XEmacs dumps core on RH5.1
Marc Aurel writes:
Now my system seems to be stable, but it still breaks. I've seen it
twice with 21.0-b47, the first time just after sending a mail in Gnus,
the second time just after reading two or three mails in xemacs-beta
when I entered the group to check whether this is a "known problem".
I started XEmacs both times from the WindowMaker dock, so I didn't see any
output after the crash (I remember that output has the instructions on how
to get the info for a qualified bug report). I'm back to starting XEmacs
from the shell now and I'll spend the next days reading and writing as much
mail as possible to reproduce the problem.
Epilogue...
Please tell me that glibc-2.0.7 is "experimental shit" and that the
breakage is not related to XEmacs at all.
RedHat 5.1 has a rather large number of critical erratum rpms.
I'd suggest starting with the earlier dates and working your way to
the present. In particular, there's a separate folder for jpeg and
other graphics stuff. These all (almost all) need to be downloaded
and upgraded. I also updated to gcc 2.8 and friends. I'm also using
WindowMaker and am running this instance off the Dock. If the email
had graphic attachments, that might explain why your XEmacs went bang.
If you have updated to the erratum graphics rpms, then never
mind.
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Rebecca Ore