[Bug: 21.5-b28] Crash after server password prompt(ERC)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Thu Nov 8 00:08:05 EST 2007


FKtPp writes:
 > On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 03:54:30PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
 > > FKtPp writes:
 > > 
 > >  > > do you also have a lisp Backtrace show where in erc the crash happens?
 > >  > > 
 > >  > 
 > >  > Sorry, for now I don't know how to produce that from a XEmacs crash...
 > > 
 > > After sourcing .gdbinit and crashing, try lbt in gdb.

Thanks!  Unfortunately, it looks like this is a problem with the
garbage collector.  (If you don't know what that means, basically, we
periodically trawl through the list of *all* Lisp objects for ones
that there are no active pointers to, and return them to the list of
free memory blocks.  Only after that happens---typically long after
the bug bites---can a "freed Lisp_Object" error surface.)  Hard to
diagnose.

It may take a while to work through this. :-(




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