GNU bug report logs - #57878
Emacs native compilation on startup can crash the system

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From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu>
To: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen <at> fastmail.net>
Cc: 57878 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#57878: Minimal reproducible setup
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2022 20:15:50 -0400

Hello Konrad and Liliana,

On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 5:16 AM Konrad Hinsen
<konrad.hinsen <at> fastmail.net> wrote:
>
> I did one more test: run native-compile by hand on each elisp file in
> the package ido-completing-read+. Works fine.
>
> The next question that I consider relevant: is this an upstream (Emacs)
> issue, or an issue created by packaging in Guix? That's not easy to
> answer.

I just got bit by this and lost a bunch of time trying to get my
system stable again.  I am leaning towards this being an upstream
issue as it is also affecting Debian users [0].  Unfortunately, they
do not seem to have found a solution.  I haven't checked the Emacs bug
tracker/mailing lists so I don't know if upstream is working on or has
a fix for this.  I will be sticking to a pre-commit
dbcba75c0e96d8eb2b0bf9dbb3a49d15b38f80d2 version of Guix for the time
being.  There may be many more people affected that have not reported
in.  Is disabling native compilation an option on the table?

- Dave

[0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1017817

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