Re: emacs-w32 24.5.1: Crashes with --daemon and in "About Emacs"

[Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>]

On 5/18/2015 8:34 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 5/18/2015 1:57 AM, Martin Anantharaman wrote:
>> Ken,
>>
>> so that we do not get side-tracke by differences in our emacs-customizations
>> I now re-produced the error in a "clean" environment, i.e. I unset
>> ALTERNATE_EDITOR and did the following:
>
> Did you also make sure that EMACS_SERVER_FILE was not set?
>
>> $ emacs --daemon -Q
>> Starting Emacs daemon.
>>
>> $ emacsclient .shrc
>> Waiting for Emacs...
>> *ERROR*: Could not open file: /dev/cons1
>
> So this time emacsclient did not complain that it couldn't find the socket.  But
> why is it trying to open /dev/cons1?  Are you running these commands in a
> Windows console rather than a Cygwin Terminal (mintty)?  If so, please try it in
> a Cygwin Terminal.
>
>> $ emacsclient .shrc
>> Waiting for Emacs...
>>
>> (emacsclient returns immediately, task-manager shows there is no more
>> emacs-w32 process and there is a new stackdump in the working directory)
>>
>> $ cat emacs-w32.exe.stackdump
>> Stack trace:
>> Frame     Function  Args
>> 017075E4  61033210 (00000558, 0000EA60, 000000A4, 01707654)
>> 01707714  610EF12F (00000012, 00000000, 0170776C, 6110E4AF)
>>
>> To get some more insight I tried to do the same on another machine running
>> Arch Linux (though with emacs 24.3 under LXDE) and guess what: At any number
>> of calls to emacsclient as above a (emacs-)window is opened in the TERMINAL
>> from which I run emacsclient (though a new desktop-window is opened when
>> emacsclient is called with the -c option) - which is not working in my
>> Cygwin/Windows combination giving the error "*ERROR*: Could not open file:
>> /dev/cons1" and crashing emacs on the next c.
>>
>> So what happends when you call emacs and then emacsclient in the same order
>> as shown?
>
> I get the Linux behavior that you just described.
>
>> Regarding the 2. problem (crash on About Emacs) it happens exactly the same
>> way when I call emacs with emacs -Q and immediately open About Emacs. I will
>> get the debuginfo and try to see where/why it is crashing when I have a
>> little spare time - I was just hoping that the stackdump I had attached
>> before might actually allow you to localize the error.
>
> The two addresses shown in the stackdump (in the "Function" column) are both in
> cygwin1.dll.
>
> $ addr2line -e /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/cygwin1.dbg 61033210
> /usr/src/debug/cygwin-2.0.2-1/winsup/cygwin/exceptions.cc:1540
>
> $ addr2line -e /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/cygwin1.dbg 610EF12F
> /usr/src/debug/cygwin-2.0.2-1/winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc:714
>
> This doesn't tell us anything about what was happening in emacs.

And here too I recommend starting emacs from a Cygwin Terminal if that isn't 
what you've been doing.

Ken

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