Re: Emacs 24 crashes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Thorsten <quintfall@googlemail.com>
> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:04:19 +0200
> 
> Emacs aborting itself is especially annoying when you have a setting
> with one Emacs daemon but lots of Emacs clients, i.e. when using WMs
> like tmux or stumpwm to manage the Emacs windows. 

It is _always_ annoying.  At least Emacs auto-saves everything, so you
don't lose too much.

> > The way to find out why is to run Emacs under a debugger.  Then, when
> > Emacs aborts, the debugger will kick in, and you will be able to poke
> > around for reasons.
> 
> That would be something like:
> 
> ,---------------
> | gdb run emacsd
> `---------------
> 
> ?

No, I don't think so.  (emacsd is a shell script, right?)  The best
way is to start Emacs as you normally would, then find out the PID
(process ID) of the running Emacs process, and type "gdb -p PID" from
a shell prompt.  GDB will attach itself to Emacs; then, when GDB shows
its prompt, type "continue", hit Enter, and use Emacs as usual.