From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jambunathan K Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 24.1 / 24.2 crashes Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:24:40 +0530 Message-ID: <87k3v8hr5b.fsf@gmail.com> References: <80k3v8vtex.fsf@somewhere.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349254438 14058 80.91.229.3 (3 Oct 2012 08:53:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 08:53:58 +0000 (UTC) To: Help GNU Emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 03 10:54:04 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 1TJKi1-0007aU-8i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 10:53:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46832 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJKhv-00076f-Pg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 04:53:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46386) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJKhp-00076O-7l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 04:53:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJKhk-0002Cf-VQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 04:53:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pa0-f41.google.com ([209.85.220.41]:34479) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJKhk-0002CZ-Pb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 04:53:20 -0400 Original-Received: by padfa10 with SMTP id fa10so6603452pad.0 for ; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 01:53:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=1xstbpkYPAEXwJ1OKcuZBPSkqhh79xhqsJuE5ZAGLC4=; b=yQHo+6HThyJkBOCIOi/0hbfXSb/lTBLrP27bgWrEwniOo9Apt/C76llb1Tatuym9e2 EPBgdW2goibwjh9B9eOG+zo0joUeAMwBTLNsBCNjhyT4dJNgkI1UaHmt5sofoi4OP+FU wVfbrPPU/vmv4d6wy+6Rk+/B1X998MHKATCS5hJ1+xYzou7bTXGROwv24+w1JF9A1htT EbuzWOAzOKfmbFzhpJx+N65GK6/c9H3jnN2WVGCzW5Vbu3SYbOlo3c4v0fj/nRn3OlVZ CLjbgJCytiZ8tbeiA8cJE3dpcoqBdY/YYFQV6e68IVFP/mwRm9t8wQHnrDdnlHhScYsJ /03A== Original-Received: by 10.68.235.68 with SMTP id uk4mr11217097pbc.52.1349254399880; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 01:53:19 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from debian-6.05 ([101.63.128.140]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g2sm2154806paz.23.2012.10.03.01.53.17 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 03 Oct 2012 01:53:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <80k3v8vtex.fsf@somewhere.org> (Sebastien Vauban's message of "Wed, 03 Oct 2012 10:41:58 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.220.41 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:87039 Archived-At: Emacs-24.3 will be released soon. Wait and watch. File a bug report, if they are seen with new release. > Hello, > > Recently, without apparent reasons, I've many crashes of Emacs (daily, a > couple of crashes). > > There does not seem to be more or less crashes in Emacs 24.1 or Emacs 24.= 2 (on > Windows XP). I got the executables from there: > > - Emacs 24.1 > (http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/emacs-24.1-rc-bin-i386.zi= p) > or > - Emacs 24.2 > (http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-20120917-r110062-bin-i386.z= ip). > > Both have crashes, /often/ when filling in my regexp pattern for `helm-fi= les', > but /not necessarily/ (sometimes in Gnus, sometimes at other moments). > > _Often_ Emacs is just blocked, and C-g can't help me. I simply have to ki= ll > Emacs from the Task Manager. > > _Sometimes_, though, I have an Emacs abort dialog, something like: > > =E2=95=AD=E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80 > =E2=94=82 type "gdb -p PID" from a shell prompt. Then, when GDB shows= its prompt, > =E2=94=82 type "continue". > =E2=95=B0=E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80 > > I had such a crash this morning, then applied the above recipe. I've no > experience in running a debugger, but here's what I could come up with: > > > $ gdb -p 8696 > GNU gdb (GDB) 7.5.50.20120815-cvs (cygwin-special) > Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" > and "show warranty" for details. > This GDB was configured as "i686-cygwin". > For bug reporting instructions, please see: > . > Attaching to process 8696 > [New Thread 8696.0x190c] > [New Thread 8696.0x1b7c] > [New Thread 8696.0x27f4] > Reading symbols from /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Emacs-24.2/bin/emacs.exe..= .done. > (gdb) continue > Continuing. > > Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap. > [Switching to Thread 8696.0x190c] > 0x7c91120f in ntdll!DbgUiConnectToDbg () from /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system3= 2/ntdll.dll > (gdb) c > Continuing. > [Inferior 1 (process 8696) exited with code 02] > (gdb) quit > > > Is that of any use? Do I have to do something else in such cases? > > Best regards, > Seb --=20