Re: xemacs-21.5.8 crash on start up

Doug> This xemacs does not work at all. I will be reinstalling the Doug> old version in about 30 sec. Try it in a terminal with `xemacs -nw' and if that works, `M-x report-emacs-bug RET' to format a bug report with full information about your configuration. It is _really important_ to get a backtrace; start it in the debugger (eg for gdb bash$ gdb /path/to/xemacs | tee xemacs-21.5.8-backtrace (gdb) run -vanilla <SIGSEGV info> (bt) (quit) bash$ works for me, the backtrace is in xemacs-21.5.8-backtrace in cwd). Doug> I'll try this after the next upgrade If you don't give us an Installation file and a backtrace, it is highly likely that things won't get better. There are two (maybe three now) known crashes on Red Hat that won't be auto-detected[1] but can be manually configured around. Footnotes: [1] Translation: they probably could be detected, but as they are all-too-typical cases of Red Hat pulling the trigger with the pistol still in the holster, there's little enthusiasm here for putting in the effort to write up arcane and probably unreliable tests. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py