emacs crash

[Donald Zoch]

We think we've experienced a bug in emacs
It dies with a segmentation fault. 

GNU Emacs 21.4.1
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of Emacs
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Backtrace:

#0  0x40294fd1 in kill () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#1  0x080decb2 in fatal_error_signal (sig=26106) at emacs.c:354
#2  <signal handler called>
#3  0x0804fd50 in increment_row_positions (row=0x85fdd10, delta=1, 
delta_bytes=4) at dispnew.c:1188
#4  0x0804fdef in increment_matrix_positions (matrix=0x84df150, start=65, 
end=65, delta=1, 
    delta_bytes=1) at dispnew.c:927
#5  0x0806c3eb in try_window_id (w=0x8498798) at xdisp.c:11883
#6  0x080711a0 in redisplay_window (window=1212778392, just_this_one_p=1) at 
xdisp.c:10260
#7  0x080736b1 in redisplay_internal (preserve_echo_area=4) at xdisp.c:8910
#8  0x080e8ceb in read_char (commandflag=1, nmaps=2, maps=0xffffaa10, 
prev_event=405378092, 
    used_mouse_menu=0xffffaa68) at keyboard.c:2299
#9  0x080ea551 in read_key_sequence (keybuf=0xffffaba0, bufsize=30, 
prompt=405378092, 
    dont_downcase_last=0, can_return_switch_frame=1, fix_current_buffer=1) at 
keyboard.c:8209
#10 0x080ec3eb in command_loop_1 () at keyboard.c:1451
#11 0x0813d39a in internal_condition_case (bfun=0x80ec1e0 <command_loop_1>, 
handlers=405474436, 
    hfun=0x80e5440 <cmd_error>) at eval.c:1267
#12 0x080e0d5e in command_loop_2 () at keyboard.c:1245
#13 0x0813d2a9 in internal_catch (tag=4, func=0x80e0d30 <command_loop_2>, 
arg=405378092)
    at eval.c:1030
#14 0x080e0b2e in command_loop () at keyboard.c:1224
#15 0x080e0bd9 in recursive_edit_1 () at keyboard.c:950
#16 0x080e0d0e in Frecursive_edit () at keyboard.c:1006
#17 0x080dff09 in main (argc=2, argv=0xffffb254, envp=0xffffb260) at 
emacs.c:1547


Detail from our user on what he was doing when it crashed:

Here's the detail that I have:
Similar to the last failure I had 2 files open in buffers (size:401204B
& 995B)
with the emacs panel split in 2 vertically and a separate buffer in each.
The 401204B file was in the left pane, 995B file in the right pane.
I had just copy/pasted the 995B into the 2nd file which hadn't yet been
saved.
I left clicked the mouse to place the cursor in the left window
and the session disappeared.

I think that this time was slightly different than the last time it failed.
Last time I wasn't doing copy/paste, but was typing text,
I left clicked and then when I typed the 1st character the session
disappeared.
I think that I didn't hit a character this time.


Thanks for any help you can provide.

Donald
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Donald Zoch                    
donald.zoch@amd.com