Johan W. Klüwer writes: What's your locale? I bet that one or more of LANG, LC_CTYPE, or LC_ALL is set to a UTF-8 locale. ("echo $LANG, $LC_CTYPE, $LC_ALL" at the command line will give this info.) Try starting XEmacs with "LANG=C xemacs-mule". (If this works, it is a workaround, XEmacs should *never* crash because it doesn't like the locale.) Hm. I think I know what you do when the boss isn't looking! That's probably it, although it might not be for the xemacs-mule build. If you install it, then ask rpm where it put the files, you should be able to start gdb on xemacs and a core file, then say (gdb) add-symbol-file /path/to/symbol/file *But* at this point it won't make any difference, because your backtraces are "smashed" (something may have overwritten the memory where the stack is kept) and there's no interesting XEmacs information in them: What often provides better information is to start XEmacs with something like $ gdb `which xemacs-mule` | tee xemacs.trace <gdb banner and initialization info comes here> (gdb) run <crash info comes here> (gdb) At this point a bt will probably give you more interesting information (doesn't always, but gdb is able to protect the stack in many cases). In that case, getting the symbol table installed into gdb using the add-symbol-file command is very very helpful. HTH _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta