From: Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: 50MB large auto-save file after Emacs crash
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:28:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zmn13vuf.fsf@escher.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: umzj1ph46.fsf@gnu.org
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On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:43:05 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net>
>> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:27:29 +0100
>>
>> A few weeks ago, while using a current CVS build, Emacs suddenly
>> crashed and vanished without a trace. At the moment of the crash I
>> was using Gnus and scrolling an article buffer with the mouse wheel.
>> Since I was not running under gdb, I couldn't retrieve a backtrace or
>> anything else to make a useful bug report.
>
> There could be something else useful on your system: the SYSLOG
> files. It sounds like you are running a Gnu/Linux box, so please look
> in the SYSLOG files (if you don't know where or how, please read the
> relevant man pages first), and try to find any messages related to the
> crashed Emacs session.
Unfortunately, there is nothing unusual in any log file around the
time of the timestamp of the auto-save file, which I assume is close
to the time of the crash.
> Also, please make sure your shell setup doesn't disable core dumps
> (with a ulimit command).
My system is in fact set up not to create core files, but I can change
that. Can you recommend a reasonable maximum size?
> In general, if Emacs crashes, it should leave behind a core dump file;
> if core files are not disabled, then it's possible that Emacs was
> either killed by the OS (thus the advice to look in SYSLOG), or it
> simply exited.
It appears in this case to be the latter. FWIW, I still have the
auto-save file, but even compressed it's bigger than 13MB, so I don't
want to attach it. Anyway, I doubt it's useful, but just to get an
idea of it, I've attached the first 95 lines.
Steve Berman
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-16 7:27 50MB large auto-save file after Emacs crash Stephen Berman
2005-12-16 8:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-16 15:28 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2005-12-16 20:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-16 22:26 ` Stephen Berman
2005-12-17 7:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
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