Re: small number of lines: X error

[Raphaël Berbain]

Gerd Moellmann writes:

> Could you please start emacs with the additional option
> 
>   -xrm "emacs.synchronous: true"
> 
> under GDB from the src/ directory of Emacs (because of the .gdbinit
> file there) and send me a backtrace?

Humm, interesting, maybe I should have looked more closely at
etc/DEBUG...  Here is the copy of the entire gdb session.  I don't
really know what you are looking for, and I am not familiar with Emacs
debugging, so please tell me if this is not what you expected.

--- begin gdb session ---

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This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu".
(gdb) cd local/emacs-21.1/src/emacs-21.1/src
Working directory /home/raph/local/emacs-21.1/src/emacs-21.1/src
 (canonically /home/raph/local/emacs-21.1-h/src/emacs-21.1/src).
(gdb) file emacs
Reading symbols from emacs...done.
(gdb) source .gdbinit
DISPLAY = :0.0
TERM = dumb
Breakpoint 1 at 0x80fd40a: file emacs.c, line 387.
Breakpoint 2 at 0x80d9741: file xterm.c, line 12037.
(gdb) set args -geometry 20x5 -q --no-site-file -xrm "emacs.synchronous: true"
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/raph/local/emacs-21.1/src/emacs-21.1/src/emacs 
-geometry 20x5 -q --no-site-file -xrm "emacs.synchronous: true"

Breakpoint 2, x_error_quitter (display=0x84aa530, error=0xbfffe4c8)
    at xterm.c:12037
(gdb) xbacktrace
0x81f577c "sit-for"
0x828116c "command-line-1"
0x8280224 "command-line"
0x827eb3c "normal-top-level"
(gdb) bt
#0  x_error_quitter (display=0x84aa530, error=0xbfffe4c8) at xterm.c:12037
#1  0x080d97d2 in x_error_handler (display=0x84aa530, error=0xbfffe4c8)
    at xterm.c:12055
#2  0x40208b6d in _XError () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
#3  0x4020721b in _XReply () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
#4  0x40202c17 in XSync () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
#5  0x40202ca0 in _XSyncFunction () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
#6  0x40204f20 in XCreateWindow () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
#7  0x080d40a1 in x_scroll_bar_create (w=0x84bf738, top=46, left=1, width=20, 
    height=0) at xterm.c:8979
#8  0x080d4787 in XTset_vertical_scroll_bar (w=0x84bf738, portion=40, 
    whole=796, position=0) at xterm.c:9228
#9  0x08073fa0 in redisplay_window (window=1212938040, just_this_one_p=0)
    at xdisp.c:10520
#10 0x08070859 in redisplay_windows (window=1212938040) at xdisp.c:9183
#11 0x0806fca2 in redisplay_internal (preserve_echo_area=1) at xdisp.c:8787
#12 0x080702a7 in redisplay_preserve_echo_area (from_where=2) at xdisp.c:9003
#13 0x08059c50 in sit_for (sec=120, usec=0, reading=0, display=1, 
    initial_display=1) at dispnew.c:6233
#14 0x08059db4 in Fsit_for (seconds=120, milliseconds=0, nodisp=405642940)
    at dispnew.c:6282
#15 0x08174231 in Ffuncall (nargs=2, args=0xbffff090) at eval.c:2662
#16 0x081ad6d7 in Fbyte_code (bytestr=942159384, vector=1210596460, 
    maxdepth=11) at bytecode.c:716
#17 0x081749ca in funcall_lambda (fun=1210594808, nargs=1, 
    arg_vector=0xbffff254) at eval.c:2847
#18 0x081743ae in Ffuncall (nargs=2, args=0xbffff250) at eval.c:2703
#19 0x081ad6d7 in Fbyte_code (bytestr=942150036, vector=1210586732, maxdepth=5)
    at bytecode.c:716
#20 0x081749ca in funcall_lambda (fun=1210585468, nargs=0, 
    arg_vector=0xbffff404) at eval.c:2847
#21 0x081743ae in Ffuncall (nargs=1, args=0xbffff400) at eval.c:2703
#22 0x081ad6d7 in Fbyte_code (bytestr=942146124, vector=1210581724, maxdepth=5)
    at bytecode.c:716
#23 0x081749ca in funcall_lambda (fun=1210581556, nargs=0, 
    arg_vector=0xbffff540) at eval.c:2847
#24 0x08174611 in apply_lambda (fun=1210581556, args=405642940, eval_flag=1)
    at eval.c:2766
#25 0x081735d9 in Feval (form=1480524020) at eval.c:2055
#26 0x081002b8 in top_level_2 () at keyboard.c:1254
#27 0x08171f7b in internal_condition_case (bfun=0x81002a4 <top_level_2>, 
    handlers=405739260, hfun=0x80fff84 <cmd_error>) at eval.c:1267
#28 0x081002eb in top_level_1 () at keyboard.c:1262
#29 0x08171a71 in internal_catch (tag=405700868, func=0x81002c0 <top_level_1>, 
    arg=405642940) at eval.c:1030
#30 0x081001f9 in command_loop () at keyboard.c:1223
#31 0x080ffd1e in recursive_edit_1 () at keyboard.c:950
#32 0x080ffe51 in Frecursive_edit () at keyboard.c:1006
#33 0x080fe8ca in main (argc=7, argv=0xbffffb84, envp=0xbffffba4)
    at emacs.c:1547
#34 0x4030c64f in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) cont
Continuing.
X protocol error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) on 
protocol request 1

Program exited with code 0106.
(gdb) 

--- end gdb session ---

Sorry about word wrap, I thought it was better to send this 'as is'.

-- 
Raphaël