Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot

[Ryan Johnson <ryan.johnson@cs.utoronto.ca>]

On 26/07/2013 10:50 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 7/26/2013 8:32 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Running 64-bit cygwin 1.7.22(0.268/5/3), with emacs-nox 24.3-4 inside
>> mintty 1.2-beta1-1, I keep getting seg faults and "Fatal error 6: 
>> Aborted"

>> It happens at strange times, invariably during I/O of some kind (either
>> keyboard input or output from some compilation window); I don't get the
>> impression it's fork-related. I don't know how to get a backtrace from
>> emacs, given the way any exception or signal always loses the "userland"
>> stack (suggestions welcome).
>>
>> Anyone else seeing this?
>
> This doesn't really answer your question since I don't use emacs-nox, 
> but I've been running 64-bit emacs-X11 and finding it very stable.  I 
> typically keep it running for several days at a time.
>
> You say you don't know how to get a backtrace from emacs.  I assume 
> you've installed emacs-debuginfo and run emacs under gdb. Are you 
> saying you can never get a backtrace after it crashes?
I do have the emacs-debuginfo. I meant that the stack dump didn't have 
any emacs frames in it (they were all cygwin1.dll), and my experience 
with cygwin/gdb is that once you've taken a signal or exception you lose 
the cygwin stack and just see a bunch of threads mucking around in 
various low-level Windows dlls.

I have tried attaching gdb to emacs and setting a breakpoint on abort(), 
but it didn't catch anything yet. I'm also hampered by gdb constantly 
getting confused, breaking partway into emacs, and having to 
detach/reattach it. I've started a new thread for that issue.

Ryan

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