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#38309
Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session
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Reported by: "Alex Griffin" <a <at> ajgrf.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 02:27:01 UTC
Severity: serious
Done: clement <at> lassieur.org (Clément Lassieur)
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #49 received at 38309 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Hello Ludovic,
>
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hi Maxim,
>>
>> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> skribis:
>>
>>> There would be a couple more commits to include in the revert to undo
>>> the changes (one to the build system, others to adapt the renaming of
>>> the emacs-set-load-path phase for some packages:
>>
>> Oh indeed.
>>
>> I must say I haven’t looked closely at the changes nor at the reasons
>> for the regression, but IIUC, the regression is serious enough that we
>> should have a way to address it quickly.
>
> The regression only seems to affect the "restarting the session",
> e.g. logout then login, not the first boot, which means there's an
> (inconvenient) workaround available for single user systems.
Also, this assumes the users know about the bug. But some (most?) of
them won't know about it and will spend a lot of time (as I did) trying
to understand why their gnome-session crashes.
> I've been trying to reproduce in a VM to get a backtrace (if those
> affected by the problem could produce one, that'd help pinpoint the
> problematic call to PCRE and its origin), but that'll need some more
> time.
>
> If those affected judge the situation dire enough, I don't mind
> reverting the changes to the Emacs library loading mechanism for the
> time being.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Maxim
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