Re: xemacs crash

Arvind> Well, my crash never occurs when I start with a -vanilla, The goal is an XEmacs that is impossible to crash from inside. It may be triggered by your customizations but we still want to fix it! FWIW, the stack trace makes no sense at all to me (those functions just shouldn't be calling each other, and there's only one "real" Lisp function, the other Ffunctions() are all redisplay "glue") suggesting that the stack has been smashed, or that gdb is very very confused. I note you're using Motif on Solaris 5.6; that Motif is known to have bugs which can cause crashes (but the symptoms are quite different from your report). Sun has made patches available, see our PROBLEMS file for details if you're not sure your system is up to date. Arvind> For your benefit, I am attaching my init.el here - Arvind> everything in there was scooped from somewhere in the net. setnu, at least, is now packaged; if you have the edit-utils package installed, you can just get rid of that code. cscope I'm not sure about; I've heard of it but it doesn't seem immediately available from my XEmacs (I know I need a separate binary, but the Lisp bindings should be visible and they're not). Arvind> I'll build xemacs with the debugging turned on and then Arvind> send you my results; please give me some time. Please give a more precise description of what you're doing when you crash, too. Did you click on a GUI element, or drag a scroll bar? Were you typing? If so, what? What mode were you in? Does it seem to be aassociated with certain files? etc etc Finally, a convenient feature: M-x report-xemacs-bug will give you a formatted bug report buffer, containing Installation, information about your installed packages and loaded features, and the last few strokes typed (not very useful with a crash, of course, but can be very useful if you experience a non-fatal bug). If your environment permits you to send mail from XEmacs, you can send it with C-c C-c, otherwise you can save it to a file and attach the file. -- 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.