On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 12:57:57 -0500 Adrian Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 1) Frequent crashes. I start Emacs.app from gdb and they never >> happen. I start it from the Finder and at random times it dies >> altogether. This happens at least 3 times a day, and I have lost >> work because of it. It's frustrating and I have seen no reports >> about it. Maybe it's my setup, but I don't know how to find the >> problem. AR> I use Emacs.app heavily as my daily emacs on Leopard and Tiger, and AR> don't get such crashes, though I do not rebuild from CVS that often. AR> If I get them I will fix them. Do you run Gnus? It seems to be the most frequent place I crash. AR> You should also make sure your ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist is up to AR> date -- path and environment differences might account for different AR> behavior btwn gdb (command-line) starts and Finder starts. Run .../ AR> Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/mac-fix-env, and logout/in. AR> Or, run ns-grabenv in your .emacs. OK, I'll run it that way and see how it goes. Why not put ns-grabenv in the default init for everyone? >> 3) >> >> epa-file will frequently refuse to load a GPG-encrypted file the >> first time, but will work on retry. It seems like it happens every >> second time (so the sequence is fail-succeed-fail-succeed-...) but >> I've seen it happen in other ways. This is really annoying because >> the cached passphrase is invalidated and must be retyped. I don't >> know if this is a known issue, but it's easy to duplicate for me with >> epa-mode set and epa-file loaded. It only happens on Mac OS X. I >> use the exact same setup on Ubuntu and it works perfectly. I don't >> think it's a GPG problem because from the command line it works every >> time and I use the same file on Ubuntu. AR> Does it happen when running emacs-23 on OS X under X11? When you say AR> "Ubuntu", do you mean Emacs.app under GNUstep there, or X11macs? X11. AR> One other question -- do you use "--enable-cocoa-experimental-ctrl-g" AR> in your configuration? This is labeled "experimental" for a reason AR> and needs further work to produce a stable emacs. No. I hope you and others figure out the right way to catch the reasons for these crashes. That would make reporting bugs much easier... Thanks for looking at this Ted ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emacs-app-dev- mailing list Emacs-app-dev-@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emacs-app-dev-
