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28.0.50; Crush of X after choosing F10 -> Tutorial

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From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 43664 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43664: 28.0.50; Crush of X after choosing F10 -> Tutorial
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 17:12:24 +0300

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> [2020-09-30 17:09]:
> > Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 14:03:59 +0300
> > From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
> > Cc: 43664 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> > 
> > > In any case, please run Emacs under GDB, and when it crashes, type at
> > > GDB's prompt
> > > 
> > >   (gdb) thread apply all bt
> > > 
> > > and post here everything GDP prints.
> > 
> > It is hard to reproduce the bug, it could be also something related to
> > EXWM, I cannot reproduce it, I was myself surprised as I have not seen
> > crushes for years.
> 
> Then I suggest to run Emacs under GDB as a matter of routine, so that
> if and when it eventually crashes, you will be able to report the
> backtrace.  We need that backtrace to make progress with this problem.

I was thinking the same.

I am launching Emacs from .xinitrc with exec emacs or sometimes from
Window Managers.

What command line do you suggest? Is it like this:

gdb -ex run emacs

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