Re: Abort on Mac OS X 10.4.11/ppc

[Vagn Johansen <gonz808@hotmail.com>]

Yuji Yamano <yyamano@kt.rim.or.jp> writes:

> Emacs building from the trunk on Mac OS X 10.4.11/ppc crashes 
> when I eval the following code. It is taken from 
> http://d.hatena.ne.jp/kazu-yamamoto/20090122/1232589385
>

> Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
> Reason: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at address: 0x00000000
> 0x90002dc8 in strlen ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x90002dc8 in strlen ()
> #1  0x90017918 in strdup ()
> #2  0x0017d404 in ns_descriptor_to_entity (desc=0xaced10, extra=41944073, style=0x0) at nsfont.m:169
> #3  0x0011a9dc in font_matching_entity (f=0xa7f770, attrs=0x2800409,
> spec=8275280) at font.c:2946

There same happens to me on OSX 10.4 when (trying to) selecting with
the GUI or the command line


~/src/emacs-23.1>gdb nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs             vj-mac
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This GDB was configured as "i386-apple-darwin"...Reading symbols for shared libraries ..... done

(gdb) run -Q -fn dummy
Starting program: /Users/vagn/src/emacs-23.1/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -Q -fn dummy
Reading symbols for shared libraries ....................................................................++ done
2009-08-02 13:35:19.101 Emacs[424] CFLog (0): CFMessagePort: bootstrap_register(): failed 1103 (0x44f), port = 0x2c03, name = 'org.gnu.Emacs.ServiceProvider'
See /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes.
2009-08-02 13:35:19.109 Emacs[424] CFLog (99): CFMessagePortCreateLocal(): failed to name Mach port (org.gnu.Emacs.ServiceProvider)

Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
Reason: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at address: 0x00000000
0x90012f53 in strdup ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x90012f53 in strdup ()
#1  0x0017bcf5 in ns_descriptor_to_entity (desc=0xadb290, extra=41944073, style=0x0) at nsfont.m:169
#2  0x0011a135 in font_matching_entity (f=0xa8dfb0, attrs=0xbfffea38, spec=1) at font.c:2910
#3  0x0011bb99 in font_load_for_lface (f=0xa8dfb0, attrs=0xbfffea38, spec=11216084) at font.c:3482
#4  0x0011bbf3 in font_open_by_spec (f=0xa8dfb0, spec=11216084) at font.c:3537
#5  0x0011e0a7 in font_open_by_name (f=0xa8dfb0, name=0x2a74148 "dummy") at font.c:3555
#6  0x00012583 in x_set_font (f=0xa8dfb0, arg=42504059, oldval=41944073) at frame.c:3388
#7  0x00011622 in x_set_frame_parameters (f=0xa8dfb0, alist=18943357) at frame.c:3017
#8  0x000136a4 in x_default_parameter (f=0xa8dfb0, alist=18943693, prop=42102857, deflt=44599147, xprop=0x18bc68 "font", xclass=0x1a1140 "Font", type=RES_TYPE_STRING) at frame.c:4130
#9  0x00172222 in Fx_create_frame (parms=18943733) at nsfns.m:1190
#10 0x00106e11 in Ffuncall (nargs=2, args=0xbfffed50) at eval.c:3051
#11 0x001405c3 in Fbyte_code (bytestr=1961451, vector=1961468, maxdepth=5) at bytecode.c:678
#12 0x0010671b in funcall_lambda (fun=1961404, nargs=1, arg_vector=0xbfffeee4) at eval.c:3232
#13 0x00106bfe in Ffuncall (nargs=2, args=0xbfffeee0) at eval.c:3102
#14 0x001405c3 in Fbyte_code (bytestr=2247731, vector=2247748, maxdepth=6) at bytecode.c:678
#15 0x0010671b in funcall_lambda (fun=2247684, nargs=1, arg_vector=0xbffff074) at eval.c:3232
#16 0x00106bfe in Ffuncall (nargs=2, args=0xbffff070) at eval.c:3102
#17 0x001405c3 in Fbyte_code (bytestr=2244995, vector=2245012, maxdepth=6) at bytecode.c:678
#18 0x0010671b in funcall_lambda (fun=2244964, nargs=0, arg_vector=0xbffff204) at eval.c:3232
#19 0x00106bfe in Ffuncall (nargs=1, args=0xbffff200) at eval.c:3102
#20 0x001405c3 in Fbyte_code (bytestr=1997467, vector=1997484, maxdepth=7) at bytecode.c:678
#21 0x0010671b in funcall_lambda (fun=1997444, nargs=0, arg_vector=0xbffff394) at eval.c:3232
#22 0x00106bfe in Ffuncall (nargs=1, args=0xbffff390) at eval.c:3102
#23 0x001405c3 in Fbyte_code (bytestr=1994091, vector=1994108, maxdepth=6) at bytecode.c:678
#24 0x0010671b in funcall_lambda (fun=1994068, nargs=0, arg_vector=0xbffff4b0) at eval.c:3232
#25 0x00106986 in apply_lambda (fun=1994068, args=41944073, eval_flag=1) at eval.c:3156
#26 0x001060d0 in Feval (form=8315189) at eval.c:2436
#27 0x00096c70 in top_level_2 () at keyboard.c:1368
#28 0x00104fa5 in internal_condition_case (bfun=0x96c54 <top_level_2>, handlers=41983689, hfun=0x9d996 <cmd_error>) at eval.c:1512
#29 0x00096cb8 in top_level_1 () at keyboard.c:1376
#30 0x00104e96 in internal_catch (tag=41979809, func=0x96c76 <top_level_1>, arg=41944073) at eval.c:1248
#31 0x000969d3 in command_loop () at keyboard.c:1331
#32 0x00096aa3 in recursive_edit_1 () at keyboard.c:953
#33 0x00096beb in Frecursive_edit () at keyboard.c:1015
#34 0x000955bc in main (argc=4, argv=0xbffff9d4) at emacs.c:1852
(gdb) The program is running.  Exit anyway? (y or n) y
error while killing target (killing anyway): assertion failure on line 274 of "/SourceCache/gdb/gdb-563/src/gdb/macosx/macosx-nat-inferior-util.c" in function "macosx_inferior_suspend_ptrace": status.value.sig == TARGET_SIGNAL_STOP

warning: error on line 1758 of "/SourceCache/gdb/gdb-563/src/gdb/macosx/macosx-nat-inferior.c" in function "macosx_kill_inferior_safe": (os/kern) failure (0x5x)
~/src/emacs-23.1>uname -a                                                vj-mac
Darwin vj-mac.local 8.11.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.1: Wed Oct 10 18:23:28 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.25.20~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386
~/src/emacs-23.1>                                                        vj-mac


When I run emacs -Q , call toggle-debug-on-error and then use the
mouse to do "Options" -> "Set Default Font..  I get

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
  x-popup-menu((menu-bar) ("Font Menu" ("Misc" ("Default"
  "-apple-Monaco-medium-normal-normal-*-12-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1")
  ("fixed" "fixed") ("6x10"
  "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--10-*-*-*-c-60-iso8859-1" "6x10")

[...]

  ("14 bold slant"
  "-adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--*-140-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1") ("18 bold
  slant" "-adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--*-180-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1") ("24
  bold slant"
  "-adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--*-240-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1")) nil))
  mouse-select-font() menu-set-font() call-interactively(menu-set-font
  nil nil)

-- 
Vagn Johansen