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2.5.1; urgent - crashing . randomly and progressively

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: egeo <at> excite.co.jp
Cc: 25580 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25580: 2.5.1; urgent - crashing . randomly and progressively
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2017 10:40:58 +0200

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> From: "EG" <egeo <at> excite.co.jp>
> Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2017 16:12:49 +0900
> 
> thank you this was helpful but here it seems we are already running into some ambiguities or hurdles.
> 
> first, emacs seems to be under /usr/bin/  however, i have 
> 
> emacs        emacs-25.1   emacsclient 
> 
> this doesn't make too much sense to me. Whenever I enter `emacs' into the terminal version 25.1.1 starts up. So, I am unsure why emacs and emacs-25.1 show up. Any hints ?

They are both the same executable, probably hard-linked to the same
data on disk.  Check out what "ls -l" says about the number of links.

> If I type :
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> [t <at> localhost /]$ gdb /usr/bin/emacs
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> Reading symbols from /usr/bin/emacs...Reading symbols from /usr/bin/emacs...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
> (no debugging symbols found)...done.
> Missing separate debuginfos, use: dnf debuginfo-install emacs-25.1-3.fc25.x86_64

See the last line: you need to install additional packages to produce
information about the crash which will allow us to make proghress with
this problem.

Thanks.

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