Subject: Re: bug#19057: 24.4; "Fatal Error 10: Bus Error" for Athena and Motif builds on Debian Wheezy mipsel

From: "Jan D." <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 09:39:22 +0100

Hi.

> 15 nov 2014 kl. 04:02 skrev Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro <[email-masked]>:
> 
> This machine is a Lemote Yeeloong 8101B (Loongson 2F processor --
> MIPS64), running Debian Wheezy mipsel port.
> 
> When Emacs is configured with the option '--with-x-toolkit' set to
> either 'athena' or 'motif', it builds fine, but produces a graphically
> useless executable that fails to run on a X11 display showing the
> following cryptic error message:
> 
>  Fatal error 10: Bus error
>  Backtrace:
>  ./emacs[0x4ffec4]
>  Bus error
> 
> Surprisingly, if invoked with the '-nw' option or built with
> '--with-x-toolkit' set to 'gtk2', Emacs works perfectly well.
> 
> What can it be?  I'm waiting further instructions to debug the problem.

cd to the src directory.
% gdb emacs
(gdb) r -Q

and when it crashes

(gdb) bt full

Also read etc/DEBUG.

	Jan D.

> 
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