bug#69478: 30.0.50; Emacs dies after scrolling in eww

[Alexander Prähauser]

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2024 19:08:31 +0000
>> From: Alexander Prähauser <ahprae@protonmail.com>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 69478@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> "Po Lu" <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:
>>
>> >>>   ./emacs -xrm 'Emacs.synchronous: true'
>> >>>
>> >>> so that X errors are reported immediately upon the offending requests
>> >>> being issued.
>> >>
>> >> Should the above be run from the shell prompt or from GDB?  If the
>> >
>> > From GDB, of course.  Thanks.
>>
>> Interestingly, if run in this way, Emacs doesn't die, it just freezes.
>> Here is the gdb output:
>
> The backtrace indicates you haven't run Emacs with the -xrm option as
> shown above.  The X errors are still detected asynchronously, not
> synchronously.

What I did, exactly, was this:

[alex@Arch emacs]$ gdb emacs
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Reading symbols from emacs...
(gdb) run -xrm 'Emacs.synchronous: true'

from vterm in another Emacs instance. So I specified the flags inside
gdb and I called emacs, not ./emacs. Could one of those two things be
the culprit?