Crash after updating

[lczech]

A recent update to atom-ctags 4.1.2 crashed my whole project:

• After starting atom, all project folders and open files from my last session where gone. I am not sure, if this comes from the update itself, but I am not aware of any other changes or updates happening at the same time.
• Most importantly, after adding the project folder again, atom fully crashed. I was able to solve the problem by deleting the ".tags" file in the project root directory.

Unfortunately, I cannot send the tags file, as I deleted it in the process.

Furthermore, my project is now strewn with ".tags" files. I am not sure if this was a change of the update or if I just did not realize before. It is however suboptimal, particularly as I do not see any option to hide hidden files (starting with a dot in unix systems) in the project side bar.

[pastak]

I happend same problem and wrote it on https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/7293

[yongkangchen]

@pastak can you tell me the size of .tags file?

[pastak]

@yongkangchen I removed .tags and I rebuild .tags then it run correctly. So, I can't tell you file size which it crashed

[pastak]

@yongkangchen I reproduce this isuue.

My .tags is about 97.2 MB

% ls -l | grep .tags
-rw-r--r--  1 pastak staff  97245163  6 25 17:57 .tags
-rw-r--r--  1 pastak staff      1749  6 25 17:57 .tags1

[bardt]

Same issue here. The size is about 12M:

-rw-r--r--  1 bardt  staff    12M Jul  3 11:59 ./.tags

I excluded everything possible (node_modules, tests, coverage etc.). Probably, the issue was caused by atom unable to finish generating tags in time. I deleted .tags file, increased build timeout to 20000ms, rebuilt tags manually and then restarted. That helped.

Maybe .tags is large and inconsistent?

[lczech]

Since a while (couple of weeks maybe), atom sometimes crashes immediately after startup, before showing the UI, with the following message:

It dumps its core, so I did some inspection using GDB and found this:

(gdb) backtrace
#0  strlen () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/strlen.S:106
#1  0x00007f6a1835f46b in TagReader::Execute() () from /usr/share/atom/resources/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/symbols-view/node_modules/ctags/build/Release/ctags.node
#2  0x00007f6a311950bb in ?? () from /usr/share/atom/libnode.so
#3  0x00007f6a3119f516 in ?? () from /usr/share/atom/libnode.so
#4  0x00007f6a303b1182 in start_thread (arg=0x7f6a1a743700) at pthread_create.c:312
#5  0x00007f6a2a10747d in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:111

So it seems to be a ctags problem, again. Not sure how it is related to the current issue, but might help resolve it anyway. The crash is not really predictable, sometimes it happens, sometimes not...

Using: atom 1.1.0 ctags 4.4.0 Ubuntu 14.4

[verheyenkoen]

I have the same problem as @lczech since yesterdays update (4.4.1). atom-ctags makes my Atom (1.2.0) "crash" (with the same dialog) about 20 seconds after it was started. This only seems to happen when I have a folder workspace open, not when editing individual files. When I disable atom-ctags the problem is gone.

I'm on Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11.1).

[rattrayalex]

This also happened to me. I switched to just using symbols-view and autocomplete-ctags

[cameron-gagnon]

Very similar problem as @lczech, about 20 seconds after opening atom with a pretty large project, it crashes with the same window. Seems to work if only editing individual files not in the context of the project. After disabling atom-ctags Atom works fine. Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11.5) atom-ctags (4.5.2)

[bothy4g]

Had the same problem: atom crashed when opening one specific project. Found out after a couple of hours of googleing, that it was related to ctags. Deleting the .tags and .tags1 files solved my issue. And didn't have to disable the ctags module. Maybe this helps someone.