RE: Random bus error

[Doug Lewan]

A few things come to mind right away.

1. Run emacs -Q to get a pure, minimal emacs. 
   If that crashes, then it is indeed an issue restricted to emacs. (And see 
point 2.)
You probably still want your customizations, so
2. Run emacs under a debugger. 
   When there's a crash grab whatever stack information you can. 
   In gdb(1GNU) the magic incantation is `thread apply all bt'.
   Your debugger may be different.
3. (setq debug-on-error t) will show you certain extreme errors in your 
non-optimized .emacs.
   They may not be the immediate source of the crash, 
   but fixing them will eliminate distracting failures.

Hope this helps.

-- 
,Doug
Douglas Lewan
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> -----Original Message-----
> On
> Behalf Of blacknwhite77
> Subject: Random bus error
> 
> Every couple of days, unexpectedly and without any specific trigger
> emacs crashes with bus error message in terminal. I have an elaborate
> "non optimized" .emacs file.
> How should I go about debugging the issue?
> 
> I am using GNU Emacs 24.3.1, on Solaris operating system. GNU Emacs
> 24.3.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.10, GTK+ Version 2.10.13)