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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Message #8 received at 38417 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Maximilian <max.geismann <at> yahoo.de>
Cc: 38417 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38417: 26.3;
 crash when opening help for tramp-password-prompt-regexp
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 21:15:36 +0200

> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 13:06:43 +0100
> From: Maximilian via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> 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.
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