bug#72025: SEGFAULT when using corfu and lsp-mode with clangd

[Andrea Corallo]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Cc: 72025@debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>
>> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 04:06:02 -0400
>> 
>> Ravi D'Elia <ravijdelia@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > At unpredictable times while editing c++ files, emacs will segfault.
>> > I haven't been able to reproduce without lsp-mode, but with how
>> > unpredictable this is I don't think that necessarily means much.
>> > The problem exists with and without native compilation- this
>> > report assumes without.
>> >
>> > STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
>> > - Let '~/minimal' contain the attached init file
>> > - Start emacs with 'emacs --init-directory ~/minimal'
>> > - Open a c++ file
>> > - Edit it, taking care to type quickly and go back to edit within
>> >   words. I can usually get a crash within 10 minutes, but I haven't
>> >   been able to iterate enough to figure out exactly what is
>> >   happening. It's always while typing though, I think in response
>> >   to a keydown.
>> >
>> > Attached is the init file I used to reproduce this, and the backtrace.
>> > I had issues with the .gdbinit, which I will hopefully address when
>> > I get back from vacation.
>> >
>> 
>> Hi Ravi,
>> 
>> thanks for reporting, how did you produce the stack trace?  I ask
>> because without function names in it is not very useful.
>> 
>> Here we have some information on how to process backtraces when Emacs
>> crashes [1] and here [2] some info on how to run Emacs under gdb (and
>> produce the backtrace there).
>> 
>> Probably debugging Emacs under gdb would be the best option here.
>
> I think he already ran Emacs from GDB, but his Emacs is stripped of
> debugging symbols, so GDB couldn't display anything useful.  So the
> procedures you mention will not help.

Right, do you we if typically distros strip our binary and this is
probably the case?

  Andrea