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Questions tagged [crash]

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Better debugging of crashing Emacs?

Although Emacs (24.3.93.1) runs fine if launched from the Finder, if the terminal version is launched: /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -nw Emacs crashes with: Fatal error 11: Segmentation fault[1] 51512 abort …
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How do I stop Emacs micro-stuttering and high CPU utilization caused by background calls to git?

Using Emacs on Windows, I experiences issues due to background invocations of git.exe. The same issues might apply on Linux, though the more light-weight process calling might make them unnoticable. Symptoms Occassionally, Windows will report that…
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cannot `lossage-size` a large number

emacs-28.2; win 11 $ emacs -Q If I use most-positive-fixnum: (lossage-size most-positive-fixnum) Emacs will emit: Value must be >= 100 in the echo area. If I use a modest number: (lossage-size (/ most-positive-fixnum 10)) Emacs will crash…
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Emacs crash because of special utf-8 character

I am trying to open a file that contains the following utf-8 character: ⛺ Unfortunately, my emacs does really not appreciate, and immediately crashes. I have tried to comment out all my init.el (and actually I've even renamed my .emacs_d folder to…
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Mac OS Catalina random crash

I've been experiencing a weird problem. Ever since updating to catalina my emacs crashes at random intervals. It seems that there is no rule (or I cannot see it) to when it happens. The frequency is quite high but there is no specific thing I do…
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Starting emacs in daemon mode freezes, emacsclient is not able find a socket

I cannot launch the emacs daemon anymore. I do not know what triggered this. When entering emacs -Q --daemon -v I get only the following and nothing happen. Warning: due to a long standing Gtk+…
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Emacs 26.3 crash on network/process interaction on macOS

Here's the story: I'm using macOS 10.15.1 and Emacs ver. 26.3 for macOSX from the eponymous site. Some time ago, maybe after 10.15.2 update, I started to experience frequent Emacs crashes, occurring mainly in the start of the session, whenever I try…
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Emacs 26.1 crash on server-start with stale auth files when server-use-tcp enabled

I've been experiencing a crash since upgrading to Emacs 26.1 and MacOS 10.13.4. It happens when running server-start (which is in my .emacs file), and a stale server auth file exists from a previous Emacs instance. Reproducing it is easy: Start…
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Emacs Segmentation fault

Since 1 month ago, I have been experiencing this issue. I already tried to launch emacs with emacs --with-x-toolkit=lucid But the problem persists, anyone experiencing the same issue? Fatal error 11: Segmentation fault Backtrace:…
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Launching in daemon mode crashes emacs while loading configuration from .org file

I've been using literate programming using org-mode for my initialization file. I've a init.el which loads a org file converts it to .el and uses it as startup file. Here is my configuration files. When starting with --daemon option emacs crashes if…
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Fresh install 24.5 on Windows 10 bash shell Linux 16.04 crashing on package manager

Fairly new to emacs, seemed super awesome for writing a lot of different styles. Got it working just fine on my desktop using the new bash terminal - 14.04 - on my desktop. Did the exact same setup of emacs on 14.04 on my laptop ( just installing…
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How to debug seemingly random crashes of AucTeX?

My Emacs crashes seemingly randomly. Is there a way to view the Messages buffer after it crashed? Or is there another standard way of approaching this problem? I'd like to see an error message so that I can start pinpointing the source of the…
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Crash when opening a file with non-ascii characters - how to diagnose?

Running MacOSX GUI emacs installed via homebrew. Whenever I open a regular text file that contains non-ASCII characters, Emacs immediately crashes. These files have no header lines specifying encoding or other settings. Works fine in terminal-mode…
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Emacs crashing on OSX, no crash log file

My Emacs started to crash a lot without modifying .emacs or installing anything new. I can replicate the steps (using Helm, Projectile) by this: helm-projectile then I enter a query quickly and hit backspace I have a crash. According to GNU Emacs…
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How to make emacs not crash when converting binary file to UTF-8

When I run revert-buffer-with-coding-system [RET] UTF-8 Emacs crashes. This is the file I'm trying to revert. \0 …
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