Re: Crash with xemacs 21.4.4

Any time the crash occurs in x_delete_device() ... CleanupOnDisplayClose(), this is an indication of the "Motif progress widget" bug. I don't know if this is an XEmacs or a Motif bug, but I'm starting to think that this is a Motif bug. What seems to be happening is that RemoveMatchingEntries() is freeing a block of memory, and then DestroyImageCacheEntry() is referencing the freed block. [ What's really strange is that I can't find any reference to RemoveMatchingEntries() in any of my Motif sources. This bug occurs on more than one platform, and so RemoveMatchingEntries() is not some vendor-specific optimization. ] The workaround appears to be to disable the Motif progress widget, and go back to the old minibuffer-text-based progress indicator, by placing the following into ~/.xemacs/init.el: (setq progress-feedback-use-echo-area t)