From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 50MB large auto-save file after Emacs crash Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:43:05 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87mzj2uevb.fsf@escher.local.home> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134725839 31282 80.91.229.2 (16 Dec 2005 09:37:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:37:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 16 10:37:13 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnBzq-00072k-25 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:35:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnC0O-0005ac-CJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 04:36:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EnBC0-000707-Rh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:43:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EnBBx-0006yW-8j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:43:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnBBv-0006xl-5O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:43:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.17] (helo=gandalf.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EnBEJ-0007iw-9C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:46:19 -0500 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il (nitzan.inter.net.il [192.114.186.20]) by gandalf.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.1-GA) with ESMTP id HGX15908; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:43:05 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-152-179.inter.net.il [80.230.152.179]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.2-GA) with ESMTP id CFT69053 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:43:04 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Stephen Berman In-reply-to: <87mzj2uevb.fsf@escher.local.home> (message from Stephen Berman on Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:27:29 +0100) 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:47851 Archived-At: > From: Stephen Berman > Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:27:29 +0100 > > A few weeks ago, while using a current CVS build, Emacs suddenly > crashed and vanished without a trace. At the moment of the crash I > was using Gnus and scrolling an article buffer with the mouse wheel. > Since I was not running under gdb, I couldn't retrieve a backtrace or > anything else to make a useful bug report. There could be something else useful on your system: the SYSLOG files. It sounds like you are running a Gnu/Linux box, so please look in the SYSLOG files (if you don't know where or how, please read the relevant man pages first), and try to find any messages related to the crashed Emacs session. Also, please make sure your shell setup doesn't disable core dumps (with a ulimit command). In general, if Emacs crashes, it should leave behind a core dump file; if core files are not disabled, then it's possible that Emacs was either killed by the OS (thus the advice to look in SYSLOG), or it simply exited.