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Emacs 27.1 binary Mac OS build crashes on Big Sur (11.x)

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From: Victor Tsaran <vtsaran <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Emacs 27.1 binary Mac OS build crashes on Big Sur (11.x)
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 22:36:47 -0700

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Hi.
I apologize for not submitting this using Emacs's bug reporting system, but
I d not use Emacs for my emailing needs, thus do not have the right setup
for doing this.
I am attaching the full crash log from Mac OS generated by the system and
hope it will be helpful in diagnosing the problem.
More background information below.

1. I am using the clean Mac OS build of Emacs 27.1 from the Cask repository
of Homebrew.
2. The build runs without any issues on Mac OS Catalina (10.15) using exact
same packages and exact same configuration.
3. Emacs seems to abort with memory allocation errors, see the crash thread.

Please let me know if I can provide any more information.

Thanks.
Victor

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Message #8 received at 47378 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Victor Tsaran <vtsaran <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 47378 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47378: Emacs 27.1 binary Mac OS build crashes on Big Sur
 (11.x)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 17:33:40 +0000

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 10:36:47PM -0700, Victor Tsaran wrote:
> Hi.
> I apologize for not submitting this using Emacs's bug reporting system, but
> I d not use Emacs for my emailing needs, thus do not have the right setup
> for doing this.
> I am attaching the full crash log from Mac OS generated by the system and
> hope it will be helpful in diagnosing the problem.
> More background information below.
> 
> 1. I am using the clean Mac OS build of Emacs 27.1 from the Cask repository
> of Homebrew.
> 2. The build runs without any issues on Mac OS Catalina (10.15) using exact
> same packages and exact same configuration.
> 3. Emacs seems to abort with memory allocation errors, see the crash thread.

I don't know what's going on here. It looks like a failure in
malloc...?

Thread 13 Crashed:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib              0x00007fff20309002 __sigsuspend + 10
1   Emacs-x86_64-10_14                  0x00000001041868a8 deliver_thread_signal + 120
2   Emacs-x86_64-10_14                  0x0000000104185309 deliver_fatal_thread_signal + 9
3   libsystem_platform.dylib            0x00007fff2035fd7d _sigtramp + 29
4   libsystem_malloc.dylib              0x00007fff20144020 tiny_malloc_from_free_list + 555
5   libsystem_c.dylib                   0x00007fff2026e72f abort + 135
6   libsystem_malloc.dylib              0x00007fff2014f430 malloc_vreport + 548
7   libsystem_malloc.dylib              0x00007fff201524c8 malloc_report + 151
8   Emacs-x86_64-10_14                  0x00000001040e5590 draw_glyphs + 16048
9   Emacs-x86_64-10_14                  0x000000010410547a expose_line + 666
10  Emacs-x86_64-10_14                  0x00000001040ed37f expose_window + 1263
11  Emacs-x86_64-10_14                  0x00000001040ece5b expose_window_tree + 139
12  Emacs-x86_64-10_14                  0x00000001040eccd1 expose_frame + 113
13  Emacs-x86_64-10_14                  0x000000010428f6e5 -[EmacsView drawRect:] + 133

Is this a consistent crash or something that's just happened once?
-- 
Alan Third

Message #11 received at 47378 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philipp <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: Victor Tsaran <vtsaran <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 47378 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47378: Emacs 27.1 binary Mac OS build crashes on Big Sur
 (11.x)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:56:04 +0100

> Am 25.03.2021 um 06:36 schrieb Victor Tsaran <vtsaran <at> gmail.com>:
> 
> Hi.
> I apologize for not submitting this using Emacs's bug reporting system, but I d not use Emacs for my emailing needs, thus do not have the right setup for doing this.
> I am attaching the full crash log from Mac OS generated by the system and hope it will be helpful in diagnosing the problem.
> More background information below.
> 
> 1. I am using the clean Mac OS build of Emacs 27.1 from the Cask repository of Homebrew.
> 2. The build runs without any issues on Mac OS Catalina (10.15) using exact same packages and exact same configuration.
> 3. Emacs seems to abort with memory allocation errors, see the crash thread.

Looks like a double-free in draw_glyphs?  But that function is massive, so without further instrumentation it might be difficult to pin down the exact problem.
Could you try compiling with debugging symbols and then generating a stack trace using GDB or LLDB?  Another option would be to compile with address sanitization enabled.

Message #14 received at 47378 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Philipp <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: vtsaran <at> gmail.com, 47378 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47378: Emacs 27.1 binary Mac OS build crashes on Big Sur
 (11.x)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 21:46:42 +0300

> From: Philipp <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:56:04 +0100
> Cc: 47378 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Looks like a double-free in draw_glyphs?  But that function is massive, so without further instrumentation it might be difficult to pin down the exact problem.

AFAICT, the only call to malloc in draw_glyphs is via SAFE_ALLOCA.

Message #17 received at 47378 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Victor Tsaran <vtsaran <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Philipp <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>, 47378 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47378: Emacs 27.1 binary Mac OS build crashes on Big Sur
 (11.x)
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2021 12:05:06 -0700

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Hi.
Just wanted to follow up here. Is there any more information I can provide?
I have seen an upgrade to the Mac build, however, this did not fix the
issue.

Thanks a lot.
Victor


On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 11:46 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Philipp <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:56:04 +0100
> > Cc: 47378 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > Looks like a double-free in draw_glyphs?  But that function is massive,
> so without further instrumentation it might be difficult to pin down the
> exact problem.
>
> AFAICT, the only call to malloc in draw_glyphs is via SAFE_ALLOCA.
>

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Message #20 received at 47378 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita2 <at> gmail.com>
To: 47378 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 27.1 binary Mac OS build crashes on Big Sur (11.x)
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 01:45:11 -0300

Just in case, I know this is about 27.1 but I've been using:

- emacs 27.2 from brew
- emacs-plus 27.2 and 28 (emacs-28 branch) from brew
- emacs-mac (railwaycat port, I believe it was 27.2 also) from brew
- emacs 27.2 from https://emacsformacosx.com
- custom builds with vanilla options of emacs-28 and master branches

All in Big Sur (Intel, not M1, it's a MacBook Pro 2017) and have seen no
crash until now.

Maybe this can be closed (?)

Message #23 received at 47378 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Victor Tsaran <vtsaran <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 47378 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Philipp <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#47378: Emacs 27.1 binary Mac OS build crashes on Big Sur
 (11.x)
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 10:25:32 +0200

Victor Tsaran <vtsaran <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Just wanted to follow up here. Is there any more information I can provide?
> I have seen an upgrade to the Mac build, however, this did not fix the issue.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

Do you still see this problem with recent Emacs versions? 

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Message #28 received at 47378 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Victor Tsaran <vtsaran <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 47378 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47378: Emacs 27.1 binary Mac OS build crashes on Big Sur
 (11.x)
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:56:04 +0200

Victor Tsaran <vtsaran <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I don't think I do any more, but I would have to doublecheck whether I
> did not change anything else.

OK, I'm closing this bug report, then.  If you see a similar issue in
the future, please open a new bug report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #33 received at 47378 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Victor Tsaran <vtsaran <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 47378 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47378: Emacs 27.1 binary Mac OS build crashes on Big Sur
 (11.x)
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 09:58:57 -0700

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Will do, thanks!

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 4:56 AM Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> wrote:

> Victor Tsaran <vtsaran <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I don't think I do any more, but I would have to doublecheck whether I
> > did not change anything else.
>
> OK, I'm closing this bug report, then.  If you see a similar issue in
> the future, please open a new bug report.
>
> --
> (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
>    bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
>
-- 

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