) by debbugs.gnu.org; 8 Nov 2012 22:24:47 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56612 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TWaWk-0002w5-K4 for submit-ubl+/3LiMTaZdePnXv/OxA@public.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:24:46 -0500 Original-Received: from 81-188-7-133.sdsl.easynet.be ([81.188.7.133]:34685 helo=mail.missioncriticalit.com) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TWaWi-0002vx-6U for 12579-ubl+/3LiMTaZdePnXv/OxA@public.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:24:45 -0500 Original-Received: from MEDIACENTER. (ip-83-101-44-240.customer.schedom-europe.net [83.101.44.240]) by mail.missioncriticalit.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1E9A3500C36; Thu, 8 Nov 2012 23:24:39 +0100 (CET) X-Archive: encrypt In-Reply-To: <83wqxvzqvg.fsf-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:12:03 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.1 (windows-nt) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit-ubl+/3LiMTaZdePnXv/OxA@public.gmane.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:66656 Archived-At: Eli, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: "Fabrice Niessen" >> >> My gut feeling is also that `es.exe' is (co-)responsible. In fact, this is more >> than a gut feeling, as it's somehow based on a beam of presumptions: >> >> - with the latest versions of Emacs, the infloop always occur when using >> helm-for-files (never, for example, when using helm-M-x, which is the other >> tool I'm using, as frequently, from Helm) >> >> - `es.exe' is launched after having typed at least 3 characters in the prompt, >> and I've never seen an infloop with less characters (that is, only one or >> two) typed at the prompt: I always have typed a pattern of at least 5 to 6 >> chars before the freeze occurs (sometimes, even much more, when being >> deleting many characters because I typed an fault in the filename I'm after) >> >> - on Monday, after having gotten several frozen Emacs (since the last reboot >> of Windows -- once every 3 weeks or so), I had noticed up to 7 instances of >> `es.exe' (I guess they were hanging as some zombies, though I don't know to >> prove this -- any idea?) > > How (with what compiler) was es.exe compiled? Was MinGW GCC, Cygwin > GCC, MSVC, something else? I don't know the details, but I downloaded `es.exe' (53 KB) from http://www.voidtools.com/download.php, months ago: apparently, in December 2010 if I can trust the modification date on my file system -- this seems just right, btw. It does seem to me to be a pure Win32 application, but maybe you know how to know more? >> Does this give you more trust into Thierry's assumption? > > Not really. I'd need to know much more about es.exe, like how it > communicates with Emacs, and how it differs from any other > garden-variety of console programs, like locate.exe itself, before I > could make up my mind about this. I'll let Thierry comment on this... Best regards, Fabrice