bug#2377: 23.0.90; Cocoa Emacs crashes when loading zenburn color-theme

bug#2377: 23.0.90; Cocoa Emacs crashes when loading zenburn color-theme

[Matt Moriarity]

I'm using the emacs-starter-kit and trying to load the included
zenburn color-theme. When I execute M-x zenburn after loading emacs
normally, it crashes, saying Fatal error. If I start emacs with the
command "emacs -q -l ~/.emacs.d/init.el", then these same actions
successfully apply the color-theme. However, if I do "emacs -Q -l
~/.emacs.d/init.el", the crash occurs again.


In GNU Emacs 23.0.90.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.6.0, NS apple-appkit-949.43)
 of 2009-02-18 on 64-71-7-199.static.wiline.com
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.949
configured using `configure  '--with-ns''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: rcirc

Minor modes in effect:
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  show-paren-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  use-hard-newlines: t
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  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
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bug#2377: 23.0.90; Cocoa Emacs crashes when loading zenburn color-theme

[Chong Yidong]

> I'm using the emacs-starter-kit and trying to load the included
> zenburn color-theme. When I execute M-x zenburn after loading emacs
> normally, it crashes, saying Fatal error. If I start emacs with the
> command "emacs -q -l ~/.emacs.d/init.el", then these same actions
> successfully apply the color-theme. However, if I do "emacs -Q -l
> ~/.emacs.d/init.el", the crash occurs again.

I can't reproduce this, but I don't know whether it's because I'm on
GNU/Linux rather than MacOS, or because the precise steps you took are
missing from your bug report (e.g. how exactly did you set up the
emacs-starter-kit)?

Please try to narrow down the problem, and provide a simple,
self-contained recipe for reproducing this bug.  (Phil, could you help?)

bug#2377: 23.0.90; Cocoa Emacs crashes when loading zenburn color-theme

[Matt Moriarity]

I'm pretty sure it has something to do with cocoa emacs. Phil uses
this theme on a daily basis, and I tried using revisions of
emacs-starter-kit from before my own additions, and the problem was
the same.

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> wrote:
>> I'm using the emacs-starter-kit and trying to load the included
>> zenburn color-theme. When I execute M-x zenburn after loading emacs
>> normally, it crashes, saying Fatal error. If I start emacs with the
>> command "emacs -q -l ~/.emacs.d/init.el", then these same actions
>> successfully apply the color-theme. However, if I do "emacs -Q -l
>> ~/.emacs.d/init.el", the crash occurs again.
>
> I can't reproduce this, but I don't know whether it's because I'm on
> GNU/Linux rather than MacOS, or because the precise steps you took are
> missing from your bug report (e.g. how exactly did you set up the
> emacs-starter-kit)?
>
> Please try to narrow down the problem, and provide a simple,
> self-contained recipe for reproducing this bug.  (Phil, could you help?)
>

bug#2377: 23.0.90; Cocoa Emacs crashes when loading zenburn color-theme

[Glenn Morris]

tags 2377 moreinfo
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Chong Yidong wrote:

> the precise steps you took are missing from your bug report
[...]
> Please try to narrow down the problem, and provide a simple,
> self-contained recipe for reproducing this bug.

Matt Moriarity wrote:

> I'm pretty sure it has something to do with cocoa emacs.

That's not very precise.

bug#2377: 23.0.90; Cocoa Emacs crashes when loading zenburn color-theme

[Adrian Robert]

Hi,

If you have a chance and would be able to run an instance of -g only  
compiled Emacs.app under gdb and generate the crash, that output  
would be helpful.  (Running gdb from emacs/src would be best.)

thanks,
Adrian