address@hidden: Re: Crashes at C-x 1]

[Eli Zaretskii]

Do the strings "eos::toolbar-run-icon" etc. ring a bell to someone
here?  What add-on package can this user be using, and can it be that
this add-on package is incompatible with Emacs 21?

TIA

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From: address@hidden
To: address@hidden (Eli Zaretskii)
Subject: Re: Crashes at C-x 1
Organization: Utterly lacking
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 17:14:46 +0000
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address@hidden (Eli Zaretskii) writes:

>> >>>>>>>>(At this point I hit C-x 1)
>> 
>> Breakpoint 2, x_error_quitter (display=0x84285d8, error=0xbffd1124)
>>     at xterm.c:12015
>> 
>> >>>>>>>>>> (At this point the window splits - the first is the backtrace
>> >>>>>>>>>> - second is the output from gdb)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Signaling: (error "Toolbar spec must be list or nil" #<buffer "xterm.c">)
>>   check-valid-instantiator(#<buffer "xterm.c"> toolbar)
>>   canonicalize-spec(#<buffer "xterm.c"> toolbar nil) byte-code("..."
>>   [specifier-type res2 noerror spec-list result rest nil throw 
>> cann-spec-list t
>>   signal error "Invalid list format" canonicalize-spec] 5)
>> 
>> canonicalize-spec-list((#<buffer "xterm.c"> [eos::toolbar-stop-at-icon
>>   gdb-break t "Stop at selected position"] [eos::toolbar-stop-in-icon 
>> gdb-break
>>   t "Stop in function whose name is selected"] [eos::toolbar-clear-at-icon
>>   gdbsrc-delete t "Clear at selected position"] [eos::toolbar-evaluate-icon
>>   gdb-print-c-sexp t "Evaluate selected expression; shows in separate XEmacs
>>   frame"] [eos::toolbar-evaluate-star-icon gdb-*print-c-sexp t "Evaluate
>>   selected expression as a pointer; shows in separate XEmacs frame"]
>>   [eos::toolbar-run-icon gdbsrc-run t "Run current program"]
>>   [eos::toolbar-cont-icon gdbsrc-cont t "Continue current program"]
>>   [eos::toolbar-step-into-icon gdbsrc-step t "Step into (aka step)"]
>>   [eos::toolbar-step-over-icon gdbsrc-next t "Step over (aka next)"]
>>   [eos::toolbar-up-icon gdbsrc-up t "Stack Up (towards \"cooler\" - less
>>   recently visited - frames)"] [eos::toolbar-down-icon gdbsrc-down t "Stack
>>   Down (towards \"warmer\" - more recently visited - frames)"]
>>   [eos::toolbar-fix-icon nil nil "Fix (not available with gdb)"]
>
> This seems to indicate that you are using some kind of add-on
> packages: I cannot see gdbsrc-down and eos::toolbar anywhere in the
> Emacs 21 Lisp files.
>
> What are these add-on packages?  Is it possible that they are
> incompatible with Emacs 21?  In particular, the error message "Toolbar
> spec must be list or nil" seems an indication of some fundamental
> incompatibility.

Sorry yet again for the direct replyy - I'm having no luck at all getting
through to the mail gateway either.

I'm not aware of running any add-on packages - there is nothing in .emacs
(not till I get this straight anyway!); and I get an error even if I run
emacs21 -q or emacs21 --no-site-file.  The Debian site start files don't
contain anything suspicious. But the eays of Emacs are mysterious to me
and there may be links in other ways?

The critical factor seems to be where I start emacs21.  From an xterm it
works nicely, and is solid.  From a menu/bbrun it crashes at the least
provocation.




Glyn
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