emacs-jupyter/jupyter

Emacs seg faults on installation on Emacs 28.0.50 on GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.30, cairo version 1.15.10) of 2020-01-23

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#212 opened on Jan 27, 2020

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Description

Both prebuild zmq dependency or locally built during installation in emacs causes emacs to crash during installation process of emacs-jupyter.

Only trace of seg. fault is in dmesg:

emacs[19120]: segfault at 56326d2b3a80 ip 00007ffbbc5b0978 sp 00007ffd3ae41a10 error 7 in emacs-zmq.so[7ffbbc502000+236000]

Running on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

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Research direction
Reproduce the segfault with a debug build. Run Emacs under GDB, capture a backtrace, and verify the libzmq ABI version. Review the build script for emacs zmq to check if it's using an outdated or mismatched dependency.
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cshell
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backendbuild system
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