Re: 4 week-old pretest bugs

[Chris Moore]

Chris Moore <address@hidden> writes:

> It took 3 or 4 runs before I got the abort() to happen, but it still
> happened.  Told me something about a corrupted dwarf, which made me
> smile.

I tried a few experiments:

no crash - works fine:
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 * running the same build on the same debian sid machine under KDE

 * running the same build on a different debian sid machine under
   GNOME

 * running the same build on a different debian sid machine under
   XFCE4

abort()s:
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 * running the same build on the same debian sid machine with
   different GTK theme (tried Amaranth, Crux and Simple - all show the
   crash)

So it's something specific to GNOME on this laptop.  The laptop where
it crashes has a dual core processor:

  address@hidden:~$ grep model /proc/cpuinfo
  model         : 14
  model name    : Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2500  @ 2.00GHz
  model         : 14
  model name    : Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2500  @ 2.00GHz

The one where it doesn't is a 5 year old (single core) P4:

  (debian) address@hidden:~$ grep model /proc/cpuinfo
  model         : 2
  model name    : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.20GHz

The machine where it crashes is the same machine where I build Emacs
(using the "-j 2" flag to use both cores to build).