================================================================ Dear Bug Team! I was editing a Perl file. I clicked on a tab to switch to another Perl bufer, and XEmacs crashed. I couldn't repeat it. On standard out, I got Fatal error: assertion failed, file gui-x.c, line 284, RECORD_TYPEP (obj, lrecord_type_cons) Fatal error (6). Your files have been auto-saved. Use `M-x recover-session' to recover them. Your version of XEmacs was distributed with a PROBLEMS file that may describe your crash, and with luck a workaround. Please check it first, but do report the crash anyway. Please report this bug by invoking M-x report-emacs-bug, or by selecting `Send Bug Report' from the Help menu. If that won't work, send ordinary email to `crashes(a)xemacs.org&#39;. *MAKE SURE* to include this entire output from this crash, especially including the Lisp backtrace, as well as the XEmacs configuration from M-x describe-installation (or equivalently, the file `Installation' in the top of the build tree). *Please* try *hard* to obtain a C stack backtrace; without it, we are unlikely to be able to analyze the problem. Locate the core file produced as a result of this crash (often called `core' or `core.<process-id>', and located in the directory in which you started XEmacs or your home directory), and type gdb /usr/local/bin/xemacs core then type `where' at the debugger prompt. No GDB on your system? You may have DBX, or XDB, or SDB. (Ask your system administrator if you need help.) If no core file was produced, enable them (often with `ulimit -c unlimited') in case of future recurrance of the crash. Lisp backtrace follows: # (unwind-protect ...) # (unwind-protect ...) # (unwind-protect ...) # (unwind-protect ...) # (unwind-protect ...) # (unwind-protect ...) # (unwind-protect ...) ("next_event_internal()" "[internal]") # (unwind-protect ...) # bind (inhibit-quit) (next-event "[internal]") # (condition-case ... . error) # (catch top-level ...) $ I ran gdb as htese instructions recommend, and got (gdb) where #0 0xfeb9f890 in _libc_kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1 #1 0x9c410 in fatal_error_signal (sig=6) at emacs.c:3440 #2 <signal handler called> #3 0xfeb9f890 in _libc_kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1 #4 0xfeb358bc in abort () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1 #5 0x9c5a4 in zero_out_command_line_status_vars () at emacs.c:4283 (gdb) Hope this helps. -- Pete ================================================================ System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- uname -a: SunOS cworks 5.8 Generic_108528-18 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R ./configure '--with-xpm' '--with-png' '--site-libraries=/usr/local/lib' '--site-includes=/usr/openwin/include/X11:/usr/local/include' '--without-ldap' XEmacs 21.5-b11 "cabbage" configured for `sparc-sun-solaris2.8'. Compilation / Installation: Source code location: /usr/src/xemacs-21.5.11 Installation prefix: /usr/local Additional header files: /usr/openwin/include/X11 /usr/local/include Additional libraries: /usr/local/lib Runtime library search path: /usr/ccs/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/dt/lib:/usr/openwin/lib:/opt/sfw/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/2.95.3:/opt/sfw/lib Operating system description file: `s/sol2.h' Machine description file: `m/sparc.h' Compiler: gcc -Wall -Wno-switch -Winline -Wmissing-prototypes -Wsign-compare -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wshadow -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -g -O3 Relocating allocator for buffers: yes GNU version of malloc: yes Window System: Compiling in support for the X window system: - X Windows headers location: /usr/dt/include /usr/openwin/include - X Windows libraries location: /usr/dt/lib /usr/openwin/lib - Handling WM_COMMAND properly. Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. Using Motif dialog boxes. Using Motif native widgets. TTY: Compiling in support for ncurses. Images: Compiling in support for GIF images (builtin). Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG images. Compiling in support for JPEG images. Sound: Compiling in support for sound (native). Databases: Compiling in support for DBM. Internationalization: Mail: Compiling in support for "dot-locking" mail spool file locking method. Other Features: Inhibiting IPv6 canonicalization at startup. Compiling in support for ToolTalk. Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules. Compiling in support for extra debugging code. WARNING: --------------------------------------------------------- WARNING: Compiling in support for runtime error checking. WARNING: XEmacs will run noticeably more slowly as a result. WARNING: Error checking is on by default for XEmacs beta releases. WARNING: --------------------------------------------------------- Load-Path Lisp Shadows: ---------------------- (/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/build/build-report /usr/local/lib/xemacs-21.5-b11/lisp/build-report) Installed XEmacs Packages: ------------------------- ((zenirc:version 1.13 :type regular) (xslt-process :version 1.11 :type regular) (xslide :version 1.04 :type regular) (xemacs-devel :version 1.5 :type single-file) (xemacs-base :version 1.75 :type regular) (w3 :version 1.28 :type regular) (vm :version 7.07 :type regular) (viper :version 1.35 :type regular) (view-process :version 1.12 :type regular) (vhdl :version 1.16 :type regular) (vc-cc :version 1.21 :type regular) (vc :version 1.35 :type regular) (tramp :version 1.11 :type regular) (tpu :version 1.12 :type regular) (tooltalk :version 1.13 :type regular) (tm :version 1.35 :type regular) (time :version 1.12 :type regular) (textools :version 1.14 :type regular) (text-modes :version 1.58 :type single-file) 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