Re: emacs dumps core using gnus

[Robert Marshall]

On Sat, 02 Feb 2002, eliz@is.elta.co.il wrote:

>> From: Roland Winkler <roland.winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de>
>> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 19:00:27 +0100
>> 
>> Using gnus I tried to read the news article attached below. When I
>> opened it all I got was a core dump. GDB says
>> 
>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>> __libc_free (mem=0x10) at malloc.c:3005
>> 3005    malloc.c: No such file or directory.
>> 
>> Please let me know if there is any other information I could try to
>> provide.
> 
> Please type 2 commands inside GDB, and send their results:
> 
>   (gdb) bt
>   (gdb) xbacktrace
> 
> For the second command to work, you need to invoke GDB from the src
> directory in the Emacs source tree.
> 
> TIA

Also segfaults with 21.1.90

In GNU Emacs 21.1.90.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2002-02-02 on jailhouse
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: en_GB
  value of $LC_CTYPE: en_GB
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: en_GB
  value of $LC_MONETARY: en_GB
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_GB
  value of $LC_TIME: en_GB
  value of $LANG: en
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t



Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x4039ee0c in free () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0x4039ee0c in free () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x08119b54 in emacs_blocked_free (ptr=0x10) at alloc.c:688
#2  0x4039edfd in free () from /lib/libc.so.6
#3  0x401de3f3 in FreeSavedImages () from /usr/lib/libungif.so.4
#4  0x00000013 in ?? ()
Cannot access memory at address 0x194
(gdb) xbacktrace
 xbacktrace
 0x819cd1c "image-size"
 0x865ae48 "mm-image-fit-p"
 0x8654e20 "mm-valid-and-fit-image-p"
 0x586fe0cc Lisp type 5
 0x8657ae8 "mm-inlinable-p"
 0x81943f8 "byte-code"
 0x88135f8 "gnus-mime-display-single"
 0x88134f0 "gnus-mime-display-part"
 0x8192c1c "mapcar"
 0x88136d0 "gnus-mime-display-mixed"
 0x88134f0 "gnus-mime-display-part"
 0x87ff144 "gnus-display-mime"
 0x81d7b6c "gnus-article-prepare-display"
 0x85dcf58 "gnus-article-prepare"
 0x87caca8 "gnus-summary-display-article"
 0x87231b8 "gnus-summary-goto-article"
 0x8738b10 "gnus-summary-read-group-1"
 0x85dcbe0 "gnus-summary-read-group"
 0x8768194 "gnus-group-read-group"
 0x889e798 "gnus-topic-read-group"
 0x81944a4 "call-interactively"
 
R
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