Bug 1366037

Summary: emacs crashes sporadically at startup
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Frank Hirtz <fhirtz>
Component: emacsAssignee: Jan Synacek <jsynacek>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version: 7.2   
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2018-03-02 09:03:03 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Frank Hirtz 2016-08-10 20:21:17 UTC 
Created attachment 1189793 [details]
corefile from crash

Description of problem:

A client is seeing instability in emacs where it sporadically crashes for users and has captured a core from a crash to be evaluated. Jan had a look in bz 1308518 since it looked likely to be under that umbrella, but he indicated that this was something else. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
emacs-24.3-18.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
The client sporadically sees crashes at startup. As a note, the client is running gnome3 over vnc as their setup.


Additional info:
Core attached.
Comment 2 Jan Synacek 2017-07-11 12:15:56 UTC 
I've set up a VM with Gnome+VNC, but I can't reproduce this. The core is not that helpful on the current RHEL-7.3 as to closer reveal what might be wrong.

If you still encounter this, please provide more information + ideally try to reproduce this using 'emacs -Q'.