I have tried xemacs -vanilla, with nearly the same result. xemacs -vanilla brings up the xemacs window, and the minibuffer does not say "memory exhausted" immediately, however, any attempt to open a file, use tab-completion for a M-x command, load a file, etc. all result in the "memory exhausted" error. I have the same results for xemacs -nw -vanilla: as soon as i try to open a file, or use tab completion on M-x, or any other process, i receive the Memory Exhausted error. Actually, on opening a file, i receive TWO minibuffer "memory exhausted" statements: MemoryExhaustedMemoryExhausted (this only happens in the -nw version) I can't get M-x report emacs or M-x describe-installation to work, either, so i will include in here the installation file. I can also send you the output of ktrace/kdump if you like, though i am not sure if it is helpful to you-- (it is not so obvious as i read it if it is helpful.) Thank you. --Allison Coates Included here is the installation file named "installation" % more Installation uname -a: FreeBSD cello.CS.Berkeley.EDU 4.6-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE #1: Wed Jul 3 14:14:39 PDT 2002 root＠fred:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FRED i386 ./configure '--with-clash-detection' '--lockdir=/var/run/emacs/lock' '--with-sound=native' '--with-session=yes' '--site-includes=/usr/local/include' '--site-libraries=/usr/local/lib' '--gung-ho=yes' '--with-ldap=no' '--with-site-lisp' '--with-database=berkdb' '--with-png=yes' '--with-tiff=yes' '--x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib' '--x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include' '--prefix=/usr/local' 'i386--freebsd' XEmacs 21.1.14 "Cuyahoga Valley" configured for `i386--freebsd'. Where should the build process find the source code? /usr/ports/editors/xemacs21/work/xemacs-21.1.14 What installation prefix should install use? /usr/local What operating system and machine description files should XEmacs use? `s/freebsd.h' and `m/intel386.h' What compiler should XEmacs be built with? cc -O -pipe Should XEmacs use the GNU version of malloc? yes Should XEmacs use the relocating allocator for buffers? yes What window system should XEmacs use? x11 Where do we find X Windows header files? /usr/X11R6/include Where do we find X Windows libraries? /usr/X11R6/lib Additional header files: /usr/local/include Additional libraries: /usr/local/lib Runtime library search path: /usr/local/lib:/usr/X11R 6/lib Compiling in support for XAUTH. Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG image handling. Compiling in support for (builtin) GIF image handling. Compiling in support for JPEG image handling. Compiling in support for TIFF image handling. Compiling in native sound support. Compiling in support for Berkeley DB. Compiling in support for ncurses. Compiling in support for proper session-management. Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. Using Athena dialog boxes. Compiling in DLL support. Clash detection will use "/var/run/emacs/lock" for locking files. movemail will use "flock" for locking mail spool files. Using Lisp_Objects with minimal tagbits. Using indexed lrecord implementation.