emacs crashes

emacs crashes

[Brian May]

Hello,

I have found certain emails, when I try to view them with the emacs
notmuch client, will cause emacs to crash (segmentation fault). Every
time, 100% reproducible.

A theory of have is maybe the emails are too big and the system can't cope, eg:

brian@aquitard:~$ notmuch show thread:00000000000104db | wc --bytes
943897
brian@aquitard:~$ notmuch show thread:000000000000fbab | wc --bytes
3262660
brian@aquitard:~$

These are emailed TSM Operational Reports, entirely ASCII (plus some
non-ASCII rubbish), no attachments, with a large number of log
entries.

An alternative theory is perhaps the non-ASCII rubbish (from weird
filenames some of our users have) is causing problems.

Anybody else experienced similar results?

Thanks
-- 
Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>

Re: emacs crashes

[Michal Sojka]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Brian May wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have found certain emails, when I try to view them with the emacs
> notmuch client, will cause emacs to crash (segmentation fault). Every
> time, 100% reproducible.
> 
> A theory of have is maybe the emails are too big and the system can't cope, eg:
> 
> brian@aquitard:~$ notmuch show thread:00000000000104db | wc --bytes
> 943897
> brian@aquitard:~$ notmuch show thread:000000000000fbab | wc --bytes
> 3262660
> brian@aquitard:~$
> 
> These are emailed TSM Operational Reports, entirely ASCII (plus some
> non-ASCII rubbish), no attachments, with a large number of log
> entries.
> 
> An alternative theory is perhaps the non-ASCII rubbish (from weird
> filenames some of our users have) is causing problems.
> 
> Anybody else experienced similar results?

This should be already fixed -- see http://debbugs.gnu.org/6214. I'm not
sure whether the fix is available in an emacs release or only in the
development branch. It seems that Debian includes the fixes in its
packages (http://bugs.debian.org/586459).

-Michal

Re: emacs crashes

[Brian May]

On 18 February 2011 19:38, Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz> wrote:
> This should be already fixed -- see http://debbugs.gnu.org/6214. I'm not
> sure whether the fix is available in an emacs release or only in the
> development branch. It seems that Debian includes the fixes in its
> packages (http://bugs.debian.org/586459).

Ok, that says it is fixed in version 23.2+1-5; Should be fixed in the
next release of Ubuntu.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/emacs23

Thanks for the references.
-- 
Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>