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Re: Emacs crashed after delete-frame


From: Stephen Berman
Subject: Re: Emacs crashed after delete-frame
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:17:30 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 08:00:24 +0100 "Jan D." <address@hidden> wrote:

> Stephen Berman wrote:
>
>>I was running Emacs in KDE, which can display several so-called
>>virtual desktops (or workspaces).  I had made a new Emacs frame with
>>`C-x 5 2' and moved it to a different virtual desktop from the one in
>>which the initial frame was located.  After finishing with the new
>>frame I typed `C-x 5 0' and not only did that delete the new frame,
>>but the initial frame was also gone, and Emacs dumped core.  I then
>>started Emacs under gdb and ran it with -Q and repeated the above
>>actions, and Emacs promptly segfaulted.  I repeated this two or three
>>times with the same result, and then suddenly I could not longer
>>reproduce it.  But as I was composing this report, I tried it again,
>>and Emacs crashed again.  So it appears to be reproducible, but not
>>reliably.  What is common to all the crashes is that they only
>>happened when the deleted frame and the initial frame were on
>>different virtual desktops.
>>  
>>
>
> There was a day or two this bug existed, but it was fixed yesterday.

I just updated and confirm that the crash doesn't occur any more (or
at least hasn't yet :-)  Thanks.  Out of curiosity, do you know or
have an idea why the above recipe sometimes induced a crash and
sometimes didn't?

Steve Berman





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