[ESS] Help with diagnosing semi-frequent Emacs/ESS/R crashes.

[Rodney Sparapani]

On 04/29/11 12:17 PM, Steve Lianoglou wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not really sure which list to send this to, so I'll try here first
> ... then maybe bug-gnu-emacs(?) as well as r-sig-mac.
>
> I'm running OSX.6.7, emacs 23.3 (fromhttp://emacsformacosx.com/), ESS
> (5.12), and R-devel (I periodically recompile R from svn:head -- I
> wonder if this is the issue(?)).
>
> It seems to happen "quite often" that either my ess/R process running
> in emacs quits/aborts on me in a way that*seems*  random to me. By
> quite often, I mean maybe 2-3x per week, and I pretty much use ess/R
> all day every day.
>
> I'm always running emacs+ess+ R from within a screen session in the terminal.
>
> Sometimes this happens in isolation, and emacs keeps humming along. I
> just need to restart R (M-x R) then set it up to where we were before.
> Other times, emacs comes crashing down with it. I'm not sure if these
> two things are separate issues.related, actually.
>
> I'm curious if other people experience this as well?
>
> I just got one of the emacs + R crashes, which prompted me to send
> this email, and I also have a crash-log that goes with it, which I'll
> paste below in case anyone can make more sense of it than me -- but
> perhaps it's more appropriate for a more mac-specific emacs or R
> mailing list.
>
> Thanks,
> -steve
>

Hi Steve:

It seems to me that it must be an Emacs bug.  I don't see how
either R or ESS would crash Emacs.

Rodney