Re: Pretest?

[Chong Yidong]

Giorgos Keramidas <address@hidden> writes:

>   FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Feb 27 01:25:46 EET 2007
>
> While I'm running the GTK+ version, however, I can crash Emacs in
> emacs_blocked_free() by following the steps outlined below:
>
> * Run Emacs inside gdb:
> * Run M-x gnus-agent-batch while my network connection is
>   disabled, and let it time-out.  It prompts me for going into
>   `off-line mode', to which I reply `yes'.
> * The next time I input C-z Emacs crashes with a backtrace of:

I can't seem to reproduce this on GNU/Linux (I don't have a FreeBSD
box handy).  It's strange that gnus-agent batch has anything to do
with it.  Have you been able to reproduce the C-z crash in any other
circumstance?  (It is better to get a recipe not involving gnus, since
that might depend on your newsgroup settings.)

In any case, the backtrace indicates that the crash occurs deep in
GTK/Glib.  If you look at what is occurring in the Emacs code, what
we're doing is perfectly innocuous: gdk_pixbuf_new_from_xpm_data() is
called on a static character array containing an XPM image.  So the
bug is probably in GTK or Glib, not in Emacs.