xemacs crashes on console if .emacs not migrated

This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, not to your local site managers!! Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. In XEmacs 21.2 (beta34) "Molpe" [Lucid] (i586-pc-linux) of Tue Jul 18 2000 on boffi95 configured using `configure --extra-verbose --without-wmcommand --with-athena=3d --with-modules --debug --error-checking=none --use-union-type --with-clash-detection --rel-alloc' Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: i started xemacs on linux console, i pressed _any_ key, bang later, i started xemacs on X, migrated .emacs, started again on console and xemacs started cleanly no stack, no backtrace, sorry