From: Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: erroneous auto-save-list file
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:23:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tznvsu7i.fsf@escher.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1IqLEx-0006d4-5r@fencepost.gnu.org
On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:13:07 -0500 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
> A couple of days ago, Emacs crashed (an abort due to a since fixed bug),
> and when I restarted it and typed M-x recover-session, the latest
> .saved* file in auto-save-list only contained one file and its
> auto-saved backup, though two other files also contained auto-saved
> backups, and these were still in their directory, so I could recover
> them.
>
> This could happen due to a crash inside do_auto_save.
> Is that what happened?
Maybe. The abort was due to a bug in the GTK+ tool bar code, which I
reported and Jan D. quickly fixed. I suppose it is possible that
do_auto_save was being executed when the abort occurred, is it? When
the initial abort occurred, resulting in the erroneous auto-save-list
file, Emacs was not running under gdb, but, as I wrote in my bug report
about the abort, even reproducing it under gdb yielded no backtrace, why
I don't know. (The abort locked up my desktop and I could unlock it
only by killing the emacs process, after which, when I tried to get a
backtrace, gdb just said "Cannot access memory at address 0x8321b6c".)
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-09 8:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-08 22:57 erroneous auto-save-list file Stephen Berman
2007-11-09 4:13 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-09 8:23 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2007-11-10 2:59 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-15 8:51 ` Stephen Berman
2007-11-16 4:28 ` Richard Stallman
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