Re: fatal crash while typing

Tobias> I was minding my own business writing my cs031 project, Tobias> and bam! segfault. Using what mode? Tobias> here's a a list of the last couple errors from xemacs Tobias> which were printed out in the console, I'm not sure if Tobias> they are relevant or not but who knows? Tobias> xemacs: X Error of failed request: BadGC (invalid GC parameter) They might be. However, these are notoriously hard to track. Did you give us _all_ of the errors? In particular, were there any BadFont or BadWindow errors in the errors? Also, note that normally XEmacs should not print errors to the console at all; we try to trap them and and pass them to Lisp error-reporting mechanisms, and print in a warnings buffer. So if you're seeing errors on console, either they're coming from a very low-level module that XEmacs has little control of (such as libX11) or XEmacs is in a potentially unstable state for some other reason. Unless you're pretty familiar with internals (or have specific information about a particular error message), the safest thing to do is save your buffers, exit, and restart if you see output on the console. Since you're using a precompiled, stripped binary with no error-checking or debug information, there's not much we can do. I can only recommend upgrading to a more recent version of XEmacs (we're currently on 21.4.14, I don't know what Debian supplies). Tobias> System Info to help track down your bug: Tobias> --------------------------------------- uname -a: Linux eeyore 2.4.19-pre5-eeyore #1 Fri Apr 5 00:42:42 EST 2002 i686 unknown ./configure '--with-sound=none,native' '--cflags=-O2 -g -Wall' '--with-x11' '--extra-verbose' '--with-site-lisp' '--statedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info/xemacs-21.4.6' '--prefix=/usr' '--error-checking=none' '--debug=no' '--dynamic' '--without-postgresql' '--with-gpm=no' '--with_menubars=lucid' '--with_scrollbars=lucid' '--with_dialogs=athena' '--docdir=/usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.6/i386-debian-linux/mule/' '--with-mule' '--with-canna=no' '--with-wnn=no' '--with-xim=xlib' '--with-xfs' '--package-path=~/.xemacs:~/.xemacs/packages:~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages::/usr/share/xemacs21/packages:/usr/share/xemacs21/mule-packages:/usr/share/xemacs21/site-packages' 'i386-debian-linux' XEmacs 21.4.6 "Common Lisp" configured for `i386-debian-linux'. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.