Re: Emacs crashes

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Below are all the C-level changes in the past 14 days that are not
> specific to Windows or MacOS, and that are before the point at which
> Handa reports his Emacs was compiled.  

I had a crash on Mar 6, two on Mar 8, and another on Mar 12.

I don't know if it incidental, but just before the first crash, I had
put (server-start) into my .emacs and used it via emacsclient in
connection with some of those crashes.  

The other change I made is that before Mar 6, I hadn't used an
up-to-date CVS emacs very intensively for some weeks, but on that day,
and the days after I updated and used it quite intensively...

So I don't know exactly when the crashes started ...  but it may be
something done before Mar 1.

>                                        There are not very many of
> them.

True, but if you go back another week, there are some quite fundamental
changes in the way X errors are handled -- which I think is more likely
to be the cause of these problems...

>
> So that means people could try reverting one of these changes and see
> if the crashes stop.  If we try each of them, and record which ones
> have been tried, we should find which one it is.
>
> If you try reverting one of these changes and still get a crash,
> please put a note into src/ChangeLog saying "Checked DATE YOURNAME"
> on a line just after the header line.
>
> It would also be useful if people make a checkout of the March 1 sources
> and edit with them for a while, to verify that they indeed do not crash.
>

I will do that.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk