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Re: crash in RC branch
From: |
Francesco Potorti` |
Subject: |
Re: crash in RC branch |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Dec 2002 23:10:58 +0100 |
> I had mistakenly visited a long (about 14MB) rmail file, and I hit C-g
> while Emacs was reading it. Since the connection is relatively slow,
> and I was forward typing, I do not know exactly what were the last
> commands. However, this reminds me of a similar crash that I
> experienced some months ago in a similar situation.
>
> Today I have no time to try to debug it, and I do not expect to have
> much in the next days. Here is a backtrace:
>
>What I can tell anything from the backtrace alone
>is that PT is screwed up, not between BEGV and ZV.
>I suspect that quitting out of insert-file-contents left the
>data inconsistent. However, I can't be sure none of your
>type-ahead was executed.
>
>If you can make this happen again, you could use recent_keys
>to see how much of your input actually got executed.
I still have the crashed emaca alive under gdb (in a `screen' window),
and perhaps during these holidays I'll find the time to look at it...
I tried to look at recent_keys, but wasn't able to parse its contents.