From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 24 crashes Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:04:19 +0200 Message-ID: <87bomk5bh8.fsf@googlemail.com> References: <8762csssnd.fsf@googlemail.com> <83ehrgh47z.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335088962 22578 80.91.229.3 (22 Apr 2012 10:02:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 10:02:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 22 12:02:42 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1SLtcu-0000lq-5k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:02:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55861 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLtct-0008Te-FS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 06:02:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57044) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLtco-0008TX-BB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 06:02:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLtcm-000214-HP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 06:02:33 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37559) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLtcm-00020q-BH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 06:02:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SLtci-0000dy-AV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:02:28 +0200 Original-Received: from g231233073.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.231.233.73]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:02:28 +0200 Original-Received: from quintfall by g231233073.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:02:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: g231233073.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:APM0d99Ls67oX3JIow4c71OOXtE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84591 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Thorsten >> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:04:54 +0200 >> >> I do have quite a few Emacs crashes recently, but looking into the main >> log files of my system did not yield any related messages - where can I >> find them? > > If your system log doesn't have anything appropriate, it probably > means that Emacs aborted itself, rather than crashed. Emacs aborting itself is especially annoying when you have a setting with one Emacs daemon but lots of Emacs clients, i.e. when using WMs like tmux or stumpwm to manage the Emacs windows. > The way to find out why is to run Emacs under a debugger. Then, when > Emacs aborts, the debugger will kick in, and you will be able to poke > around for reasons. That would be something like: ,--------------- | gdb run emacsd `--------------- ? I must admit, I just installed gdb, have to read a bit about its use first probably. -- cheers, Thorsten