BUG REPORT: Emacs is still aborting sporadically

[Jani Averbach]

Dear Emacs Bug-Team, this is continuing saga for this bug report:
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-03/msg00049.html

However, my operating system has been changed after previous report,
so I think that there would be some value with this new report.

I also have two other suggestions.

My current OS is Gentoo GNU/Linux, and CVS-Emacs is still aborting
sporadically (so I think that this narrow a little bit down a case that
this is something to do about my system). It is hard to say any reason for
aborting, I am still editing mainly LaTeX files when emacs is aborting
itself. However I can't see any specific reason for that behaviour.

The Emacs was compiled without any special optimization (with it's own
default: -O2 -g), and the source has been taken from cvs
at 2003-03-15T13:56:00+0200.

There is also backtrace at the end of this email.

My second suggestion:

At the moment, when you are setting and savind emacs's options via
customize interface, emacs won't follow symbolic links, but overwrite
them. It would be nice if it would follow them.

For example I have following setup:
/raid/3/jaa/.emacs -> .emacs-jaa/dot-emacs
when .emacs-jaa and hence dot-emacs are under a version control.


My third concern:

Few days ago I was editing my LaTeX-files in utf-8 mode, and I am almoust
99% sure, that emacs truncated my file at two different place, effectively
corrupting them (in finnish there are few compound characters).  However,
I did not  try to reproduce this, so I cannot be absolutely sure about
that. Just for record, if somebody else is reporting something similar.

Could there be something that I has been done wrong?


Respectfully,
Jani


core file size        (blocks, -c) unlimited
data seg size         (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size             (blocks, -f) unlimited
max locked memory     (kbytes, -l) unlimited
max memory size       (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                    (-n) 1024
pipe size          (512 bytes, -p) 8
stack size            (kbytes, -s) unlimited
cpu time             (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes            (-u) 2048
virtual memory        (kbytes, -v) unlimited

gcc (GCC) 3.2.2
GNU ld version 2.13.90.0.18 20030121
ldconfig (GNU libc) 2.3.1
XFree 4.3.0


$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        257088     252664       4424          0      28760      84008
-/+ buffers/cache:     139896     117192
Swap:      1024088      28900     995188



In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2003-03-15 on eowyn.sillanpaa.jyu.fi
configured using `configure '--prefix=/opt/emacs/cvs' '--with-xpm' '--with-x' 
'--with-x-toolkit=athena' 'CC=gcc''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: fi_FI.ISO8859-1
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Recent input:
M-x b u <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> r
e p o <tab> t <tab> <backspace> r <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Loading tooltip...done
Loading /raid/3/jaa/.emacs-jaa/CC-NewClass.el (source)...done
Loading time...done
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
Loading regexp-opt...done
Making completion list...
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call-interactively: Text is read-only
Making completion list...
Loading emacsbug...done


#0  0x402ff611 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0x402ff611 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x080dac81 in fatal_error_signal (sig=25455) at 
/raid/3/jaa/data/sw/emacs/src/emacs.c:379
#2  <signal handler called>
#3  0x402ff611 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
#4  0x080dacd6 in abort () at /raid/3/jaa/data/sw/emacs/src/emacs.c:412
#5  0x08126820 in mark_object (argptr=0x0) at 
/raid/3/jaa/data/sw/emacs/src/alloc.c:4871
#6  0x0812785e in mark_maybe_object (obj=1484913444) at 
/raid/3/jaa/data/sw/emacs/src/alloc.c:3440
#7  0x08125465 in mark_memory (start=0xbfffe910, end=0xbffff55c) at 
/raid/3/jaa/data/sw/emacs/src/alloc.c:3577
#8  0x081254bb in mark_stack () at /raid/3/jaa/data/sw/emacs/src/alloc.c:3820
#9  0x08125a1b in Fgarbage_collect () at 
/raid/3/jaa/data/sw/emacs/src/alloc.c:4190
#10 0x0813a6be in Ffuncall (nargs=4, args=0xbfffead0) at 
/raid/3/jaa/data/sw/emacs/src/eval.c:2680
#11 0x0813a2f8 in call3 (fn=407551676, arg1=405796644, arg2=405796956, 
arg3=948615052) at /raid/3/jaa/data/sw/emacs/src/eval.c:2581
#12 0x080d3e2f in x_get_local_selection (selection_symbol=405796644, 
target_type=405796956, local_request=0)
    at /raid/3/jaa/data/sw/emacs/src/xselect.c:429
#13 0x080d4594 in x_handle_selection_request (event=0xbfffebc0) at 
/raid/3/jaa/data/sw/emacs/src/xselect.c:810
#14 0x080e1fe0 in swallow_events (do_display=1) at 
/raid/3/jaa/data/sw/emacs/src/keyboard.c:4148
#15 0x0816ac00 in wait_reading_process_input (time_limit=0, microsecs=0, 
read_kbd=268435455, do_display=1)
    at /raid/3/jaa/data/sw/emacs/src/process.c:4120
#16 0x080e1820 in kbd_buffer_get_event (kbp=0x8529988, 
used_mouse_menu=0xbffff0d8) at /raid/3/jaa/data/sw/emacs/src/keyboard.c:3824
#17 0x080e0073 in read_char (commandflag=1, nmaps=4, maps=0xbffff0a0, 
prev_event=405530660, used_mouse_menu=0xbffff0d8)
    at /raid/3/jaa/data/sw/emacs/src/keyboard.c:2788
#18 0x080e6b70 in read_key_sequence (keybuf=0xbffff200, bufsize=30, 
prompt=405530660, dont_downcase_last=0,
    can_return_switch_frame=1, fix_current_buffer=1) at 
/raid/3/jaa/data/sw/emacs/src/keyboard.c:8585
#19 0x080dd8cd in command_loop_1 () at 
/raid/3/jaa/data/sw/emacs/src/keyboard.c:1502
#20 0x081389bd in internal_condition_case (bfun=0x80dd750 <command_loop_1>, 
handlers=405627268, hfun=0x80dd300 <cmd_error>)
    at /raid/3/jaa/data/sw/emacs/src/eval.c:1351
#21 0x080dd5fb in command_loop_2 () at 
/raid/3/jaa/data/sw/emacs/src/keyboard.c:1290
#22 0x0813853a in internal_catch (tag=0, func=0x80dd5e0 <command_loop_2>, 
arg=405530660) at /raid/3/jaa/data/sw/emacs/src/eval.c:1112
#23 0x080dd5b1 in command_loop () at 
/raid/3/jaa/data/sw/emacs/src/keyboard.c:1269
#24 0x080dd0b2 in recursive_edit_1 () at 
/raid/3/jaa/data/sw/emacs/src/keyboard.c:985
#25 0x080dd1c9 in Frecursive_edit () at 
/raid/3/jaa/data/sw/emacs/src/keyboard.c:1041
#26 0x080dba68 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff7d4) at 
/raid/3/jaa/data/sw/emacs/src/emacs.c:1659
#27 0x402eb9c4 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb)

-- 
Jani Averbach