From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: erroneous auto-save-list file Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:59:32 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87mytopcqc.fsf@escher.local.home> <87tznvsu7i.fsf@escher.local.home> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194663590 24942 80.91.229.12 (10 Nov 2007 02:59:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 02:59:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Berman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 10 03:59:53 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IqgZa-0002JE-6B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:59:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IqgZO-00041t-Fu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:59:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IqgZK-0003zJ-Pg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:59:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IqgZJ-0003x9-LF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:59:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IqgZJ-0003wn-Eu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:59:33 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IqgZJ-0005od-65 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:59:33 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IqgZI-0003SU-Rb; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:59:32 -0500 In-reply-to: <87tznvsu7i.fsf@escher.local.home> (message from Stephen Berman on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:23:45 +0100) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:82896 Archived-At: 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. That could be a serious problem in GDB. It would be good to talk with GDB developers about how to investigate it. Since the bug's cause is known, they could focus on figuring out why GDB fails to give a backtrace.