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bug#38309: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session
From: |
Clément Lassieur |
Subject: |
bug#38309: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Nov 2019 10:43:37 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Maxim Cournoyer <address@hidden> writes:
> Hello Ludovic,
>
> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi Maxim,
>>
>> Maxim Cournoyer <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> There would be a couple more commits to include in the revert to undo
>>> the changes (one to the build system, others to adapt the renaming of
>>> the emacs-set-load-path phase for some packages:
>>
>> Oh indeed.
>>
>> I must say I haven’t looked closely at the changes nor at the reasons
>> for the regression, but IIUC, the regression is serious enough that we
>> should have a way to address it quickly.
>
> The regression only seems to affect the "restarting the session",
> e.g. logout then login, not the first boot, which means there's an
> (inconvenient) workaround available for single user systems.
Also, this assumes the users know about the bug. But some (most?) of
them won't know about it and will spend a lot of time (as I did) trying
to understand why their gnome-session crashes.
> I've been trying to reproduce in a VM to get a backtrace (if those
> affected by the problem could produce one, that'd help pinpoint the
> problematic call to PCRE and its origin), but that'll need some more
> time.
>
> If those affected judge the situation dire enough, I don't mind
> reverting the changes to the Emacs library loading mechanism for the
> time being.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Maxim
- bug#38309: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session, (continued)
- bug#38309: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session, Maxim Cournoyer, 2019/11/22
- bug#38309: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/11/23
- bug#38309: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session, Maxim Cournoyer, 2019/11/23
- bug#38309: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/11/25
- bug#38309: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session, Maxim Cournoyer, 2019/11/25
- bug#38309: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session, Clément Lassieur, 2019/11/26
- bug#38309: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/11/26
- bug#38309: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session, Maxim Cournoyer, 2019/11/27
- bug#38309: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session, Clément Lassieur, 2019/11/27
- bug#38309: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session, Clément Lassieur, 2019/11/27
- bug#38309: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session,
Clément Lassieur <=
- bug#38309: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session, Maxim Cournoyer, 2019/11/25
- bug#38309: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/11/26
- bug#38309: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session, Maxim Cournoyer, 2019/11/26
- bug#38309: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session, Clément Lassieur, 2019/11/27
bug#38309: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session, Leo Prikler, 2019/11/26