Description of problem: I tried to start emacs from my shell 'emacs -q' command and also with simple emacs command. In both cases it segfaulted. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): emacs-22.0.95-1.fc7 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install FC7 Test3 and yum update it to very latest. 2. Install emacs 3. Run 'emacs' or 'emacs -q' Actual results: Fatal error (11)Segmentation fault Expected results: I expected it to launch emacs editor Additional info: I dumped the core and gdb'ed it Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x00c90402 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) bt #0 0x00c90402 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0x06eb6366 in ?? () #2 0x080f40ff in ?? () #3 0x00006ae5 in ?? () #4 0x0000000b in ?? () #5 0x00000000 in ?? () (gdb)
(In reply to comment #0) > > I dumped the core and gdb'ed it Can you put the core somewhere where I can get it? Chip
Created attachment 153220 [details] core file here is compressed core file.
It looks like emacs is catching a signal before the auto-save-list-file-name has been initialized, and that is causing the segfault. A more interesting question is why is emacs getting a signal when you start with the "-q" switch. Could you run this and post the output to this bug? strace -e trace=exit_group -e signal=\!sigio emacs -q
here it comes. strace -e trace=exit_group -e signal=\!sigio emacs -q --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- (emacs:20950): 4-CRITICAL **: 4: assertion `\xff\xff\xff\xff' failed --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ Process 20950 detached
Could you try turning off SELinux and see if the bug reproduces? Chip
(In reply to comment #5) > Could you try turning off SELinux and see if the bug reproduces? > > Chip > yes SELinux is turned off. My machine is a Core 2 duo machine(64 bit) running 32-bit Fedora
I think this is very likely a duplicate of bug 239344; could you report your glibc version, please?
(In reply to comment #7) > I think this is very likely a duplicate of bug 239344; could you report your > glibc version, please? glibc-2.5.90-22, which I think is latest. I just reinstalled emacs rpms and gave it another try but I got segfault Fatal error (11)Segmentation fault
Could you try downgrading to glibc-2.5.90-21 and see if the problem goes away?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 239344 ***