Re: List of some current problems

[Stefan Monnier]

> 1.  I can confirm the recent report
>     
>     <URL:http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-07/msg00318.html>
>     
>     This bug causes my Solaris machine to beep forever like with
>     (while t (ding)).  I found no way to stop this except to reboot
>     the machine.  I can't even login from another machine to kill the
>     Emacs process.
> 
>     I had experienced this problem under other scenarios as well.  I
>     don't remember when this occured first, but it was not very long
>     ago.  In one case show-paren-mode was turned on and I used
>     query-replace-regexp.

I think I've fixed this one, please tell me if it occurs again.

> 2.  Same problem when actually evaluating (while t (ding)).  No way to
>     stop the beeb except rebooting.

Can't reproduce that with `emacs -q --no-site-file' and
M-: (while t (ding)) RET on my GNU/Linux machine.
It's probably platform dependent.

> 3.  CVS Emacs crashes frequently.  So often that I usually use the
>     stable 21.3 version.  The backtraces from gdb look similar to the
>     one reported in
>     
>     
> <URL:http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2003-02/msg00118.html>

When did this start happening ?  Does it date back to February ?
Can you try and recompile with -DGC_CHECK_MARKED_OBJECTS ?
Also what do you mean by "look similar" ?
Can you show us a few of your backtraces and try give us an idea
of what you'd done before Emacs crashed ?

> 4.  The file-name completion problem reported on emacs-pretesters
> 
>        From: "Marshall, Simon" <address@hidden>
>        To: "'Emacs Pretesters'" <address@hidden>
>        Subject: Anyone seen a barf on TAB in minibuffer when a valid 
> completion exists?
>        Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:15:04 -0000

Could somneone resend it to a more appropriate place ?

> 5.  The redisplay problem reported on
> 
>     
> <URL:http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2003-06/msg00166.html>
> 
>     still exists.

Yes, I also see it sometimes.  But I don't know how to debug it and
I can't reproduce it on demand.  Have you found a recipe to reproduce
the problem ?


        Stefan