Re: Emacs hung, have attached debugger

[Geoff Shannon <geoffpshannon@gmail.com>]

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I posted compressed versions of the full backtrace to the bug on debbugs.


On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 12:33 AM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:

> There will be likely a lot of repetition here as this sounds like an
> infinite recursion.  Just the end and the start of the traceback (enough
> to recognize the pattern in the middle) should be enough.  The traceback
> will likely be because of stack overflow.
>

Basically the conclusion I came to after examining the backtrace. Before
Glenn
suggested compressing the full content and attaching it, that's what I had
done.

Though of course I didn't think of including the top entries until after
I'd posted the
bottom ones...


> You can use ulimit (see its man page) to limit the available stack space
> in advance: that should allow you to get a backtrace that is reasonably
> short even without manual intervention.  Just be sure that it's not
> bombing out because of a regular operation.
>

Good idea!  Now if only I could reproduce this crash...

Also, sorry if posting about this on emacs-devel was a bit out of place.

-- 
Geoff

Nothing is ever easy.

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