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Emacs crashes when on a network drive

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From: andy.ling <at> quantel.com
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Emacs crashes when on a network drive
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:26:30 +0000

I have recently updated to emacs 23.1.1 from emacs 21.3 and I'm finding it 
keeps crashing.

I am running under Window XP. I have the emacs binaries on a network drive
and I suspect it crashes if there is a problem talking to the network 
drive.

The easiest way to get it to crash is to hibernate the PC with emacs
running. When I restore from hibernate emacs crashes.

I had been running 21.3 like this for some years without a problem. So
this is something new to 23. I seem to remember a similar problem many
years ago which was fixed by changing a compile flag.

Regards

Andy Ling


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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: andy.ling <at> quantel.com
Cc: 5032 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs crashes when on a network drive
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:12:17 -0500

> I have recently updated to emacs 23.1.1 from emacs 21.3 and I'm
> finding it keeps crashing.

> I am running under Window XP. I have the emacs binaries on a network
> drive and I suspect it crashes if there is a problem talking to the
> network drive.

> The easiest way to get it to crash is to hibernate the PC with emacs
> running. When I restore from hibernate emacs crashes.

Could you run Emacs in a debugger and obtain a backtrace for the crash?

Message #11 received at 5032 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: andy.ling <at> quantel.com
To: cyd <at> stupidchicken.com
Cc: andy.ling <at> quantel.com, 5032 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs crashes when on a network drive
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 23:19:05 +0000

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-----Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com> wrote: -----

>> I have recently updated to emacs 23.1.1 from emacs 21.3 and I'm
>> finding it keeps crashing.
>
>> I am running under Window XP. I have the emacs binaries on a
>network
>> drive and I suspect it crashes if there is a problem talking to the
>> network drive.
>
>> The easiest way to get it to crash is to hibernate the PC with
>emacs
>> running. When I restore from hibernate emacs crashes.
>
>Could you run Emacs in a debugger and obtain a backtrace for the
>crash?
>

I can't do anything until next week, but even then I'm not sure
how easy it will be. As I said, the way I provoke it is to hibernate
the PC with emacs running. When I restore from hibernation, emacs just
"disappears". There is no "crash" message.

It has been suggested and it sounds familiar from when this happened
before, it is to do with a link flag that tells Windows to load the
whole binary rather than relying on the original file when swapping.

I suspect if it is running inside s debugger, the debugger will be
handling the way the binary is swapped out.

Regards

Andy Ling


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Message #18 received at 5032 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: andy.ling <at> quantel.com
Cc: cyd <at> stupidchicken.com, 5032 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs crashes when on a network drive
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:16:33 +0200

andy.ling <at> quantel.com writes:

>>> I have recently updated to emacs 23.1.1 from emacs 21.3 and I'm
>>> finding it keeps crashing.
>>
>>> I am running under Window XP. I have the emacs binaries on a
>>network
>>> drive and I suspect it crashes if there is a problem talking to the
>>> network drive.
>>
>>> The easiest way to get it to crash is to hibernate the PC with
>>emacs
>>> running. When I restore from hibernate emacs crashes.
>>
>>Could you run Emacs in a debugger and obtain a backtrace for the
>>crash?
>>
>
> I can't do anything until next week, but even then I'm not sure
> how easy it will be. As I said, the way I provoke it is to hibernate
> the PC with emacs running. When I restore from hibernation, emacs just
> "disappears". There is no "crash" message.

Are you still seeing this behaviour with a current Emacs?

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Message #23 received at 5032 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: andy.ling <at> quantel.com
Cc: cyd <at> stupidchicken.com, 5032 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5032: Emacs crashes when on a network drive
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 05:31:43 +0100

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

>> I can't do anything until next week, but even then I'm not sure
>> how easy it will be. As I said, the way I provoke it is to hibernate
>> the PC with emacs running. When I restore from hibernation, emacs just
>> "disappears". There is no "crash" message.
>
> Are you still seeing this behaviour with a current Emacs?

More information was requested, but no response was given within a few
months, so I'm closing this bug report.  If the problem still exists,
please reopen this bug report.

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