From unknown Thu Aug 14 21:45:43 2025 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.509 (Entity 5.509) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 From: bug#16570 <16570@debbugs.gnu.org> To: bug#16570 <16570@debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Status: 24.2; emacs ediff-directories segmentation fault Reply-To: bug#16570 <16570@debbugs.gnu.org> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 04:45:43 +0000 retitle 16570 24.2; emacs ediff-directories segmentation fault reassign 16570 emacs submitter 16570 "S. Gimeno Garcia" severity 16570 normal tag 16570 moreinfo thanks From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Mon Jan 27 11:48:32 2014 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Jan 2014 16:48:32 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38297 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W7pMM-00063P-Pv for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:48:31 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51352) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W7jzE-00029c-W3 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 06:04:17 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7jz7-0007oZ-37 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 06:04:16 -0500 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40, RECEIVED_FROM_WINDOWS_HOST autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:41001) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7jz6-0007oV-Vr for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 06:04:09 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53056) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7jz0-0005K8-L8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 06:04:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7jyn-0007mi-Gu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 06:04:02 -0500 Received: from mailhost.dlr.de ([129.247.252.33]:37013) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7jyn-0007mU-7Q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 06:03:49 -0500 Received: from DLREXHUB01.intra.dlr.de (172.21.152.130) by dlrexedge02.dlr.de (172.21.163.101) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.174.1; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:43:10 +0100 Received: from [129.247.184.119] (129.247.184.119) by dlrexhub01.intra.dlr.de (172.21.152.151) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.174.1; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:43:09 +0100 Message-ID: <52E6383D.9030503@dlr.de> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:43:09 +0100 From: "S. Gimeno Garcia" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Subject: 24.2; emacs ediff-directories segmentation fault Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows 7 or 8 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::11 X-Spam-Score: -4.1 (----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:48:28 -0500 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -4.1 (----) Hi, During a ediff-directories session, comparing subdirectories recursively, and after some successfully "ediff" of files in the directories, emacs suddenly crashes with a segmentation fault. This behavior occurred often lately, but unfortunately I haven't succeeded to reproduce the crash in a controlled way to provide more detailed information. Best regards, Sebastian In GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.4) of 2012-10-10 on build20 Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Mon Jan 27 12:31:36 2014 Received: (at 16570) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Jan 2014 17:31:36 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38347 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W7q23-0007BT-JL for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:31:35 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:54727) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W7q21-0007BJ-LY for 16570@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:31:34 -0500 Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7q20-0001a7-Ge; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:31:32 -0500 From: Glenn Morris To: "S. Gimeno Garcia" Subject: Re: bug#16570: 24.2; emacs ediff-directories segmentation fault References: <52E6383D.9030503@dlr.de> X-Spook: ASIO ARPA Reno AVIP ASDIC RSA codes AUTODIN X-Ran: rf3tr3uta!bIHst?:;9y(8d6)mst3>Kpb2<'9CMEnAK~~fy0cXME}dA!>rWH1"egSJ~hWI X-Hue: cyan X-Debbugs-No-Ack: yes X-Attribution: GM Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:31:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <52E6383D.9030503@dlr.de> (S. Gimeno Garcia's message of "Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:43:09 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Score: -5.5 (-----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 16570 Cc: 16570@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -5.5 (-----) "S. Gimeno Garcia" wrote: > In GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.4) > of 2012-10-10 on build20 Does SUSE provide a debug package for Emacs, or can you build Emacs yourself? If the latter, please fetch the 24.3 (note not 24.2) sources, configure emacs using CFLAGS="-O0 -g3" ./configure [...] make cd src # You may need to modify "auto-load safe-path" in ~/.gdbinit - see # etc/DEBUG in the Emacs sources. gdb ./emacs run and if/when it crashes, send the result of "bt full" here. Without a backtrace, or reproducible crash recipe, nothing can be done. Thanks. From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Tue Jan 28 12:09:04 2014 Received: (at 16570) by debbugs.gnu.org; 28 Jan 2014 17:09:04 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39463 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W8C9o-0005R1-9X for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 12:09:04 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:49289) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W8C9n-0005Qs-De for 16570@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 12:09:03 -0500 Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W8C9n-0004tR-5F for 16570@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 12:09:03 -0500 Resent-Message-ID: <21223.58415.8829.542144@gnu.org> Resent-Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 12:09:03 -0500 Resent-From: Glenn Morris Resent-To: 16570@debbugs.gnu.org Bcc: rgm@gnu.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, RECEIVED_FROM_WINDOWS_HOST,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Message-ID: <52E7B2F6.7040707@dlr.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <52E6383D.9030503@dlr.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows 7 or 8 X-Received-From: 129.247.252.32 Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:39:02 +0100 From: "S. Gimeno Garcia" To: Glenn Morris Subject: Re: bug#16570: 24.2; emacs ediff-directories segmentation fault X-Bogosity: no, spamicity=0.031964, v1.2.1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 X-Spam-Score: -5.5 (-----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 16570 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -5.5 (-----) Hi, Thanks for the rapid response! Actually, I cannot reproduce the error again. Between last friday and yesterday, the emacs crash happened about 4 or 5 times, always during a ediff-directories session. However, I cannot reproduce in a controlled way the conditions that lead to the crash, so I cannot send you any backtrace, or reproducible crash recipe :( If I find a way to do it, I'll come back to you. Cheers, Sebastian On 01/27/2014 06:31 PM, Glenn Morris wrote: > "S. Gimeno Garcia" wrote: > >> In GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.4) >> of 2012-10-10 on build20 > Does SUSE provide a debug package for Emacs, or can you build Emacs yourself? > If the latter, please fetch the 24.3 (note not 24.2) sources, configure > emacs using > > CFLAGS="-O0 -g3" ./configure [...] > make > > cd src > # You may need to modify "auto-load safe-path" in ~/.gdbinit - see > # etc/DEBUG in the Emacs sources. > gdb ./emacs > run > > and if/when it crashes, send the result of "bt full" here. > > Without a backtrace, or reproducible crash recipe, nothing can be done. > > Thanks. > From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Dec 26 07:59:23 2015 Received: (at 16570) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Dec 2015 12:59:23 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36931 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aCoRO-0003DJ-QL for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 07:59:23 -0500 Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:37521) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aCoRN-0003DA-80 for 16570@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 07:59:21 -0500 Received: from 2.150.58.24.tmi.telenormobil.no ([2.150.58.24] helo=mouse) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1aCoR0-00079c-7x; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 13:58:58 +0100 From: Lars Ingebrigtsen To: "S. Gimeno Garcia" Subject: Re: bug#16570: 24.2; emacs ediff-directories segmentation fault References: <52E6383D.9030503@dlr.de> <52E7B2F6.7040707@dlr.de> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 13:58:57 +0100 In-Reply-To: <52E7B2F6.7040707@dlr.de> (S. Gimeno Garcia's message of "Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:39:02 +0100") Message-ID: <87d1tt5pta.fsf@gnus.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-MailScanner-ID: 1aCoR0-00079c-7x X-Netfonds-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Netfonds-MailScanner-From: larsi@gnus.org MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1451739539.26104@3hyz9x5b4/UwNnxrhXHZlQ X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 16570 Cc: Glenn Morris , 16570@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) "S. Gimeno Garcia" writes: > Actually, I cannot reproduce the error again. Between last friday and > yesterday, the emacs crash happened about 4 or 5 times, always during > a ediff-directories session. > However, I cannot reproduce in a controlled way the conditions that > lead to the crash, so I cannot send you any backtrace, or reproducible > crash recipe :( > If I find a way to do it, I'll come back to you. More information was requested, but no response was given within a few months, so I'm closing this bug report. If the problem still exists, please reopen this bug report. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Dec 26 07:59:25 2015 Received: (at control) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Dec 2015 12:59:25 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36933 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aCoRR-0003DY-5T for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 07:59:25 -0500 Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:37527) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aCoRO-0003DI-Jr for control@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 07:59:22 -0500 Received: from 2.150.58.24.tmi.telenormobil.no ([2.150.58.24] helo=mouse) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1aCoR3-00079j-F2 for control@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 13:59:01 +0100 Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 13:59:00 +0100 Message-Id: <87bn9d5pt7.fsf@gnus.org> To: control@debbugs.gnu.org From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Subject: control message for bug #16570 X-MailScanner-ID: 1aCoR3-00079j-F2 X-Netfonds-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Netfonds-MailScanner-From: larsi@gnus.org MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1451739541.70918@2ynNTDKiVQW2ul7nsbWRaA X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: control X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) close 16570 From unknown Thu Aug 14 21:45:43 2025 Received: (at fakecontrol) by fakecontrolmessage; To: internal_control@debbugs.gnu.org From: Debbugs Internal Request Subject: Internal Control Message-Id: bug archived. 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