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Re: Crashes at C-x 1
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Crashes at C-x 1 |
Date: |
01 Nov 2001 18:28:25 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 |
>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
Eli> On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Glyn Millington wrote:
>> "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
>>
>> > Do you have a core file? If so, could you send the results
>> > of the "bt" command when you debug it with GDB?
>>
>> No core-dump file that I can see anywhere - does that mean it
>> isn't a "crash"? Forgive me, I'm new to this.
Eli> It might mean that Emacs exits (though it shouldn't have).
Eli> Let me turn the table and ask you why did you say it crashed?
Eli> Did you see anything abnormal when that happened, or did you
Eli> assume it crashed because it exited when you didn't expect it
Eli> to?
Eli> Crashes are normally accompanied by system messages like
Eli> "Program terminated abnormally. Core dumped." or something
Eli> like that.
It could also mean that the user is using a desktop system where
a) ulimit -c 0 is effective since the average desktop user is not
supposed to know what to do with core files.
b) his Emacs is started from a cute little icon on stderr messages
disappear into some black hole.
In fact, you have to fathom that the majority of systems nowadays are
set up like that per default.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
Email: David.Kastrup@t-online.de
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