From unknown Fri Sep 05 20:55:58 2025 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.509 (Entity 5.509) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 From: bug#50339 <50339@debbugs.gnu.org> To: bug#50339 <50339@debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Status: master creashed in compact_small_strings Reply-To: bug#50339 <50339@debbugs.gnu.org> Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2025 03:55:58 +0000 retitle 50339 master creashed in compact_small_strings reassign 50339 emacs submitter 50339 rms@gnu.org severity 50339 normal thanks From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Thu Sep 02 12:04:38 2021 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Sep 2021 16:04:38 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41848 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mLpCf-0000Oj-Ob for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2021 12:04:37 -0400 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]:59944) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mLpCe-0000Ob-Je for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2021 12:04:36 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60202) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mLpCd-0007Ro-Qw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2021 12:04:36 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38574) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mLpCd-0007M1-Jy for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2021 12:04:35 -0400 Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mLpCc-0004ct-BK; Thu, 02 Sep 2021 12:04:34 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 From: Richard Stallman To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Subject: master creashed in compact_small_strings Message-Id: Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2021 12:04:34 -0400 X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Master from May 11 crashed in __memmove_ssse3, called from compact_small_strings. Is there any debugging I can do, before that gdb session is lost when my laptop next crashes? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Thu Sep 02 12:12:23 2021 Received: (at 50339) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Sep 2021 16:12:23 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41866 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mLpKB-0000ca-9S for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2021 12:12:23 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:46390) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mLpKA-0000cK-26 for 50339@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2021 12:12:22 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38950) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mLpK4-0005bQ-IV for 50339@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2021 12:12:16 -0400 Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1893 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mLpJy-0005XK-5L; Thu, 02 Sep 2021 12:12:10 -0400 Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2021 19:12:08 +0300 Message-Id: <83k0jzyn1j.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 02 Sep 2021 12:04:34 -0400) Subject: Re: bug#50339: master creashed in compact_small_strings References: X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 50339 Cc: 50339@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) > From: Richard Stallman > Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2021 12:04:34 -0400 > > Master from May 11 crashed in __memmove_ssse3, called from > compact_small_strings. Is there any debugging I can do, > before that gdb session is lost when my laptop next crashes? Can you tell why it crashed? Which of the arguments to memmove were bogus? From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Sep 04 13:18:36 2021 Received: (at 50339) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Sep 2021 17:18:36 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48513 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mMZJM-0002Bz-6E for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 13:18:36 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:43412) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mMZJK-0002Bl-1C for 50339@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 13:18:34 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38870) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mMZJE-0001iH-OY for 50339@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 13:18:28 -0400 Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mMZJE-0007Db-Jf; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 13:18:28 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 From: Richard Stallman To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <83k0jzyn1j.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 02 Sep 2021 19:12:08 +0300) Subject: Re: bug#50339: master creashed in compact_small_strings References: <83k0jzyn1j.fsf@gnu.org> Message-Id: Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2021 13:18:28 -0400 X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 50339 Cc: 50339@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Can you tell why it crashed? Which of the arguments to memmove were > bogus? s is nonzero. It is 0x555556fb4bc0. from is 0x5555570edcc0 Is s supposed to be > from? from->string is 0. Strange. size is 0x511be45adaa18398 nbytes is 0x511be45adaa1838d That value of size was used to calculate from_end and to_end. I am guessing how to find out in GDB what the data at s says nbytes ought to be. But s->u.s.size is 6. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Sep 04 13:36:28 2021 Received: (at 50339) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Sep 2021 17:36:28 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48528 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mMZae-0002gE-IX for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 13:36:28 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:45294) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mMZac-0002g0-Ra for 50339@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 13:36:27 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39326) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mMZaX-0008GH-KW for 50339@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 13:36:21 -0400 Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1918 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mMZa8-0004lP-D7; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 13:36:10 -0400 Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2021 20:35:56 +0300 Message-Id: <83mtosuttv.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Sat, 04 Sep 2021 13:18:28 -0400) Subject: Re: bug#50339: master creashed in compact_small_strings References: <83k0jzyn1j.fsf@gnu.org> X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 50339 Cc: 50339@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: 50339@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2021 13:18:28 -0400 > > s is nonzero. It is 0x555556fb4bc0. > from is 0x5555570edcc0 > > Is s supposed to be > from? No, I think it's supposed to be equal to from. > from->string is 0. Strange. Yes, because s = from->string != 0. > size is 0x511be45adaa18398 > nbytes is 0x511be45adaa1838d > > That value of size was used to calculate from_end and to_end. Look like bogus values. Very strange. Does anyone have any idea how this could happen? From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sun Sep 05 23:08:18 2021 Received: (at 50339) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Sep 2021 03:08:18 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51280 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mN4za-0000Mk-IA for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2021 23:08:18 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:38962) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mN4zY-0000MW-Tq for 50339@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2021 23:08:17 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52100) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mN4zT-0006NH-Ps for 50339@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2021 23:08:11 -0400 Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mN4zT-00005b-EB; Sun, 05 Sep 2021 23:08:11 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 From: Richard Stallman To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <83mtosuttv.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 04 Sep 2021 20:35:56 +0300) Subject: Re: bug#50339: master creashed in compact_small_strings References: <83k0jzyn1j.fsf@gnu.org> <83mtosuttv.fsf@gnu.org> Message-Id: Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2021 23:08:11 -0400 X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 50339 Cc: 50339@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > That value of size was used to calculate from_end and to_end. > Look like bogus values. > Very strange. > Does anyone have any idea how this could happen? It could be a random hardware failure. Such things have happened. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Mon Sep 06 01:42:59 2021 Received: (at 50339) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Sep 2021 05:42:59 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51405 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mN7PH-0006Xz-96 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 01:42:59 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:57324) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mN7PF-0006Xj-8B for 50339@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 01:42:57 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55954) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mN7P9-0001DK-Qv for 50339@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 01:42:51 -0400 Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4247 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mN7P2-0006Ur-SK; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 01:42:45 -0400 Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 08:42:49 +0300 Message-Id: <83sfyis1ie.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Sun, 05 Sep 2021 23:08:11 -0400) Subject: Re: bug#50339: master creashed in compact_small_strings References: <83k0jzyn1j.fsf@gnu.org> <83mtosuttv.fsf@gnu.org> X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 50339 Cc: 50339@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: 50339@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2021 23:08:11 -0400 > > > Look like bogus values. > > > Very strange. > > > Does anyone have any idea how this could happen? > > It could be a random hardware failure. > Such things have happened. Yes, that's one thing that crossed my mind. Did you have hardware problems on this machine in the past? From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Mon Sep 06 23:17:50 2021 Received: (at 50339) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Sep 2021 03:17:50 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54964 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mNRcL-0007xg-SY for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 23:17:50 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37498) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mNRcJ-0007xJ-NQ for 50339@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 23:17:48 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34944) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNRcE-0000NN-Dw for 50339@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 23:17:42 -0400 Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNRcB-0007G6-VY; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 23:17:42 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 From: Richard Stallman To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <83sfyis1ie.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 06 Sep 2021 08:42:49 +0300) Subject: Re: bug#50339: master creashed in compact_small_strings References: <83k0jzyn1j.fsf@gnu.org> <83mtosuttv.fsf@gnu.org> <83sfyis1ie.fsf@gnu.org> Message-Id: Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 23:17:39 -0400 X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 50339 Cc: 50339@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Yes, that's one thing that crossed my mind. Did you have hardware > problems on this machine in the past? Yes, though I don't know if they involved incorrect execution on the CPU. I have no evidence for that specific kind of problem. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Tue Sep 07 02:14:40 2021 Received: (at 50339) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Sep 2021 06:14:40 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55280 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mNUNT-0004Pm-Sq for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 02:14:40 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35152) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mNUNR-0004PZ-Vi for 50339@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 02:14:38 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38562) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNUNM-0006BP-Od for 50339@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 02:14:32 -0400 Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3854 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNUN0-0006TJ-J1; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 02:14:10 -0400 Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 09:14:19 +0300 Message-Id: <83v93cq5dw.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Mon, 06 Sep 2021 23:17:39 -0400) Subject: Re: bug#50339: master creashed in compact_small_strings References: <83k0jzyn1j.fsf@gnu.org> <83mtosuttv.fsf@gnu.org> <83sfyis1ie.fsf@gnu.org> X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 50339 Cc: 50339@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: 50339@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 23:17:39 -0400 > > > Yes, that's one thing that crossed my mind. Did you have hardware > > problems on this machine in the past? > > Yes, though I don't know if they involved incorrect execution on the CPU. > I have no evidence for that specific kind of problem. A memory-related problem could also explain that. From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Tue Sep 07 23:27:42 2021 Received: (at 50339) by debbugs.gnu.org; 8 Sep 2021 03:27:42 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58145 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mNoFS-00052c-D1 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 23:27:42 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37660) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mNoFQ-00052Q-US for 50339@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 23:27:41 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48856) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNoFJ-0005cB-QK for 50339@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 23:27:35 -0400 Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNoF3-00086u-7j; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 23:27:17 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 From: Richard Stallman to: eliz@gnu.org, 50339@debbugs.gnu.org In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Mon, 06 Sep 2021 23:17:39 -0400) Subject: Re: bug#50339: master creashed in compact_small_strings References: <83k0jzyn1j.fsf@gnu.org> <83mtosuttv.fsf@gnu.org> <83sfyis1ie.fsf@gnu.org> Message-Id: Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 23:27:17 -0400 X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 50339 Cc: rms@gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Alas, my machine crashed and that session was lost. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sun Sep 19 12:05:25 2021 Received: (at 50339) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Sep 2021 16:05:25 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39630 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mRzJl-0001r2-AK for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2021 12:05:25 -0400 Received: from mail-pl1-f179.google.com ([209.85.214.179]:42833) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mRzJk-0001qn-5L for 50339@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2021 12:05:24 -0400 Received: by mail-pl1-f179.google.com with SMTP id l6so4667701plh.9 for <50339@debbugs.gnu.org>; Sun, 19 Sep 2021 09:05:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:from:in-reply-to:references:user-agent :mime-version:date:message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=jl4RwYQPmIYiLteFjNlP6PWVaw8GycJRs3bxexBoIbc=; b=rxfDEtvu5Q9vBqXrmuwIjQCJwJb7zxizRvbFA5gqh2nSbaj2hxQ5L+PKYDJ4qNFW0j OPnt90X/1r4GyucAUcLxOMIub7qyhuNETB9whBewUnD68vdxOUAyBesZ2n6iaVRsi/wu BSuocmFJdwGnznP022OjtlJjz3yofoS/58EJAf/eeG0npJCIiOrIpTzGouheQEfZiOvQ 3UDy4+skbrfg1KcVlpBu5z6FZvHWjDIhl0na06PqrjHCW7tdI6N9k+JCls2HfdXtmmDQ uhuE30ulMLywaY3Wk8c/GwRiKyT2LJzm7cDLTN0puGCk3ko19KIPnOiDm5BB9jmBcuST xjsA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532IWggF5aYNAKOlMF31LuTGEK5gFB+8IDEGjaWQgx3/VW8BpECW CRFFLu4ytvJG0iOkg+NFj3WBbAEz0/kanD+FnD0= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJxs5NRGW3tcyFautIQDjjkT2rJsE1+1s47DjHdd0095TfxCY+qR1aNZ09IjZjZNS1KtUvwsjcvM8BD2f1YgWTs= X-Received: by 2002:a17:90a:7c42:: with SMTP id e2mr32692086pjl.132.1632067518318; Sun, 19 Sep 2021 09:05:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Sun, 19 Sep 2021 09:05:17 -0700 From: Stefan Kangas In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 07 Sep 2021 23:27:17 -0400") References: <83k0jzyn1j.fsf@gnu.org> <83mtosuttv.fsf@gnu.org> <83sfyis1ie.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 09:05:17 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: bug#50339: master creashed in compact_small_strings To: Richard Stallman Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Spam-Score: 0.5 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 50339 Cc: eliz@gnu.org, 50339@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -0.5 (/) Richard Stallman writes: > Alas, my machine crashed and that session was lost. Should this bug remain open, or does that preclude us making any further progress here? I can see that you discussed that this might have been caused by a hardware issue. From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Mon Sep 20 19:48:31 2021 Received: (at 50339) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Sep 2021 23:48:31 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44305 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mST1S-0003Pc-Rr for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2021 19:48:31 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37278) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mST1Q-0003PM-Mq for 50339@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2021 19:48:29 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51080) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mST1L-0001Zz-B9; Mon, 20 Sep 2021 19:48:23 -0400 Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mST1K-0000js-QS; Mon, 20 Sep 2021 19:48:22 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 From: Richard Stallman To: Stefan Kangas In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Sun, 19 Sep 2021 09:05:17 -0700) Subject: Re: bug#50339: master creashed in compact_small_strings References: <83k0jzyn1j.fsf@gnu.org> <83mtosuttv.fsf@gnu.org> <83sfyis1ie.fsf@gnu.org> Message-Id: Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 19:48:22 -0400 X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 50339 Cc: 50339@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Alas, my machine crashed and that session was lost. > Should this bug remain open, or does that preclude us making any further > progress here? I can't do any further debugging on the process which crashed. So I can't contribute any further for the moment. Whether to close the ticket isup to you. > I can see that you discussed that this might have been > caused by a hardware issue. That was just speculation, of course. But I could not see how obeying the instructions in that code could have produced this result. Perhaps a bug in a signal handler could have done it. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Tue Sep 21 03:41:44 2021 Received: (at 50339-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Sep 2021 07:41:44 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44749 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mSaPQ-0005SR-Ls for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2021 03:41:44 -0400 Received: from mail-pf1-f173.google.com ([209.85.210.173]:43755) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mSaPP-0005SC-Dl for 50339-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2021 03:41:43 -0400 Received: by mail-pf1-f173.google.com with SMTP id c1so15747172pfp.10 for <50339-done@debbugs.gnu.org>; Tue, 21 Sep 2021 00:41:43 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:from:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=F+lFI92gbWIhauAZCrSPjJBTFy8lgb/b4tUWYLvWW8M=; b=un/ch3wodnGWqvO9EpVE9JQsfw87VDRLPY9qr9Q4hS6g0qrvYP2vWAPuERKJTKrNvs K3npy4unI301s5ytVV8SuyYDZgCtNhifLtAJVsUMqYfd2AUeoc4HXQUagvK1O5KcymjR 3AeQrcSzaSFTmzJhCTFkE1oPwbrfEiEePFZ7V0wteu9dQwWOITDYSmIMQqJzdJt3tf2G bBGBg4UGcD+fIZ6vUxE+Sdd0xv7SpallmMYr/KuggzYSamzyyPaQG2jPA5xwIy5uykBv dUg5JP0XqiBIt9NljnZKNusIHVh5ugtO5C7cjGAuWraAzehX7yH7EOmCvJw8RAPNNwgw lbpg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530qOHohrFNAz9kd5AwsVi8vr2MjKGhv+GDqXl7/BS8JlJSnyMBi EadHuf3yeL57MuhF8/vY54jG4OUOXtnGbJRKNts= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJyBYZ/01B2OeCwYapbWtRla+hg6Eb7oYQO6lqc7GS2IFOToawvZ4paAwXGSMH4wKKprFyNziWoi/OBGmar3S0Y= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6a00:1586:b0:447:b30c:4a65 with SMTP id u6-20020a056a00158600b00447b30c4a65mr9978519pfk.0.1632210097593; Tue, 21 Sep 2021 00:41:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Tue, 21 Sep 2021 00:41:37 -0700 From: Stefan Kangas In-Reply-To: References: <83k0jzyn1j.fsf@gnu.org> <83mtosuttv.fsf@gnu.org> <83sfyis1ie.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 00:41:37 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: bug#50339: master creashed in compact_small_strings To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Spam-Score: 0.5 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 50339-done Cc: 50339-done@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -0.5 (/) Richard Stallman writes: > > > Alas, my machine crashed and that session was lost. > > > Should this bug remain open, or does that preclude us making any further > > progress here? > > I can't do any further debugging on the process which crashed. > So I can't contribute any further for the moment. > Whether to close the ticket isup to you. > > > I can see that you discussed that this might have been > > caused by a hardware issue. > > That was just speculation, of course. But I could not see how obeying > the instructions in that code could have produced this result. > > Perhaps a bug in a signal handler could have done it. OK, let's close it for now then, under the assumption that there is not much we can do to make any progress here given that the session was lost. I suppose that our best chance to catch it, if it is indeed a bug in our code, would be for someone to run into this crash again. For better or for worse. From unknown Fri Sep 05 20:55:58 2025 Received: (at fakecontrol) by fakecontrolmessage; To: internal_control@debbugs.gnu.org From: Debbugs Internal Request Subject: Internal Control Message-Id: bug archived. Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 11:24:06 +0000 User-Agent: Fakemail v42.6.9 # This is a fake control message. # # The action: # bug archived. thanks # This fakemail brought to you by your local debbugs # administrator