Upon mail sent quite often Emacs crashes. Here is the output: Fatal error: assertion failed, file eval.c, line 1877, abort() Fatal error (6). Your files have been auto-saved. Use `M-x recover-session' to recover them. If you have access to the PROBLEMS file that came with your version of XEmacs, please check to see if your crash is described there, as there may be a workaround available. Otherwise, please report this bug by running the send-pr script included with XEmacs, or selecting `Send Bug Report' from the help menu. As a last resort send ordinary email to `crashes(a)xemacs.org'. *MAKE SURE* to include the information in the command M-x describe-installation. 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 the editor, or maybe in your home directory), and type gdb /usr/local/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 ...) ------------------------------------------------------------ Here is the output from gdb on the core file: hyde501% gdb `which xemacs` ~/xemacs-21.1.14.core GNU gdb 4.18 Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-freebsd"... (no debugging symbols found)... warning: core file may not match specified executable file. Core was generated by `xemacs-21.1.14'. Program terminated with signal 6, Abort trap. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.7... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libcompface.so.1... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libtiff.so.4... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libpng.so.5... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.9... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libz.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5...(no debugging symbols found)... done. Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.1... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libkvm.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)... done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libm.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libutil.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)... done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libxpg4.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)... done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.4...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXThrStub.so.6... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)... done. #0 0x2849380c in kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4 (gdb) where #0 0x2849380c in kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4 #1 0x8074248 in XMapRaised () #2 0xbfbfffac in ?? () #3 0x8075ed2 in XMapRaised () #4 0x807847d in XMapRaised () #5 0x8078874 in XMapRaised () #6 0x807889e in XMapRaised () #7 0x8078bc6 in XMapRaised () #8 0x80e5bd3 in matherr () #9 0x80f72d7 in matherr () #10 0x80f7b16 in matherr () #11 0x80f7cf3 in matherr () #12 0x80f7eff in matherr () #13 0x80f80b5 in matherr () #14 0x80f82b2 in matherr () #15 0x80a620e in XMapRaised () #16 0x8062a66 in XMapRaised () #17 0x80628cd in XMapRaised () #18 0x8078114 in XMapRaised () #19 0x80624f7 in XMapRaised () #20 0x806251b in XMapRaised () #21 0x8077e50 in XMapRaised () #22 0x806266a in XMapRaised () #23 0x80750cf in XMapRaised () #24 0x8075786 in XMapRaised () #25 0x804efa5 in XMapRaised () (gdb) ------------------------------------------------------------ Emacs : XEmacs 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" [Lucid] (i386--freebsd, Mule) of Sat Sep 22 2001 on hyde.lpds.sublink.org Package: VM 6.92 current state: ============== (setq vm-arrived-message-hook nil vm-arrived-messages-hook nil vm-auto-center-summary 0 vm-auto-decode-mime-messages t vm-auto-displayed-mime-content-type-exceptions nil vm-auto-displayed-mime-content-types '("text" "multipart") vm-auto-folder-case-fold-search t vm-auto-get-new-mail t vm-auto-next-message t vm-berkeley-mail-compatibility '(berkeley-unix netbsd) vm-check-folder-types t vm-circular-folders nil vm-confirm-new-folders t vm-confirm-quit 0 vm-convert-folder-types t vm-crash-box "~/INBOX.CRASH" vm-crash-box-suffix nil vm-default-From_-folder-type 'From_ vm-default-folder-type 'From_ vm-delete-after-archiving t vm-delete-after-bursting nil vm-delete-after-saving t vm-delete-empty-folders t vm-digest-burst-type "guess" vm-digest-identifier-header-format "X-Digest: %s\n" vm-digest-center-preamble t vm-digest-preamble-format "\"%s\" (%F)" vm-digest-send-type "mime" vm-display-buffer-hook nil vm-display-using-mime t vm-edit-message-hook nil vm-edit-message-mode 'text-mode vm-fill-paragraphs-containing-long-lines nil vm-flush-interval 90 vm-folder-directory "~/Mail/" vm-folder-read-only nil vm-folders-summary-database "~/.vm.folders.db" vm-folders-summary-directories '("~/") vm-folders-summary-format " %12f %4t total, %n new, %u unread, %s spooled\n" vm-follow-summary-cursor t vm-forward-message-hook nil vm-forwarded-headers nil vm-forwarding-digest-type "mime" vm-forwarding-subject-format "forwarded message from %F" vm-frame-parameter-alist nil vm-frame-per-completion t vm-frame-per-composition t vm-frame-per-edit t vm-frame-per-folder t vm-frame-per-folders-summary nil vm-frame-per-help nil vm-frame-per-summary nil vm-highlight-url-face 'bold-italic vm-highlighted-header-regexp nil vm-honor-page-delimiters nil vm-image-directory "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/vm/" vm-imap-bytes-per-session nil vm-imap-expunge-after-retrieving t vm-imap-max-message-size nil vm-imap-messages-per-session nil vm-imap-session-preauth-hook nil vm-in-reply-to-format "%i" vm-included-text-attribution-format "%F writes:\n" vm-included-text-discard-header-regexp nil vm-included-text-headers nil vm-included-text-prefix " > " vm-index-file-suffix nil vm-init-file "~/.vm" vm-infer-mime-types nil vm-invisible-header-regexp nil vm-jump-to-new-messages t vm-jump-to-unread-messages t vm-keep-crash-boxes nil vm-keep-sent-messages 1 vm-lynx-program "lynx" vm-mail-header-from nil vm-mail-header-insert-date t vm-mail-header-insert-message-id t vm-mail-hook nil vm-make-crash-box-name nil vm-make-spool-file-name nil vm-mail-check-interval 300 vm-mail-mode-hook '(mc-install-write-mode) vm-mail-send-hook nil vm-mime-7bit-composition-charset "us-ascii" vm-mime-8bit-composition-charset "iso-8859-1" vm-mime-8bit-text-transfer-encoding 'quoted-printable vm-mime-alternative-select-method 'best-internal vm-mime-attachment-auto-type-alist '(("\\.jpe?g$" . "image/jpeg") ("\\.gif$" . "image/gif") ("\\.png$" . "image/png") ("\\.tiff?$" . "image/tiff") ("\\.html?$" . "text/html") ("\\.au$" . "audio/basic") ("\\.mpe?g$" . "video/mpeg") ("\\.mov$" . "video/quicktime") ("\\.ps$" . "application/postscript") ("\\.pdf$" . "application/pdf") ("\\.xls$" . "application/vnd.ms-excel")) vm-mime-attachment-save-directory nil vm-mime-avoid-folding-content-type t vm-mime-base64-decoder-program nil vm-mime-base64-decoder-switches nil vm-mime-base64-encoder-program nil vm-mime-base64-encoder-switches nil vm-mime-button-face 'gui-button-face vm-mime-button-format-alist '(("text" . "%-35.35(%d, %c%) [%k to %a]") ("multipart/alternative" . "%-35.35(%d%) [%k to %a]") ("multipart/digest" . "%-35.35(%d, %n message%s%) [%k to %a]") ("multipart" . "%-35.35(%d, %n part%s%) [%k to %a]") ("message/partial" . "%-35.35(%d, part %N (of %T)%) [%k to %a]") ("message/external-body" . "%-35.35(%d%) [%k to %a (%x)]") ("message" . "%-35.35(%d%) [%k to %a]") ("audio" . "%-35.35(%d%) [%k to %a]") ("video" . "%-35.35(%d%) [%k to %a]") ("image" . "%-35.35(%d%) [%k to %a]") ("application/octet-stream" . "%-35.35(%d, %f%) [%k to %a]") ) vm-mime-charset-font-alist nil vm-mime-confirm-delete t vm-mime-decode-for-preview t vm-mime-default-face-charset-exceptions nil vm-mime-default-face-charsets '("us-ascii" "iso-8859-1") vm-mime-delete-after-saving nil vm-mime-delete-viewer-processes t vm-mime-digest-discard-header-regexp nil vm-mime-digest-headers '("Resent-" "From:" "Sender:" "To:" "Cc:" "Subject:" "Date:" "Message-ID:" "Keywords:" "MIME-Version:" "Content-") vm-mime-display-function nil vm-mime-external-content-types-alist nil vm-mime-ignore-mime-version t vm-mime-internal-content-type-exceptions nil vm-mime-internal-content-types t vm-mime-max-message-size 5000000 vm-mime-qp-decoder-program nil vm-mime-qp-decoder-switches nil vm-mime-qp-encoder-program nil vm-mime-qp-encoder-switches nil vm-mime-type-converter-alist nil vm-mime-uuencode-decoder-program "uudecode" vm-mime-uuencode-decoder-switches nil vm-mode-hook '(mc-install-read-mode) vm-mode-hooks nil vm-mosaic-program "Mosaic" vm-mosaic-program-switches nil vm-move-after-deleting t vm-move-after-undeleting nil vm-move-after-killing nil vm-move-messages-physically nil vm-movemail-program "movemail" vm-mutable-frames t vm-mutable-windows t vm-netscape-program "netscape" vm-netscape-program-switches nil vm-page-continuation-glyph "...press SPACE to see more..." vm-paragraph-fill-column 70 vm-pop-bytes-per-session nil vm-pop-expunge-after-retrieving t vm-pop-max-message-size nil vm-pop-messages-per-session nil vm-pop-md5-program "md5" vm-popup-menu-on-mouse-3 t vm-preferences-file "~/.vm.preferences" vm-preview-lines 0 vm-preview-read-messages nil vm-primary-inbox "~/INBOX" vm-quit-hook '(vm-expunge-folder) vm-recognize-imap-maildrops "^imap:[^:]+:[^:]+:[^:]+:[^:]+:[^:]+:[^:]+" vm-recognize-pop-maildrops "^[^:]+:[^:]+:[^:]+:[^:]+:[^:]+" vm-reply-hook nil vm-reply-ignored-reply-tos nil vm-reply-subject-prefix nil vm-resend-bounced-discard-header-regexp nil vm-resend-bounced-headers '("MIME-Version:" "Content-" "From:" "Sender:" "Reply-To:" "To:" "Cc:" "Subject:" "Newsgroups:" "In-Reply-To:" "References:" "Keywords:" "X-") vm-resend-bounced-message-hook nil vm-resend-discard-header-regexp "\\(\\(X400-\\)?Received:\\|Resent-\\)" vm-resend-headers nil vm-resend-message-hook nil vm-retrieved-spooled-mail-hook nil vm-rfc1153-digest-discard-header-regexp "\\(X400-\\)?Received:" vm-rfc1153-digest-headers '("Resent-" "Date:" "From:" "Sender:" "To:" "Cc:" "Subject:" "Message-ID:" "Keywords:") vm-rfc934-digest-discard-header-regexp nil vm-rfc934-digest-headers '("Resent-" "From:" "Sender:" "To:" "Cc:" "Subject:" "Date:" "Message-ID:" "Keywords:") vm-search-using-regexps nil vm-select-message-hook nil vm-select-new-message-hook nil vm-select-unread-message-hook nil vm-send-digest-hook nil vm-send-using-mime t vm-skip-deleted-messages t vm-skip-read-messages nil vm-spool-file-suffixes nil vm-spooled-mail-waiting-hook nil vm-startup-with-summary t vm-strip-reply-headers nil vm-subject-significant-chars nil vm-summary-format "%n %*%a %-17.17F %-3.3m %2d %4l/%-5c %I\"%s\"\n" vm-summary-highlight-face 'bold vm-summary-mode-hook '(mc-install-read-mode) vm-summary-mode-hooks nil vm-summary-redo-hook nil vm-summary-show-threads nil vm-summary-thread-indent-level 2 vm-summary-uninteresting-senders nil vm-summary-uninteresting-senders-arrow "To: " vm-tale-is-an-idiot nil vm-temp-file-directory "/usr/home/wcp/tmp" vm-thread-using-subject t vm-toolbar-pixmap-directory "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/vm/" vm-trust-From_-with-Content-Length nil vm-undisplay-buffer-hook nil vm-unforwarded-header-regexp "only-drop-this-header" vm-url-browser 'w3-fetch-other-frame vm-url-retrieval-methods '(lynx wget url-w3) vm-url-search-limit 12000 vm-use-menus '(folder motion send mark label sort virtual undo dispose emacs nil help) vm-use-toolbar '(next previous delete/undelete autofile file reply compose print visit quit nil help) vm-virtual-folder-alist nil vm-virtual-mirror t vm-visible-headers '("Resent-" "From:" "Sender:" "To:" "Apparently-To:" "Cc:" "Subject:" "Date:") vm-visit-folder-hook nil vm-visit-when-saving 0 vm-warp-mouse-to-new-frame nil vm-wget-program "wget" vm-window-configuration-file "~/.vm.windows" features '(mail-abbrevs sendmail vm-reply reporter vm-virtual vm-delete highlight-headers vm-page vm-mime vm-save vm-toolbar vm-summary tapestry vm-motion vm-message vm-menu vm-folder vm-misc vm-mouse vm-window tex-mode efs-cu info desktop compile completer submit-cv mailcrypt rfc822 gnuserv jka-compr autoinsert skeleton cmuscheme comint scheme cmuscheme48 disp-table font-lock cus-face blink-cursor avoid paren blink-paren vm-autoload vm-vars vm-startup vm-version vm vc ring vc-hooks zenirc-autoloads xemacs-devel-autoloads xemacs-base-autoloads w3-autoloads vm-autoloads viper-autoloads vhdl-autoloads vc-cc-autoloads vc-autoloads tpu-autoloads tooltalk-autoloads tm-autoloads time-autoloads textools-autoloads text-modes-autoloads texinfo-autoloads supercite-autoloads strokes-autoloads speedbar-autoloads sounds-wav-autoloads sounds-au-autoloads slider-autoloads sh-script-autoloads sgml-autoloads semantic-autoloads scheme-autoloads rmail-autoloads reftex-autoloads psgml-autoloads ps-print-nomule-autoloads prog-modes-autoloads pcl-cvs-autoloads pc-autoloads os-utils-autoloads net-utils-autoloads misc-games-autoloads mine-autoloads mh-e-autoloads mew-autoloads mailcrypt-autoloads mail-lib-autoloads jde-autoloads ispell-autoloads idlwave-autoloads hm--html-menus-autoloads gnus-autoloads gnats-autoloads games-autoloads fsf-compat-autoloads frame-icon-autoloads forms-autoloads footnote-autoloads eudc-autoloads emerge-autoloads eieio-autoloads eicq-autoloads efs-autoloads edt-autoloads edit-utils-autoloads ediff-autoloads edebug-autoloads dired-autoloads debug-autoloads crisp-autoloads cookie-autoloads cc-mode-autoloads calendar-autoloads calc-autoloads c-support-autoloads bbdb-autoloads auctex-autoloads apel-autoloads ada-autoloads Sun-autoloads skk-autoloads mule-base-autoloads lookup-autoloads locale-autoloads leim-autoloads elib-autoloads egg-its-autoloads edict-autoloads Standard-autoloads loadhist auto-show fontl-hooks x-iso8859-1 menubar-items x-menubar mouse mode-motion ccl mule-help itimer auto-save lisp-mode easymenu iso8859-1 page buff-menu lib-complete derived frame text-props cus-start custom widget cl-extra mini-cl cl cl-19 packages backquote very-early-lisp file-coding mule lucid-scrollbars cut-buffer lucid-menubars xface athena-dialogs x tty-frames tty toolbar native-sound scrollbar unix-processes multicast network-streams subprocesses menubar berkeley-db md5 xemacs xim tiff png gif jpeg xpm lisp-float-type berkeley-unix dialog devices window-system c-balloon-help) ) -- walter pelissero http://www.pelissero.org