Aidan, I downloaded xemacs 21.4.21 and built it with the same configuration options as the one that was installed and could not reproduce the crash. Strangely, even though I specified --prefix=/usr/local/xemacs-21.4.21, it would still install into /usr and /usr/lib.

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Aidan Kehoe [mailto:kehoea＠parhasard.net] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 4. Juni 2008 17:15 > An: Thomas Mittelstädt > Cc: XEmacs Beta > Betreff: Re: [Bug: 21.4.21] xemacs segfaults when doing "ls -l" in shell > buffer on 64-bit ubuntu linux 8.04 > > > Ar an ceathrú lá de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Thomas Mittelstädt: > > > Even when I use ls -l --color=never it crashes, but only when my current > directory is $HOME. > > OK; I suspect you have some non-ASCII or perhaps non-Latin-1 files that > provoke that there. Are you in a position where you can provoke this > under GDB? I’d be really interested in the specific line number that > crashes. > > Also, beyond that, it’s not surprising that current Mercurial sources > don’t crash there, since they leave the string matching to the X11 > server in that context. > > -- > ¿Dónde estará ahora mi sobrino Yoghurtu Nghé, que tuvo que huir > precipitadamente de la aldea por culpa de la escasez de rinocerontes?