Re: xemacs-beta crashs frequently
Malcolm Agnew wrote:
> Malcolm> Is there anything I should do to help track this
bug.
>
> C-h i d m xemacs RET m bugs RET
>
> then
>
> M-x report-xemacs-bug
I did this but I have had no response. In other letters in this group, there
are often staements like "(Well, actually, Gnus is implicated in all
currently known crashes except for a few caused by Motif)", My bug has
nothing to do with Gnus or Motif or Lisp. I just edit a file (say Makefile),
scroll in the file for a few seconds and CRASH.
Looking at your previous post:
From: malcolm.agnew(a)t-online.de (malcolm agnew)
Subject: [Bug: 21.5-b16] xemacs-beta-16 frequent crashes
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 09:48:51 +0100
Message-Id: <200401090848.i098mp3B006345(a)mambo3.malcolm.net>
I notice:
Using Motif dialog boxes.
Using Motif native widgets.
I wouldn't be so sure that your bug has nothing to do with Motif (it
may not; I build with Motif dialogs, and it doesn't seem to cause any
problems). If Motif is present, then it gets involved in event
processing, which means that it can affect just about anything.
As I said before "Is there anything I should do to help track
this bug?" I did
not mean just a full report of my installation which you told me how to
provide but how I can actively help, i.e. start up options, etc.
For a crash, the starting point is a gdb backtrace. If you can't get
that, then it's likely to be pretty hard to track down. Even if you
can get a backtrace, if it implicates Motif, the response is likely to
be "don't use Motif".
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Glynn Clements <glynn.clements(a)virgin.net>