I'm not really sure what caused the crash. I had several windows open and I believe I was quitting GNUS while composing an e-mail in VM. Suddenly my hard drive light went bonkers and my computer got very nonresponsive, then kablooie! XEmacs was gone! uname -a: Linux inanna 2.2.10 #3 Fri Jun 25 17:08:28 PDT 1999 i686 unknown Lisp backtrace follows: resize-subwindow(#<image-instance (widget) on #<x-device on ":0.0" 0x20dd> (#<face default "default face">)Buffers 789x23 on #<x-frame > 0x0x8c81d68 0x56e63> 789 nil) # bind (inst frame-or-buffer) update-tab-in-gutter(#<buffer "(XEmacs) Presentation">) select-window(#<window on "(XEmacs) Presentation" 0x56e61>) # bind (window tallest-window first-window b horiz-predicate) bbdb-pop-up-bbdb-buffer(#<compiled-function (w) "...(15)" [b window-buffer w major-mode vm-mode] 2>) # bind (offer-to-create) bbdb/vm-pop-up-bbdb-buffer(nil) # (unwind-protect ...) # bind (offer-to-create) bbdb/vm-update-record() run-hooks(bbdb/vm-update-record) # (unwind-protect ...) # (unwind-protect ...) # bind (vm-sr-clip vm-sr-min vm-sr-max) # (unwind-protect ...) # bind (hook-variable message) vm-run-message-hook([[#<marker at 1 in (XEmacs) 0x8c63034> #<marker at 56 in (XEmacs) 0x8c6304c> #<marker at 2116 in (XEmacs) 0x8c631cc> #<marker at 2335 in (XEmacs) 0x8c631fc> #<marker at 2562 in (XEmacs) 0x8c63214> #<marker at 2563 in (XEmacs) 0x8c632bc>] ["6" " 6" nil #<marker at 601 in (XEmacs) Summary 0x8c16054> #<marker at 680 in (XEmacs) Summary 0x8c1603c> <<>> <-- From_ 855 #<buffer "(XEmacs)"> 0 (<37C1FA53\.EB080F08(a)wlv\.iipo\.gtegsc\.com>) nil nil nil nil nil nil #<extent (601, 680) H 0x8e77458 in buffer (XEmacs) Summary>] [t nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] [nil "Tuesday" "24" "August" "1999" "01:50:11" "GMT" "Allen M. Cohen" &quot;amc(a)wlv.iipo.gtegsc.com&quot; &quot;&lt;37C1FA53.EB080F08(a)wlv.iipo.gtegsc.com&gt;&quot; "4" "EFS problem with XEmacs 21.1.4" "^From:" &quot;xemacs(a)xemacs.org&quot; &quot;xemacs(a)xemacs.org&quot; "8" "1999082401:50:11" "EFS problem with XEmacs 21.1.4" (number mark "N Allen M. Cohen 24.08.99 01:50 4 " thread-indent "EFS problem with XEmacs 21.1.4\n") nil nil] [nil <v> nil nil nil]] vm-select-message-hook) # (unwind-protect ...) # (unwind-protect ...) # bind (vm-sbe-buffer) vm-preview-current-message() # (unwind-protect ...) # bind (point message-pointer message-list mp) vm-follow-summary-cursor() # bind (arg) vm-scroll-forward(nil) # bind (command-debug-status) call-interactively(vm-scroll-forward) # (condition-case ... . error) # (catch top-level ...) gdb /usr/local/bin/xemacs core `where': #0 0x403e7111 in __kill () #1 0x8075129 in fatal_error_signal () #2 <signal handler called> #3 0x4003e800 in _init () #4 0x40241e63 in XtSetValues () #5 0x813060a in x_resize_subwindow () #6 0x80cc82c in Fresize_subwindow () #7 0x807aeea in Ffuncall () #8 0x805b1fe in execute_optimized_program () #9 0x805aea6 in funcall_compiled_function () #10 0x807b017 in Ffuncall () #11 0x807b8f3 in run_hook_with_args_in_buffer () #12 0x807b943 in run_hook_with_args () #13 0x807b9c3 in va_run_hook_with_args () #14 0x8058789 in Frecord_buffer () #15 0x813d041 in Fselect_window () #16 0x807afe0 in Ffuncall () #17 0x805b1fe in execute_optimized_program () #18 0x805aea6 in funcall_compiled_function () #19 0x807b017 in Ffuncall () #20 0x805b1fe in execute_optimized_program () #21 0x805aea6 in funcall_compiled_function () #22 0x807b017 in Ffuncall () #23 0x805b1fe in execute_optimized_program () #24 0x805aea6 in funcall_compiled_function () #25 0x807b017 in Ffuncall () #26 0x807b8f3 in run_hook_with_args_in_buffer () #27 0x807b943 in run_hook_with_args () #28 0x807b69c in Frun_hooks () #29 0x807afe0 in Ffuncall () #30 0x805b1fe in execute_optimized_program () #31 0x805aea6 in funcall_compiled_function () #32 0x807b017 in Ffuncall () #33 0x805b1fe in execute_optimized_program () #34 0x805aea6 in funcall_compiled_function () #35 0x807b017 in Ffuncall () #36 0x805b1fe in execute_optimized_program () #37 0x805aea6 in funcall_compiled_function () #38 0x807b017 in Ffuncall () #39 0x805b1fe in execute_optimized_program () #40 0x805aea6 in funcall_compiled_function () #41 0x807b017 in Ffuncall () #42 0x805edec in Fcall_interactively () #43 0x807a002 in Fcommand_execute () #44 0x80a6c74 in execute_command_event () #45 0x80a70f4 in Fdispatch_event () #46 0x80646d9 in Fcommand_loop_1 () #47 0x806455e in command_loop_1 () #48 0x8078d88 in condition_case_1 () #49 0x80641cc in command_loop_3 () #50 0x80641e8 in command_loop_2 () #51 0x8078ad9 in internal_catch () #52 0x806432c in initial_command_loop () #53 0x8075fa2 in xemacs_21_2_b19_i686_pc_linux () #54 0x80766c3 in main () #55 0x403e0cb3 in __libc_start_main (main=0x80765c4 <main>, argc=1, argv=0xbffffc34, init=0x804ea24 <_init>, fini=0x81518b4 <_fini>, rtld_fini=0x4000a350 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffffc2c) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:78 -- # Erik Arneson erik(a)starseed.com Webring Software Engineer # # Yahoo! 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