Weird Gnus Crash

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 "Boreas" [Lucid] (i586-pc-linux) of Fri Feb 5 1999 on jbm configured using `configure --dynamic --with-database=gnudbm --with-xpm --gung-ho --with-mule=no --with-png=yes --with-session' Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: Was reading news in Gnus via gnuclient -nw over a tty. Hit space several times to move to the next message. Terminal froze up. Lost conenction. Was able to connect again a few minutes later, but could not run gnuclient again, the reason being that XEmacs was no longer running. Got a core dump; this is the result of "gdb `which xemacs` core' followed by the "where" command (incidentally, what is the I/O error related to?): [ jbm＠jbm ~ 130 ] $ gdb `which xemacs` core GNU gdb 4.17 Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"... Core was generated by `xemacs'. Program terminated with signal 3, Quit. find_solib: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error #0 0x40271781 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) where #0 0x40271781 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0xbffff2e0 in ?? () #2 0x8122f8d in filedesc_writer (stream=0x8b17c48, data=0x8a16240 "\e[30m \e[m\017\e[3;29H\e[30m\e[3;30H\e[K\e[m\017\e[4;1H\e[30m \e[m\017\e[1m\e[30mtimestamp:\e[m\017\e[30m 17 Apr 1998\e[m\017\e[30m \e[m\017\e[4;29H\e[30m\e[4;30H\e[K\e[m\017\e[5;1H\e[30m \e[m\017\e[5;1H\e[30m\e[5;2H\e[K\e[m\017\e[6;1H\e[30m \e[m\017\e[6;1H\e"..., size=512) at lstream.c:984 #3 0x81223d1 in Lstream_flush_out (lstr=0x8b17c48) at lstream.c:343 #4 0x812263e in Lstream_write_1 (lstr=0x8b17c48, data=0xbffff427, size=1) at lstream.c:452 #5 0x8122bc8 in Lstream_fputc (lstr=0x8b17c48, c=91) at lstream.c:732 #6 0x80b5d7f in send_string_to_tty_console (c=0x8ba7068, str=0xbffff45b "[\204=f4=ff=bf=f5{\"＠[", len=1) at cm.c:74 #7 0x80b5dfe in cmputc (c=91) at cm.c:87 #8 0x40227bf5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libncurses.so.4 #9 0x80b30e6 in tty_turn_on_face_1 (c=0x8ba7068, highlight_p=0, blinking_p=0, dim_p=0, underline_p=1, reverse_p=0, cinst_fore=141481376, cinst_back=137520440) at redisplay-tty.c:746 #10 0x80b32f9 in tty_turn_on_face (w=0x8a692d8, findex=12) at redisplay-tty.c:790 #11 0x80b2bec in tty_output_bufbyte_string (w=0x8a692d8, dl=0x8bdea38, str=0x8be0e88 "Panix Public Access UNIX, NYC", '-' <repeats 11 times>, "ow better. You really do. ng? y..ad)7hfke$h2e$1(a)news.panix.com&gt; <7963pl$gnl$1(a)news.panix&quot;, len=29, xpos=15, findex=12, cursor=0) at redisplay-tty.c:586 #12 0x80b2ce5 in tty_output_emchar_dynarr (w=0x8a692d8, dl=0x8bdea38, buf=0x88ef688, xpos=15, findex=12, cursor=0) at redisplay-tty.c:617 #13 0x80b1e32 in tty_output_display_block (w=0x8a692d8, dl=0x8bdea38, block=0, start=0, end=45, start_pixpos=0, cursor_start=0, cursor_width=0, cursor_height=0) at redisplay-tty.c:255 #14 0x814aea8 in redisplay_output_display_block (w=0x8a692d8, dl=0x8bdea38, block=0, start=0, end=45, start_pixpos=0, cursor_start=0, cursor_width=0, cursor_height=0) at redisplay-output.c:999 #15 0x8149409 in compare_display_blocks (w=0x8a692d8, cdl=0x8c199a0, ddl=0x8bdea38, c_block=0, d_block=0, start_pixpos=0, cursor_start=0, cursor_width=0, cursor_height=0) at redisplay-output.c:418 #16 0x814a2c4 in output_display_line (w=0x8a692d8, cdla=0x8a694d8, ddla=0x8c25118, line=1, force_start=-1, force_end=-1) at redisplay-output.c:653 #17 0x814cc61 in redisplay_output_window (w=0x8a692d8) at redisplay-output.c:1547 #18 0x813f3bf in redisplay_window (window=145134296, skip_selected=1) at redisplay.c:5258 #19 0x813f6a3 in redisplay_windows (window=144362288, skip_selected=1) at redisplay.c:5308 #20 0x813eacb in redisplay_window (window=144889856, skip_selected=1) at redisplay.c:4944 #21 0x813f98c in redisplay_frame (f=0x8b9f9f8, preemption_check=0) at redisplay.c:5308 #22 0x813fb37 in redisplay_device (d=0x8babb38) at redisplay.c:5536 #23 0x813ff1f in redisplay_without_hooks () at redisplay.c:5653 #24 0x81401a8 in redisplay () at redisplay.c:5722 #25 0x80bddc7 in Fnext_event (event=145595408, prompt=137373148) at event-stream.c:2238 #26 0x806e19a in Fcommand_loop_1 () at cmdloop.c:569 #27 0x806df29 in command_loop_1 (dummy=137373148) at cmdloop.c:493 #28 0x808be9d in condition_case_1 (handlers=137373260, bfun=0x806ded8 <command_loop_1>, barg=137373148, hfun=0x806d35c <cmd_error>, harg=137373148) at eval.c:1640 #29 0x806e3c4 in command_loop_2 (dummy=137373148) at cmdloop.c:255 #30 0x808ba78 in internal_catch (tag=137447884, func=0x806e390 <command_loop_2>, arg=137373148, threw=0x0) at eval.c:1315 #31 0x806d7c3 in initial_command_loop (load_me=137373148) at cmdloop.c:304 #32 0x8087701 in xemacs_21_2_b10_i586_pc_linux (argc=1, argv=0xbffffc64, envp=0xbffffc6c, restart=0) at emacs.c:1736 #33 0x8087e75 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffc64, envp=0xbffffc6c) at emacs.c:2165 Recent keystrokes: TAB DEL DEL - 2 1 TAB e t TAB RET RET misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user misc-user button1 button1up RET button1 button1up button1 button1up RET C-x b * s h TAB RET q u i t RET g d b SPC ` w h i c h SPC x e m a c s ` SPC c o r e RET w h e r e RET misc-user Recent messages (most recent first): Loading footnote... Loading emacsbug...done Loading emacsbug... Checking new news...done Checking new news... Selecting menu item Q2.1.1...done Selecting menu item Q2.1.1... Selecting menu item Q2.0.6...done Selecting menu item Q2.0.6... Composing main Info directory...done j -- #!/usr/bin/perl $dot="\x2e";$lt="\x3c";$gt="\x3e";$at="\x40"; print "J Mignault ${lt}jbm${at}panix${dot}com${gt}\n"; $wright = qq(If olive oil comes from olives, where does baby oil come from?);