From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Cc: Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: help debugging a segfault
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 23:17:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wph64qw8.fsf@wanadoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ec319455-840a-4b75-82f6-73fbb5115224@googlegroups.com
Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com> writes:
[snip]
> When this happens I have just typed `M-x ensime` and it seems like
> emacs is crashing when loading the .ensime file, which is an
> s-expression file that is loaded as data in
> https://github.com/ensime/ensime-emacs/blob/master/ensime-config.el#L153-L168
> (actually if anybody knows of a more efficient way to load the file,
> I'd be keen to update our code, I'm a maintainer).
>
> The exact file that it is apparently performing the re_search within
> is https://gist.github.com/fommil/d906918819cd2632e9864842e1d59b57
>
>
> Could anybody please shed some light on what could be going wrong? I
> also have a core dump file but I have no idea what to do with it, I've
> never used gdb in anger.
[snip]
Hmmm... On Emacs bug#24640 it was mentioned that loading an
s-expression-based data file (generated by undo-tree) was suspected to
cause a crash. I don't know if, at the end, that was related to the bug
or just speculation. It was marked as fixed on the emacs-25 branch.
Maybe you could try it?
The bug report: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=24640
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-17 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-17 20:16 help debugging a segfault Sam Halliday
2016-10-17 20:28 ` Sam Halliday
2016-10-18 5:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-18 7:35 ` Sam Halliday
2016-10-18 9:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-17 21:17 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2016-10-18 5:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
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