Re: gnus makes emacs lose response

[Leon]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> Leon <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Unfortunately, it has not been fixed up to today's CVS. How can I
>> generate debug messages? Thank you.
>
> You should run emacs under a debugger
>     cd emacs/src
>     gdb emacs
>     r
>
> When it hangs, stop it
>
>     C-z
>
> then examine the stack and other stuff to see
> where it hangs, e.g. as a first step, send us
> the output from these commands:
>
>     bt
>     xba
>     bt full
>
> Please read etc/DEBUG for info on debugging emacs.
It seems when I compiled emacs I didn't turn on debug. I have followed
your instruction and get some debug info attached.

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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...
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Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".

DISPLAY = :0.0
TERM = xterm
.gdbinit:834: Error in sourced command file:
No struct type named Lisp_Symbol.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /home/b/emacs/src/emacs-23.0.0 -geometry 80x40+0+0
Reading symbols from shared object read from target memory...(no debugging 
symbols found)...done.
Loaded system supplied DSO at 0x55b000
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[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1208699216 (LWP 2669)]
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---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
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Detaching after fork from child process 2672.
Detaching after fork from child process 2674.
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
Detaching after fork from child process 2675.
Detaching after fork from child process 2677.
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Program received signal SIGTSTP, Stopped (user).
[Switching to Thread -1208699216 (LWP 2669)]
0x0055b402 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0055b402 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0x0063a53d in ___newselect_nocancel () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2  0x0819b11e in wait_reading_process_output ()
#3  0xbfa5fc38 in ?? ()
#4  0x00000000 in ?? ()

Lisp Backtrace:
Attempt to extract a component of a value that is not a structure pointer.
(gdb) xba
Attempt to extract a component of a value that is not a structure pointer.
(gdb) bt full
#0  0x0055b402 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
No symbol table info available.
#1  0x0063a53d in ___newselect_nocancel () from /lib/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#2  0x0819b11e in wait_reading_process_output ()
No symbol table info available.
#3  0xbfa5fc38 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#4  0x00000000 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.

Lisp Backtrace:
Attempt to extract a component of a value that is not a structure pointer.
(gdb)

Thank you, Kim.
-- 
Leon
Emacs:GNU Emacs 23.0.0.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.15) of
2006-04-05 on sl392