Re: Fatal error (6).Aborted (core dumped)

[Anthony Goreham]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> wrote:

> What happens if you invoke Emacs with "emacs -q --no-site-file", and
> then turn on these highlighting features from within Emacs?  What
> happens if you evaluate the customizations in your .emacs from a
> running session invoked as mentioned above?

The crash still occurs in those circumstances.  Also, I just found,
when I invoke isearch.  So the following is enough to provoke the error:

% emacs -q --no-site-file
C-s <SPC>
 
> It doesn't help, unfortunately, since your binary appears to be
> stripped (no debug info), so the debugger cannot tell anything
> interesting.  Can you produce a backtrace from an unstripped binary?

OK, this time I did it from the src/ directory.

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Core was generated by `/dnld/progs/emacs-21.2/src/emacs -q'.
Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.7...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.7
Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4
Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/i686/libm.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/libm.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/i686/libc.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_files.so.2
#0  0x40249a01 in __kill () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
Environment variable "DISPLAY" not defined.
TERM = linux
Breakpoint 1 at 0x80cd4aa: file emacs.c, line 387.
Breakpoint 2 at 0x80b4cc8: file xterm.c, line 12018.
(gdb) run -q &>emacs.log
Starting program: /dnld/progs/emacs-21.2/src/emacs -q &>emacs.log

Breakpoint 1, abort () at emacs.c:387
387       kill (getpid (), SIGABRT);
(gdb) continue
Continuing.

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0x40249a01 in __kill () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
(gdb) continue
Continuing.

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0x40249a01 in __kill () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
(gdb) backtrace
#0  0x40249a01 in __kill () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#1  0x80cd49c in fatal_error_signal (sig=6) at emacs.c:354
#2  <signal handler called>
#3  0x40249a01 in __kill () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#4  0x80cd4ba in abort () at emacs.c:387
#5  0x815ce51 in tparam1 (string=0x83d3145 "\e[4%p1%dm", 
    outstring=0x843a9e8 
"\e[4@(\3664@1\ncy_GB.iso88591\t\t\t\t\tcy_GB.ISO8859-1)", len=0, up=0x0, 
left=0x0, argp=0xbfffe3f0) at tparam.c:298
#6  0x815cab1 in tparam (string=0x83d3145 "\e[4%p1%dm", outstring=0x0, len=0, 
    arg0=6, arg1=2, arg2=2, arg3=-1073748904) at tparam.c:105
#7  0x8095cb2 in turn_on_face (f=0x8283040, face_id=11) at term.c:2114
#8  0x80942ca in write_glyphs (string=0x8413d78, len=63) at term.c:1114
#9  0x8055367 in update_frame_line (f=0x8283040, vpos=1) at dispnew.c:5677
#10 0x8054277 in update_frame_1 (f=0x8283040, force_p=0, inhibit_id_p=0)
    at dispnew.c:5140
#11 0x8052062 in update_frame (f=0x8283040, force_p=0, inhibit_hairy_id_p=0)
    at dispnew.c:3857
#12 0x8065dc2 in redisplay_internal (preserve_echo_area=1) at xdisp.c:8910
#13 0x806606f in redisplay_preserve_echo_area (from_where=8) at xdisp.c:9044
#14 0x80d99a3 in detect_input_pending_run_timers (do_display=1)
    at keyboard.c:9448
#15 0x814bce2 in wait_reading_process_input (time_limit=30, microsecs=0, 
    read_kbd=268435455, do_display=1) at process.c:2686
#16 0x80560aa in sit_for (sec=30, usec=0, reading=1, display=1, 
    initial_display=0) at dispnew.c:6247
#17 0x80d1641 in read_char (commandflag=1, nmaps=2, maps=0xbffff240, 
    prev_event=405189420, used_mouse_menu=0xbffff278) at keyboard.c:2491
#18 0x80d7c2e in read_key_sequence (keybuf=0xbffff3a0, bufsize=30, 
    prompt=405189420, dont_downcase_last=0, can_return_switch_frame=1, 
    fix_current_buffer=1) at keyboard.c:8180
#19 0x80cfd7b in command_loop_1 () at keyboard.c:1440
#20 0x8120034 in internal_condition_case (bfun=0x80cfa7c <command_loop_1>, 
    handlers=405285740, hfun=0x80cf6c4 <cmd_error>) at eval.c:1267
#21 0x80cf962 in command_loop_2 () at keyboard.c:1245
#22 0x811fbed in internal_catch (tag=405247348, 
    func=0x80cf944 <command_loop_2>, arg=405189420) at eval.c:1030
#23 0x80cf8f0 in command_loop () at keyboard.c:1224
#24 0x80cf4a5 in recursive_edit_1 () at keyboard.c:950
#25 0x80cf5bf in Frecursive_edit () at keyboard.c:1006
#26 0x80ce5c3 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbffff974, envp=0xbffff980)
    at emacs.c:1547
#27 0x40237507 in __libc_start_main (main=0x80cd9a4 <main>, argc=2, 
    ubp_av=0xbffff974, init=0x804cdf0 <_init>, fini=0x8162a9c <_fini>, 
    rtld_fini=0x4000dc14 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffff96c)
    at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:129
(gdb) continue
Continuing.

Program terminated with signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
The program no longer exists.
(gdb) quit

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Anthony Goreham       The Queen's College, Oxford OX1 4AW, UK