Subject: Re: bug#12684: 24.1; Emacs crashing on OSX 10.6.8, perhaps related to org-mode

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:36:56 -0400

Ole Myren Røhne wrote:

> I'm now using 24.2.1, which doesn't crash but spins the beach ball on
> me, apparently hanging. Not sure how to get backtrace from forced
> exit...

Does it hang if you just run `emacs -Q' ?
If not, what are the minimum steps starting from that state to make it hang?
Can you interrupt it with ctrl-g?
If so, set debug-on-quit non-nil and post the resulting backtrace.

Does it help to try the latest nightly rather than 24.2?