From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Reid Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: unpredictable emacs 21 crashes Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 22:53:13 GMT Organization: UTCC Campus Access Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023749748 23836 127.0.0.1 (10 Jun 2002 22:55:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 22:55:48 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17HY4h-0006CL-00 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 00:55:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17HY4W-0004Zm-00; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 18:55:36 -0400 Original-Received: from ashd1-1.relay.mail.uu.net ([199.171.54.245]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17HY2R-0004KX-00 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 18:53:28 -0400 Original-Received: from info2.utcc.utoronto.ca by mr0.ash.ops.us.uu.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: info2.utcc.utoronto.ca [128.100.132.28]) id QQmsrz04276 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 22:53:23 GMT Original-Received: from news@localhost by info2.utcc.utoronto.ca id <117436-289>; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 18:53:16 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Path: news X-Nntp-Posting-Host: maxwell.astro.utoronto.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Lines: 79 Fake-Sender: news@campus-news-reading.utoronto.ca X-Url: Original-To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:1923 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:1923 Hi, Since upgrading to emacs 21 a few months ago it hasn't stayed up for more than a day or two on average. I've been watching for a pattern without seeing any, and I'm not sure but I think sometimes it even crashes in the middle of the night when I'm not there. TIA for any help. 168 ~% file core core: ELF 32-bit LSB core file of 'emacs' (signal 11), Intel 80386, version 1 169 ~% gdb /usr/bin/emacs core GNU gdb 5.0 Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"... Core was generated by `emacs -geometry 81x42'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.so.7...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.so.7 Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libpng.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libpng.so.2 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libz.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libz.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libm.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libungif.so.4...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libungif.so.4 Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_files.so.2 #0 0x403248d1 in __kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) up #1 0x80d6044 in fatal_error_signal () (gdb) up #2 (gdb) up #3 0x811d476 in mark_object () (gdb) up #4 0x811d8ea in mark_object () (gdb) up #5 0x811d932 in mark_object () (gdb) up #6 0x811d8ea in mark_object () (gdb) (It kept returning to 0x811d8ea in mark_object () until I lost patience.) 173 ~% rpm -qf /usr/bin/emacs emacs-21.1-0.2.9 (On Red Hat 7ish GNU/Linux.)