GNU bug report logs - #20890
[cairo] crash on startup

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Robert Marshall <robert <at> capuchin.co.uk>

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:28:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 33974

Found in versions 26.1.90, 25.0.50

Fixed in version 26.2

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #42 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ari Roponen <ari.roponen <at> gmail.com>
Cc: vekazanov <at> gmail.com, 33974 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33974: 26.1.90;
 emacs-26 branch Emacs crashes in daemon mode when calling helm-M-x or
 a eval-expression
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2019 11:57:39 +0200
merge 20890 33974
close 33974
thanks

> From: Ari Roponen <ari.roponen <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: Vladimir Kazanov <vekazanov <at> gmail.com>,  33974 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2019 10:43:00 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> Configured using:
> >>  'configure --with-modules --with-cairo'
> >> 
> >
> > Can you try building without Cairo?  Does the crash happen there?
> >
> 
> I can reproduce the crash in emacs-26 branch but not in the master
> branch. The problem happens with Cairo. After cherry-picking the
> following commits from the master branch, I cannot reproduce the the
> crash any more:
> 
> 1233bcb0a78755ec4f3a925b84c15b1c6f715b1c ("Work around GC+Cairo bug")
> d02fd482fbeaf6ed551e78223b538495cb0c3541 ("Improve GC+Cairo workaround")

Thanks, I cherry-picked these two to the emacs-26 branch, and I'm
closing the bug.




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