From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
Cc: 8705@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8705: 23.3; Emacs occasionally crashes (segfault) just after starting it
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 14:38:58 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r57tfvot.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110520111601.GH1581@prunille.vinc17.org>
> Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 13:16:01 +0200
> From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
> Cc: 8705@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> On 2011-05-20 13:40:34 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > All of your reported crashes seem to be in a call to `getenv', which
> > is a library function, called by GTK routines deep in the GTK code.
> > It is hard to imagine that they could be Emacs problems, especially
> > since you see them since Emacs 22.
>
> Unless Emacs has corrupted the memory earlier.
That's definitely a possibility. However, it is strange that only you
see these problems for several versions. If Emacs corrupts memory so
early into the session, many other users would be affected.
> I've rebuilt Emacs with -ggdb -O0. I now need to wait for another
> crash, hoping that the -O0 won't make the bug disappear.
Thanks.
> > Could you please show the backtrace until it reaches Emacs code?
>
> It was meaningless: I got nothing until __libc_start_main.
> With the rebuild (I also installed the -dbg versions of the
> libraries, when available in Debian), I should have more
> information for the next crash...
Thanks again.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-20 11:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-20 8:54 bug#8705: 23.3; Emacs occasionally crashes (segfault) just after starting it Vincent Lefevre
2011-05-20 9:12 ` Vincent Lefevre
2011-05-20 10:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-20 11:16 ` Vincent Lefevre
2011-05-20 11:38 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-05-20 12:59 ` Vincent Lefevre
2011-09-20 14:51 ` Vincent Lefevre
2012-07-06 11:13 ` Vincent Lefevre
2012-07-06 20:32 ` Troels Nielsen
2012-07-06 22:51 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-07-07 15:08 ` Troels Nielsen
2014-09-22 13:06 ` Vincent Lefevre
2014-09-27 4:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-09 20:03 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-12 2:40 ` bug#8705: Emacs 24.3 " Paul Eggert
2014-10-12 6:19 ` Paul Eggert
2014-10-14 18:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-14 18:44 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-14 18:45 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-14 18:52 ` Glenn Morris
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