GNU bug report logs - #38417
26.3; crash when opening help for tramp-password-prompt-regexp

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Maximilian <max.geismann <at> yahoo.de>

Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 16:37:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo, notabug

Found in version 26.3

Done: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Maximilian <max.geismann <at> yahoo.de>
Cc: 38417 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38417: 26.3; crash when opening help for tramp-password-prompt-regexp
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 10:48:04 +0200

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

Hi Maximilian,

>> Whenever I try to describe-variable tramp-password-prompt-regexp, Emacs
>> crashes (even with -q).
>
> I suspect this crash is related to fonts installed on your system.
> (It doesn't crash on my system, FWIW.)  The documentation of this
> variable includes a few non-ASCII strings, and I'm guessing Emacs
> crashes trying to display one of them.
>
> Unfortunately, your Emacs binary seems to be stripped, so the
> backtrace is not useful, and I have no way of confirming my guess.

Could you pls check as Eli has suggested? Otherwise, I don't know how to
continue.

Best regards, Michael.
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