This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, not to your local site managers!! Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. In XEmacs 21.2 (beta33) "Melpomene" [Lucid] (i686-pc-linux, Mule) of Sun May 21 2000 on lotusland.demon.co.uk configured using `configure --with-gcc '--cflags=-O3 -mcpu=i686 -fno-strength-reduce' --ldflags=-Wl,-E --dynamic --debug=no --error-checking=none --with-dialogs=athena --with-scrollbars=lucid --with-widgets=athena --with-sound=native --with-mule' Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: Using Gnus 5.8.5 to display an article with `gnus-treat-display-smileys' set to `t', causes a crash if the article contains `^^^' as is commonly used to indicate specific text on a given line. The crash is the result of an the assert at line 1566 -n `redisplay-output.c' failing. Sorry, about the backtrace - I have no debug support, but can reproduce at will:- (gdb) bt #0 0x402f47f1 in __kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x80afdc3 in fatal_error_signal () #2 0x402f4728 in __restore () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/sigaction.c:127 #3 0x402f5c01 in abort () at ../sysdeps/generic/abort.c:88 #4 0x80b282b in assert_failed () #5 0x8166e12 in redisplay_output_pixmap () #6 0x81a0b41 in x_output_display_block () #7 0x8166f6f in redisplay_output_display_block () #8 0x8164712 in output_display_line () #9 0x8166808 in redisplay_output_window () #10 0x815d84b in redisplay_window () #11 0x8163200 in redisplay_windows () #12 0x815cb2a in redisplay_window () #13 0x815da63 in redisplay_frame () #14 0x815dbce in redisplay_device () #15 0x815ddeb in redisplay_without_hooks () #16 0x8162d2e in redisplay () #17 0x80ede62 in Fnext_event () #18 0x8099a8a in Fcommand_loop_1 () #19 0x8099d15 in command_loop_1 () #20 0x80bb55f in condition_case_1 () #21 0x8099e77 in command_loop_2 () ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- #22 0x80bb42c in internal_catch () #23 0x80997ae in initial_command_loop () #24 0x80b0c34 in sort_args () #25 0x80b2a4b in main () #26 0x402eea3a in __libc_start_main (main=0x80b294c <main>, argc=1, argv=0xbffffc44, init=0x807f7b0 <_init>, fini=0x81c43d0 <_fini>, rtld_fini=0x4000a470 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffffc3c) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:92 Recent keystrokes: right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right C-insert q next down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down RET M-: s e t - v a r RET M-x up down s e t - v a r TAB RET Sh-insert RET C-g M-: ( s e t q SPC Sh-insert SPC n i l ) RET C-h f up Sh-insert RET C-g RET = Q y up RET B DEL y q prior misc-user Recent messages (most recent first): Deleting article /home/mike/News/drafts/queue/1 in queue... Do you really want to delete this article forever? (y or n) Yes Do you really want to delete this article forever? (y or n) Generating summary...done Generating summary... Scoring...done Scoring... Fetching headers for nndraft:queue...done Fetching headers for nndraft:queue... Retrieving newsgroup: nndraft:queue... -- Mike <mike(a)lotusland.demon.co.uk&gt;