[Bug] Emacs crashes when editing files

[MariusKressin]

Thank you for the bug report

• I am using the latest version of Centaur Emacs.
• I checked my private configurations in custom.el and custom-post.el.
• I checked FAQ.

Bug description

When I open a JS, TS, or Ruby (possibly others as well) file in emacs, it crashes, and I get the message: Fatal error 11: Segmentation fault.

For whatever reason, Elisp files do not make it crash, and neither does Go. Also, it takes a few seconds longer to crash if I disable aggressive-indent-mode or flymake-mode.

Steps to reproduce

1. Install Centaur Emacs by cloning it to .emacs.d.
2. Start emacs.
3. Wait for it to finish downloading everything.
4. Navigate to a file.
5. Edit the file.
6. For certain files, emacs crashes.

Expected behavior

This behavior was naturally unexpected.

OS

MacOS

Emacs Version

29

Error callstack

No response

Anything else

No response

[seagle0128]

Can you provide any example files to reproduce the issue?

[MariusKressin]

This happens with empty files.

[seagle0128]

I believe it's an issue of Emacs or related lib. Please check if tree-sitter is enabled. Try the solutions below.

1. (setq centaur-tree-sitter nil). See [Bug] Node type error when execute consult-line in cpp file at the first time #445
2. Recompiling Emacs with the latest libgccjit. See Installation fails with libgccjit (and possibly gcc) 14.1.0 recent release d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus#681.

[MariusKressin]

Sadly, the first option (setq ...) doesn't seem to do anything. As for the second, I'm using the MacPorts version of Emacs, so I don't have libgccjit installed (MacPorts uses an alternative library, I think).

Maybe MacPorts is conflicting with it in some way. Does Centaur Emacs require Homebrew?

[CsBigDataHub]

@MariusKressin I have had bunch of problems in the past with Emacs installed with Macports. I have had great success with this build script for past 2 years with out any crashes - https://github.com/jimeh/build-emacs-for-macos

Ofcourse you will still need Homebrew to install dependencies.

[MariusKressin]

That's okay then. I don't think it's worthwhile to switch over to Homebrew just for this, so I'll look elsewhere.

[seagle0128]

I am using emacs-plus, but Centaur Emacs doesn't require homebrew. You can compile Emacs yourself (without homebrew) if you will. I recommend GNU Emacs.