#382701 xemacs21: Segfault on startup. Fatal error (11)

Package:
xemacs21-mule
Source:
xemacs21
Description:
highly customizable text editor -- Mule binary
Submitter:
Manfred Paul
Date:
2013-10-13 10:10:17 UTC
Severity:
important
#382701#5
Date:
2006-08-12 19:02:14 UTC
From:
To:
Today I tried xeamcs, but it there are some strange bugs.
I started xemacs21 by typing:

?> $ xemacs21

I got:

Fatal error (11).

Your files have been auto-saved.
Use `M-x recover-session' to recover them.

Your version of XEmacs was distributed with a PROBLEMS file that  may describe
your crash, and with luck a workaround.  Please check it first, but do report
the crash anyway.  Please report this bug by invoking M-x report-emacs-bug,
or by selecting `Send Bug Report' from the Help menu.  If necessary, send
ordinary email to `xemacs-beta@xemacs.org'.  *MAKE SURE* to include the XEmacs
configuration from M-x describe-installation, or equivalently the file
Installation in the top of the build tree.

*Please* try *hard* to obtain a C stack backtrace; without it, we are unlikely
to be able to analyze the problem.  Locate the core file produced as a result
of this crash (often called `core' or `core.<process-id>', and located in
the directory in which you started XEmacs or your home directory), and type

  gdb /usr/bin/xemacs21 core

then type `where' at the debugger prompt.  No GDB on your system?  You may
have DBX, or XDB, or SDB.  (Ask your system administrator if you need help.)
If no core file was produced, enable them (often with `ulimit -c unlimited'
in case of future recurrance of the crash.

Lisp backtrace follows:

  # bind (frame-being-created)
  make-frame(nil #<x-device on ":0.0" 0xb13>)
  frame-initialize()
  # bind (debugger debug-on-error command-line-args-left)
  command-line()
  # (condition-case ... . ((t (byte-code "      �" ... 1))))
  # bind (error-data)
  normal-top-level()
  # (condition-case ... . error)
  # (catch top-level ...)
Segmentation fault

Then I tried:

?> $ gdb /usr/bin/xemacs21 core

I got:

GNU gdb 6.4.90-debian
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".

/home/manfred/core: No such file or directory.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/xemacs21
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
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[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1483462976 (LWP 14668)]
(no debugging symbols found)
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(no debugging symbols found)

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1483462976 (LWP 14668)]
0xa7548a7f in _XInitOM () from /usr/lib/X11/locale/common/xomGeneric.so.2
(gdb)

I am using xinerama with a T23. Could this problem be related to an X error?

#382701#10
Date:
2006-09-10 15:47:06 UTC
From:
To:
severity 382701 important
thanks
[...]

I've downgraded the severity of this bug, because xemacs21 is
usable at least on my system, twm 1:1.0.1-4 and xterm 210-3.

BTW, are the following commands caused the same problem?

  xemacs21 -nw -q -no-site-file
  xemacs21 -nw -q
  xemacs21 -nw
  xemacs21 -q -no-site-file
  xemacs21 -q

Thanks,
--
Tatsuya Kinoshita

#382701#17
Date:
2013-10-13 09:54:29 UTC
From:
To:
Dear submitter,

as the package xemacs21 has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see http://bugs.debian.org/725883

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org.

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