Bug-report; whether you are using a prebuilt binary from ftp.xemacs.org or compiled XEmacs yourself for your system, etc. using precompiled binary, see below If at all possible, *please* try to obtain a C stack backtrace; it will help us immensely in determining what went wrong. To do this, locate the core file that was produced as a result of this crash (it's usually called `core' and is located in the directory in which you started XEmacs, or maybe in your home directory), and type gdb /Home/roel/bin/xemacs core then type `where' when the debugger prompt comes up. (If you don't have GDB on your system, you might have DBX, or XDB, or SDB. A similar procedure should work for all of these. Ask your system administrator if you need more help.) Lisp backtrace follows: # (condition-case ... . error) # (catch top-level ...) [1] IOT trap xemacs (core dumped) roel(cyber)[4]: #0 0x2a89f8 in kill () #1 0x2f02c in fatal_error_signal () #2 <signal handler called> #3 0x2af244 in abort () #4 0x338d4 in signal_1 () #5 0x33cf8 in Fsignal () #6 0x33d2c in signal_error () #7 0x34128 in error () #8 0x34c4 in xrealloc () #9 0x2a120 in Dynarr_resize () #10 0x99ce8 in add_emchar_rune () #11 0x9c498 in create_text_block () #12 0x99730 in generate_display_line () #13 0x9fde8 in regenerate_window () #14 0xa1764 in redisplay_window () #15 0xa1ae4 in redisplay_windows () #16 0xa1ae4 in redisplay_windows () #17 0xa1d4c in redisplay_frame () #18 0xa2054 in redisplay_device () #19 0xa2578 in redisplay_without_hooks () #20 0x40600 in Fnext_event () #21 0x191a0 in Fcommand_loop_1 () #22 0x18df4 in command_loop_1 () #23 0x334f0 in condition_case_1 () #24 0x18150 in command_loop_3 () #25 0x181a0 in command_loop_2 () #26 0x33120 in internal_catch () #27 0x185e4 in initial_command_loop () #28 0x30280 in main_1 () #29 0x30a88 in main () emacs-version: XEmacs 19.16 "Lille" [Lucid] (sparc-sunOS4.1.3) of Thu Oct 16 1997 on gold Please feel free to ask more details, (I will keep the core dump until you tell me to throw it away) Yours sincerely, Roeland Merks roel(a)cyber.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp