From: Live System User <nyc4bos@aol.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Does anybody know how to debug a live Emacs process?
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 06:24:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87inz2vxnf.fsf@aol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83d1paxijn.fsf@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
Hi,
>> From: Live System User <nyc4bos@aol.com>
>> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 02:37:17 -0400
>>
>> I have a live Emacs process that is stuck in a state which only
>> displays:
>>
>> Invalid argument #<terminal 2> in ‘get-device-terminal’
>>
>> in the echo area, including when trying to execute M-x.
>>
>> I was hoping to solicit assistance to help obtain information to
>> help Emacs and opened Bug#23378 on Monday.
>
> Attach the debugger to the running process, like this:
>
> gdb -p PID
>
> where PID is the process number of the Emacs process, you should be
> able to see it in the display produced by the 'top' or 'ps' command.
>
> If GDB succeeds in attaching to the process, it will stop it and
> display a "(gdb)" prompt. Then type at that prompt:
>
> thread apply all bt full
>
> Then file a bug report with everything that was displayed by GDB.
>
> Some additional information about debugging Emacs is available in the
> file etc/DEBUG that is part of the distribution.
I've added the GDB backtrace info to Bug#23378, as requested.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-28 10:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-28 6:37 Does anybody know how to debug a live Emacs process? Live System User
2016-04-28 8:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-28 10:24 ` Live System User [this message]
2016-04-29 18:18 ` Live System User
2016-04-29 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
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