bug#12388: Emacs 24.2: Crash when maximizing frame on OS X 10.8

[Arne Schmitz]

Am 10.09.2012 um 20:17 schrieb Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>:

> 8 sep 2012 kl. 13:04 skrev Arne Schmitz <arne.spam@me.com>:
> 
>> when I recently upgraded to OS X 10.8, my Emacs started crashing when 
>> hitting the Zoom button (+) of the window / frame. This does not happen all 
>> the time, but very often. I use the builds from emacsformacosx.com. I have 
>> attached the OS X crash report for this situation.
>> 
>> The crash does not happen when I run emacs with empty init.el. My init.el 
>> loads quite a bit of stuff (cedet, ecb etc). But I cannot determine a single 
>> point where it starts to go bad. I guess there might be some feature in 
>> Emacs that triggers the crash that is used by one ore more of the packages I 
>> load. Maybe the attached backtrace helps.
> 
> It is definitly something in you startup file, as it crashes when running 
> window-configuration-change hook.
> 
> Start emacs and check the value of that variable.  It should give some clue 
> as to which package is the culprit.


Done. And by the way, I also tested with Emacs 24.2 from MacPorts. Has the same 
crash. Here is the value of the variable:

> window-configuration-change-hook is a variable defined in `C source code'.
> Its value is (linum-update-current t)
> Local in buffer JonesUtils.py; global value is nil

A quick test of doing "M-x linum-mode" after startup allowed me to zoom / 
maximize without crash. But I will have to do a bit more testing if linum-mode 
indeed triggers the behaviour.

Cheers,

Arne