GNU bug report logs - #48337
Fwd: 28.0.50; Emacs crashing randomly (possibly minibuffer activity related)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee <at> linaro.org>

Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 19:32:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee <at> linaro.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 48337 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48337: Fwd: 28.0.50; Emacs crashing randomly (possibly minibuffer activity related)
Date: Fri, 14 May 2021 17:52:46 +0100
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Sadly not, testing with 780b1db126fcfdbb50da5c1acf24b3c6e614dd9f I got a
crash when I tried to switch buffer.



On Fri, 14 May 2021 at 17:31, Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de> wrote:

> Hello, Alex.
>
> On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 23:07:01 +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
>
> > Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de> writes:
>
> > > On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 07:51:20 +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
> > >> I can now recreate at will with a magit sequence (l o hackbox/ TAB)
> which
> > >> triggers a minibuffer re-size to accommodate the list of git branches:
>
> > > Could you possibly give us a precise recipe to reproduce this bug, and
> a
> > > GDB backtrace with Emacs compiled with CFLAGS='-O0 g3' (or similar)?
> So
> > > much of the needed information in your large dump post has been
> > > optimised away by the compiler.  Would you please also make sure that
> > > the Lisp backtrace is at the end of the GDB backtrace.  I think this
> > > should happen automatically if you have an Emacs .gdbinit in the
> > > directory where you start GDB from.
>
> I now understand what the bug was, and have just committed a patch which
> should have fixed it.  Could you please update your Emacs and test your
> bug scenario, and either confirm to me that the bug is fixed, or say what
> is still wrong.  If this has to wait until Monday that's OK, but please
> let us know that.
>
> Then, hopefully, we can close the bug.
>
> > The later rr dumps have more symbols but didn't have the benefit of the
> > Emacs' .gdbinit Lips backtrace. However I'm fairly confident it's being
> > triggered by doom-modeline:
>
> The actual trigger was something on buffer-list-update-hook.  That should
> now no longer cause a problem.
>
> [ .... ]
>
> > --
> > Alex Bennée
>
> --
> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
>


-- 
Alex Bennée
KVM/QEMU Hacker for Linaro
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