GNU bug report logs - #17771
24.3.91; SIGSEGV in cleanup_vector

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>

Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 09:14:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Merged with 16140, 16414, 17071, 17602

Found in versions 24.3.50, 24.3.91, 24.4.50

Fixed in version 24.3.93

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #92 received at 17771 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner <at> inode.at>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
Cc: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov <at> yandex.ru>, 17771 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Subject: Re: bug#17771: 24.3.91; SIGSEGV in cleanup_vector
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:54:55 +0200

On Mon, Jun 16 2014, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov <at> yandex.ru> writes:
>
>> On 06/16/2014 05:07 PM, Stephen Berman wrote:
>>
>>> With this I can no longer make Emacs crash with my recipe.  In fact,
>>> `C-g' has no effect: HELLO is displayed (after 30+ seconds), no matter
>>> how many times I type `C-g'.  Is this what you expect?
>>
>> No, 30+s is just unbelievable.
>
> If you have many fonts installed it can take a lot of time to find out
> that a character cannot be displayed.

So, expanding on Andreas' remark, perhaps just bisect HELLO to find out
if there is some particular script that causes trouble?

You could then try to use `set-fontset-font' to specify a particular
font for the problematic script or character range.

Wolfgang
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