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bug#5396: Something in splash page causes Emacs to crash?
From: |
Kenichi Handa |
Subject: |
bug#5396: Something in splash page causes Emacs to crash? |
Date: |
Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:11:40 +0900 |
In article <Pine.GSO.4.64.1001151908220.10853@mnc.zngu.hop.pn>, Joseph Tam
<tam@math.ubc.ca> writes:
> Under certain circumstances, emacs crashes on startup. I hope I have
> provided enough details for you to figure it out, or at least, so that
> you can refer me for more diagnostics.
> Using a X11 thin client, I could not recreate this problem by using
> emacs directly on the installed host, but rather, I ssh -X from an
> intermediary host, then ran emacs:
> thin client <- X11 -> intermediary host <- "ssh -X" -> emacs
[...]
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /nfs/build/Emacs/emacs-23.1/src/emacs
> Breakpoint 1, abort () at emacs.c:432
> 432 kill (getpid (), SIGABRT);
> (gdb) bt
> #0 abort () at emacs.c:432
> #1 0x0017ef30 in font_parse_xlfd (name=0x8 <Address 0x8 out of
> bounds>, font=-2138962232) at font.c:1131
> #2 0x001c8130 in xfont_list_pattern (display=0x7c5a80,
> pattern=0xffbfc198
> "-adobe-helvetica-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1", registry=540807248,
> script=540533584)
> at xfont.c:414
[...]
> (gdb) up
> #1 0x0017ef30 in font_parse_xlfd (name=0x8 <Address 0x8 out of bounds>,
> font=-2142319328) at font.c:1131
> 1131 font_assert (FONT_SPEC_P (font));
> (gdb) pr font
> The history is empty.
> (gdb) call debug_print(font)
> #<font-entity nil adobe helvetica x iso8859-1 medium r normal nil nil
> nil nil nil>
Hmm, it seems that the contents of `name' argument to
font_parse_xlfd is broken or invalid.
In the same gdb session, following the above, please do:
(gdb) up
(gdb) p buf
---
Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org