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24.3; core dump on NetBSD in graphical mode on files in cvs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: tk <at> giga.or.at

Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 21:54:01 UTC

Severity: important

Found in version 24.3

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #44 received at 14982 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Thomas Klausner <tk <at> giga.or.at>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 14982 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 24.3; core dump on NetBSD in graphical mode on files in cvs
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 21:40:36 +0200

On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 04:07:58PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Sorry, I don't know what to suggest next,
> other than GDB.

Valery Ushakov <uwe <at> stderr.spb.ru> tracked it down.

It was a bug in the environ variable handling in NetBSD's libc that
interacted badly with emacs' loading/saving of environment states.

See the thread on NetBSD's current-users mailing list; perhaps start
reading at

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2013/09/08/msg023271.html

where Valery starts getting into details.

A fix was committed to NetBSD-current; I think the bug appeared after
NetBSD 5 and before NetBSD 6.

You can close this bug report. Thanks for your help!
 Thomas
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