Re: another crash -- this time at startup

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Alex Schroeder <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 14:25:48 +0100
> >
> > Can anyone think of a reason for crashing with SIGSTOP?
> 
> I am confused myself.  I just got it today again.  The only thing I
> remember doing differently is that I did not immediately hit RET and c
> to continue; I waited a few seconds.  Then I hit c.  And then I get
> the SIGSTOP.  And just out of curiosity I hit c again.  And no problem
> -- Emacs continued.  So perhaps this is some weird interaction between
> GDB, Emacs, or the window manager (ratpoison).  Who knows.

If the crash doesn't happen outside of GDB, you could simply tell GDB
to pass it to Emacs, or ignore it.  See the line of src/.gdbinit
which says this:

   handle SIGALRM ignore

for an example of how to do that (more info about this is available
in the GDB manual).