Crash using the unsupported vc package with 21.4.15

Ville Skyttä scop at xemacs.org
Mon Dec 6 13:37:54 EST 2004


On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 15:23 -0600, Ben Wing wrote:
> 
> > #1: Failed with "Wrong type argument: integerp, append"
> > #2: Failed with "Invalid function: 1"
> > #3: Failed with "Symbol's value as variable is void: 
> >     compilation-old-error-list"
> > #4: Failed with "Wrong type argument: integer-or-char-p, t"
> > #5: Crash, see attached bt.txt.
> > #6: Success!
> > 
> > I would appreciate if someone could have a look at this.  Let 
> > me know if you need more info and I'll try to provide.
> 
> Yuck.  Your backtrace is clear but unfortunately these bytecode problems are
> hard to diagnose.
> 
> What would help is
> 
> [1] Before opening the file the first time, put a breakpoint at signal_1().
> [2] When you get the first failure, get both a C and lisp backtrace and send
> them.  You can get a Lisp backtrace by calling debug_backtrace().

Sorry about the silence; I've recently upgraded to Fedora Core 3, and
haven't seen any crashes or weird behaviour yet (*knocks wood*).  I'll
keep an eye on things, and will get back to you if I manage to reproduce
the problems and upgrade my gdb skills to produce what you requested
above.




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