Re: xemacs crashes on startup

Wilko Keegstra writes: > > xemacs is crashing at startup with fatal error (11) in opensuse 13.2 > see terminal output & core info below: > [...] > > progress-feedback-with-label(font-lock "Fontifying %s..." 0 "*scratch*") > This is a known bug, but why it occurs is unknown. I suspect a bug in the X libraries (which do no sanity checking of arguments at all, and often leave restrictions on those arguments undocumented), but I've never been able to find it, so we have no way to prevent it. > Workaround: Customize `progress-feedback-use-echo-area' to `t'.