From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#366: Problem executing emacs Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:40:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <35317.148.214.40.115.1212700604.squirrel@noether.astro.ugto.mx> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310348486 2807 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2011 01:41:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 01:41:26 +0000 (UTC) To: 366-done@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 11 03:41:22 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qg5Uu-0002uW-PM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:41:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53990 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qg5Ut-0001s0-Qp for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:41:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:36964) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qg5Ue-0001rn-1U for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:41:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qg5Uc-00054H-JT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:41:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:51554) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qg5Uc-00054D-I0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:41:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qg5Uc-00056s-DH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:41:02 -0400 Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 01:41:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 366 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo Mail-Followup-To: 366@debbugs.gnu.org, rgm@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by 366-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D366.131034844119612 (code D ref 366); Mon, 11 Jul 2011 01:41:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 366-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Jul 2011 01:40:41 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qg5UH-00056H-0R for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:40:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qg5UF-000564-P4 for 366-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:40:40 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37789) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qg5UA-0007f6-3n; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:40:34 -0400 X-Spook: White House Jiang Zemin fundamentalist Taiwan Treasury X-Ran: v7!_ (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:08:57 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:41:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:48527 Archived-At: This bug is being closed because it refers to what is now an old version of Emacs, and because we need more information to be able to do anything and it has not been provided. If you still see this problem with the latest Emacs release, 23.3, please reply with the requested information and we can reopen this report if needed. You can view the whole report at http://debbugs.gnu.org/BUGNUMBER Stefan Monnier wrote: > Do you get the same result with "emacs -Q -nw"? How 'bout > "emacs -Q --batch" (which should just exit without doing anything)? > > It is of course possible that the installation target already contains > some files and that these interact poorly, so that `make install' would > actually fix your problem. It seems highly unlikely, tho. > > If you really wan tto track down this problem, then go to ../emacs/src, > start "gdb emacs" from there, then do "b Fsignal", then "r -Q" and > whenever you get a signal do "xbacktrace" which will give you both > a C and a (crude) Lisp backtrace. These are likely to be very long and > repetitive (and you may also hit the Fsignal breakpoint before the > actual problem, so try continuing afterwards to see if that really was > the problematic error, rather than an expected signal caught and handled > somewhere). > Then please send us the backtraces (especially the Lisp one, but the > C one as well),