bug#24307: GNU Emacs 25.1.1 repeated system crash

[Andreas Röhler]

On 25.08.2016 16:38, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
> > Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 09:01:56 +0200
> >
> > GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.5) of 2016-08-22
> > Linux [...] 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3
> > (2016-07-02) i686 GNU/Linux
> >
> > Last days recent pretest caused two times a system freeze, restart required.
> > Unfortunately  couldn't reproduce with Emacs -Q
> > As this didn't happen last year --but sometimes the years before-- maybe
> > it's a valuable info though.
> > A crash happened after M-x edit-abbrevs RET, editing
> >
> > "gna"           0    "(< 0 (abs"
> > "wgna"           0    "(when (< 0 (abs"
> Can you provide more details about these system freezes?  Some
> questions:
>
>   . What exactly freezes?  Can you start a new application, or move the
>     mouse pointer, or ping the system from the net?
>
>   . What do you see in /var/log/messages around the time of these
>     freezes?
>
>   . When it freezes, do you see the disk I/O indicator lit, indicating
>     some disk I/O, or is the indicator off?
>
>   . Any other relevant details.
>
> Thanks.

Hi Eli,

system was completely frozen, no message, no mouse, no reaction at all.

At the time thunderbird was open too. Maybe it was caused by an attack 
from there.

Thanks,
Andreas