[BUG] Dirvish crashes emacs on $HOME

[kayew]

[BUG] Dirvish crashes emacs on $HOME

[kayew]

Tried the commit, it didn't work.

I agree, this is very well likely a problem with Emacs/Dirvish. I'll probably end up opening a bug there at some point. Thanks for your help, much appreciated.

[abougouffa]

Hi @kayew

Thank you for reporting this.

I've faced a similar issue with my installation.

You can try to cleanup all the installed and bytecompiled packages and try to run Emacs again:

cd ~/.emacs.d/
make clean_all
emacs

[kayew]

Unfortunately that didn't work, it's still crashing.

[abougouffa]

Are you using a version of Emacs compiled from source ?

In my case, I experiences a lot of crashes recently, I recompiled Emacs from source followed by the steps above and it fixed the problem.

Another question: does this happens only when you are in the $HOME directory or anywhere you want to launch Dirvish ?

[abougouffa]

@kayew You can also test MinEmacs with the last commit 1fa5265; I've disabled showing Git messages in the file list (I found it buggy in some cases, although it don't cause crashes in my case).

[kayew]

Are you using a version of Emacs compiled from source ?

No. Emacs was installed from pacman.

Another question: does this happens only when you are in the $HOME directory or anywhere you want to launch Dirvish ?

Specifically in $HOME. If I launch emacs from .emacs.d/ and open dirvish, everything is fine. The moment I try to load my home (by moving up a directory), it crashes.

I also did try the last commit, but it still crashes.

[abougouffa]

Weird! I cannot reproduce this behavior in my machine. Can you try the last commit 60c24a1 please?

Otherwise, I suspect this to be a problem with Emacs/Dirvish, as I'm not doing significant thing in MinEmacs that can alter the behavior of Dirvish!