ports/114993: Emacs causes SIGSEGV

Gardner Bell gbell72 at rogers.com
Mon Jul 30 12:10:08 UTC 2007


The following reply was made to PR ports/114993; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Gardner Bell <gbell72 at rogers.com>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/114993: Emacs causes SIGSEGV
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:33:45 -0400 (EDT)

 --- Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org> wrote:
 
 > On 2007-07-28 17:58, Gardner Bell <gbell72 at rogers.com> wrote:
 > > >Number:         114993
 > > >Category:       ports
 > > >Synopsis:       editors/Emacs causes SIGSEGV
 > 
 > > FreeBSD home.bsdca.com 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #3: Thu Jul
 > 26
 > > 15:29:51 EDT 2007     root at home.bsdca.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HOME
 > > i386
 > > 
 > > >Description:
 > > While editing any plain text file in emacs version 22.1.1 I receive
 > > the following SIGSEGV with partial backtrace.
 > > 
 > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
 > > [Switching to Thread 0x8351000 (LWP 100062)]
 > > 0x08182d6c in calloc ()
 > > (gdb) where
 > > #0  0x08182d6c in calloc ()
 > > #1  0x08183067 in free ()
 > > #2  0x081316c8 in abort ()
 > > #3  0x08183057 in free ()
 > > #4  0x288ad98b in g_slice_get_config () from
 > /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 > 
 > This looks similar to crashes I've reported to the emacs-devel
 > mailing
 > list for Emacs 22.  The crashes go away if onee rebuilds WITHOUT_GTK
 > for
 > me on FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT.  Can you try building the port without a
 > GTK+
 > interface and see if the crash persists?  If not, we have to collect
 > enough information for the upstream Emacs development team, to be
 > able
 > to fix this either with a local FreeBSD-specific patch or by fixing
 > the
 > Emacs 22.X source tree itself in the Emacs CVS repository.
 > 
 
 I just rebuilt emacs about an hour ago WITHOUT_GTK and it is working as
 intended now.  Should I file a big report to emacs-devel as well with
 the backtrace I submitted here or will I need to add debug symbols
 first?
 



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