From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12579: 24.1; Emacs 24.1 / 24.2 (daily) crashes Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:12:03 +0200 Message-ID: <83wqxvzqvg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <80vcep2v3z.fsf@somewhere.org> <83obkbyojd.fsf@gnu.org> <80fw5ms9k1.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> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352412784 31606 80.91.229.3 (8 Nov 2012 22:13:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 22:13:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12579@debbugs.gnu.org, thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com, lekktu@gmail.com To: Fabrice Niessen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 08 23:13:13 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 1TWaLY-00013f-E4 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:13:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38751 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWaLP-0003JS-7Z for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:13:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50621) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWaLM-0003Ix-7T for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:13:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWaLL-0005Zy-7N for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:13:00 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:46351) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWaLL-0005Zu-2E for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:12:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TWaLO-0002gQ-8X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:13:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:13:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12579 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs,w32 X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 12579-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12579.135241273310262 (code B ref 12579); Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:13:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12579) by debbugs.gnu.org; 8 Nov 2012 22:12:13 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56602 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TWaKX-0002fM-TI for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:12:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:42498) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TWaKS-0002fA-CX for 12579@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:12:08 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MD600D00W8W6H00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for 12579@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:11:59 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MD600C1SWBYNFT0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:11:59 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <80wqxviwef.fsf@somewhere.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.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@gnu.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@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:66655 Archived-At: > From: "Fabrice Niessen" > Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, 12579@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:04:40 +0100 > > 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? > 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.