Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> writes: > Hello Ludovic, > > Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > >> Hi Maxim, >> >> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> skribis: >> >>> There would be a couple more commits to include in the revert to undo >>> the changes (one to the build system, others to adapt the renaming of >>> the emacs-set-load-path phase for some packages: >> >> Oh indeed. >> >> I must say I haven’t looked closely at the changes nor at the reasons >> for the regression, but IIUC, the regression is serious enough that we >> should have a way to address it quickly. > > The regression only seems to affect the "restarting the session", > e.g. logout then login, not the first boot, which means there's an > (inconvenient) workaround available for single user systems.
Also, this assumes the users know about the bug. But some (most?) of them won't know about it and will spend a lot of time (as I did) trying to understand why their gnome-session crashes. > I've been trying to reproduce in a VM to get a backtrace (if those > affected by the problem could produce one, that'd help pinpoint the > problematic call to PCRE and its origin), but that'll need some more > time. > > If those affected judge the situation dire enough, I don't mind > reverting the changes to the Emacs library loading mechanism for the > time being. > > Thanks, > > Maxim
