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 (beta23) "Hebe" [Lucid] (i686-pc-linux) of Tue Dec 7 1999 on radioactive.socha.net configured using `configure --compiler=egcs '-cflags=-I/usr/include/db1 -O6 -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=pentiumpro' --error-checking=none --debug=no --verbose --with-scrollbars=athena3d --with-dialogs=athena3d' Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: I tried eval'ing (while t(all-hail-xemacs) Lisp backtrace follows: play-sound-file("/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/sounds/im_so_happy.au") # bind (sound-file extensions data-dir) byte-code("..." [arg 0 face-list max-faces count "*Praise*" glyphp xemacs-logo p "\n" startup-center-spaces set-extent-begin-glyph make-extent "\n\n" insert-face xemacs-praise-message get-face random load-library "sound" xemacs-praise-sound-file split-string sound-extension-list ":" locate-data-directory "sounds" data-dir extensions sound-file file-exists-p device-sound-enabled-p sit-for play-sound-file wait-for-sounds 10] 7) # (unwind-protect ...) # bind (arg) praise-be-unto-xemacs(nil) # bind (arg) all-hail-xemacs() (while t (all-hail-xemacs)) ) eval((while t (all-hail-xemacs))) # bind (expr) eval-interactive((while t (all-hail-xemacs))) # bind (standard-output opoint ignore-quotes eval-last-sexp-arg-internal) eval-last-sexp(nil) # bind (command-debug-status) call-interactively(eval-last-sexp) # (condition-case ... . error) # (catch top-level ...) Aborted (core dumped) #0 0x402ff4e1 in __kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x8078c21 in fatal_error_signal () #2 0x402ff408 in __restore () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/sigaction.c:127 #3 0x40300868 in abort () at ../sysdeps/generic/abort.c:88 #4 0x8078b82 in assert_failed () #5 0x8113b67 in alarm () #6 0x4001d788 in esd_open_sound () from /usr/lib/libesd.so.0 #7 0x4001d98e in esd_play_stream () from /usr/lib/libesd.so.0 #8 0x4001edf8 in esd_play_file () from /usr/lib/libesd.so.0 #9 0x8092223 in esd_play_sound_file () #10 0x811407f in Fplay_sound_file () #11 0x807c3ad in Ffuncall () #12 0x805b25f in execute_optimized_program () #13 0x805d2c3 in Fbyte_code () #14 0x807babd in Feval () #15 0x80801ab in Fprogn () #16 0x805bbb9 in execute_rare_opcode () #17 0x805b092 in execute_optimized_program () #18 0x805af26 in funcall_compiled_function () #19 0x807c522 in Ffuncall () #20 0x805b25f in execute_optimized_program () #21 0x805af26 in funcall_compiled_function () #22 0x807bd1e in Feval () #23 0x80807f4 in Fwhile () #24 0x807b999 in Feval () #25 0x807c385 in Ffuncall () #26 0x805b25f in execute_optimized_program () #27 0x805af26 in funcall_compiled_function () #28 0x807c522 in Ffuncall () #29 0x805b25f in execute_optimized_program () #30 0x805af26 in funcall_compiled_function () #31 0x807c522 in Ffuncall () #32 0x805f1e2 in Fcall_interactively () #33 0x807b20d in Fcommand_execute () #34 0x809f418 in execute_command_event () #35 0x809fc46 in Fdispatch_event () #36 0x8062cab in Fcommand_loop_1 () #37 0x8062ebe in command_loop_1 () #38 0x807ff63 in condition_case_1 () #39 0x8062f9c in command_loop_2 () #40 0x807fe3f in internal_catch () #41 0x80629dc in initial_command_loop () #42 0x807759f in xemacs_21_2_b23_i686_pc_linux () #43 0x8078e1e in main () #44 0x402f91eb in __libc_start_main (main=0x8078d1c <main>, argc=1, argv=0xbffffa14, init=0x804dc18 <_init>, fini=0x8157720 <_fini>, rtld_fini=0x4000a610 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffffa0c) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:90