Re: SIGABRT in `stream-of-directory-files'

[Michael Heerdegen]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> Do you have enabled some settings that disallow tracing processes?

Not that I knew, no.

> Does strace work?

Yes, strace works well.


Here is an example session from xterm - am I doing something wrong?

micha> cd software/emacs/src
src> gdb ./emacs
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Reading symbols from ./emacs...done.
SIGINT is used by the debugger.
Are you sure you want to change it? (y or n) [answered Y; input not from 
terminal]
DISPLAY = :0
TERM = xterm-256color
Breakpoint 1 at 0x55980d: file emacs.c, line 364.
Temporary breakpoint 2 at 0x57de7e: file sysdep.c, line 1077.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs 
Fatal error 11: Segmentation fault
Backtrace:
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x57f469]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x5598a1]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x57ec89]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x57ec5a]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x57ecc4]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x57ee80]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0(+0x12180)[0x7ffff12ca180]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x555543]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x555561]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x61618f]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x61621b]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x61644b]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x6034d0]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x5ff74f]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x603025]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x5ff74f]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x603025]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x602aca]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x604c80]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x604890]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x64cc41]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x60529c]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x6048d4]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x64cc41]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x60529c]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x6048d4]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x5fc8f7]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x604b87]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x604890]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x603cdb]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x5fcd7d]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x604cac]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x604890]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x64cc41]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x60529c]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x6048d4]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x6042a0]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x55ec02]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x6013b2]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x55e151]
/home/micha/software/emacs/src/emacs[0x600c94]
...
During startup program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
(gdb) bt
No stack.
(gdb) xbacktrace
You can't do that without a process to debug.
(gdb) 


Thanks,

Michael.