From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gerd.moellmann@t-online.de (Gerd Moellmann) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Emacs 21.2 core dump in find_first_unchanged_at_end_row Date: 29 Mar 2002 11:20:40 +0100 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <86wuvvekuf.fsf@gerd.dnsq.org> References: <200203280044.g2S0i7g00924@shade.twinsun.com> <7458-Thu28Mar2002103446+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <200203281843.g2SIhI601544@shade.twinsun.com> Reply-To: gerd@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1017403959 6279 127.0.0.1 (29 Mar 2002 12:12:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:12:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@is.elta.co.il, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16qvFG-0001dA-00 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 13:12:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16qvF6-0005O4-00; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 07:12:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout06.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.19]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16qulN-0003eJ-00 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 06:41:46 -0500 Original-Received: from fwd05.sul.t-online.de by mailout06.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 16qtVA-0004s4-01; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:20:56 +0100 Original-Received: from gerd.dnsq.org (520015515780-0001@[217.230.111.158]) by fwd05.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 16qtV0-1vUZf6C; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:20:46 +0100 Original-Received: (from gerd@localhost) by gerd.dnsq.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2TAKec00503; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:20:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gerd@gnu.org) X-Authentication-Warning: gerd.dnsq.org: gerd set sender to gerd@gnu.org using -f Original-To: Paul Eggert In-Reply-To: <200203281843.g2SIhI601544@shade.twinsun.com> Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.50 X-Sender: 520015515780-0001@t-dialin.net Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:284 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:284 Paul Eggert writes: > > Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 10:34:47 +0200 > > From: "Eli Zaretskii" > > > > "xbacktrace" should show a Lisp backtrace which will tell what Emacs > > was doing, and might refresh your memory about your keystrokes at that > > time. > > Unfortunately "xbacktrace" reports nothing, as backtrace_list is zero. I think this is normal, given the GDB backtrace you sent. > I do remember one other thing. Right after I saved the file, I must > have accidentally typed one more "a" character into the buffer at a > relatively random location in the file. This caused emacs to create a > "#" file with the extra "a" in it, which I found after the core dump. > I think this must have happened just before Emacs dumped core. IIRC, the last time something like that came up, it was caused by bogus unchanged information in the buffer (BEG_UNCHANGED/END_UNCHANGED). Maybe it's worth looking at that, although it might be hard to reconstruct what happened.