>>>> "Jack" == Jack Twilley
<jmt(a)twilley.org> writes:
Jack> I use XEmacs out of FreeBSD's ports systems. I use Gnus
Jack> from CVS. Whenever I read a mail message that contains a
Jack> Face: header, XEmacs dumps core.
I don't see anything obvious in the configuration.
Your other report shows a trashed stack, it looks like. Gnus is
well-known for doing things that trash the stack. (No, it shouldn't
be possible to trash the stack, but if there is a way, running Gnus is
the quickest way to find it. :-/ That's why I converted from VM to
Gnus.)
The only such I know of that you can affect is that you could try
setting `gnus-use-byte-compile' to nil. Byte compiling on the fly has
been implicated in several crashes in Gnus in the past. If that
doesn't help, you'll have to upgrade to 21.4, as it's unlikely that
we'll be able to fix the problem in any reasonable amount of time and
effort.
If you want to help debug it yourself, you could rebuild with
debugging symbols included (-g option to gcc, if cc != gcc, I'm not
sure what it would be) and do not strip the executable. Run it under
gdb (which often helps protect the stack), crash it, and send us the
resulting backtrace. At least that is likely to give an indication
whether you're embarking on a bug hunt or a wild goose chase.
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