Perhaps related, the current trunk (revision 109586) segfaults on
startup ("emacs -Q") on GNU/Linux, with the following backtrace:
#0 0x00007ffff5bc0131 in g_type_check_instance_cast ()
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#1 0x00000000005d6de6 in xg_mark_data () at gtkutil.c:2173
#2 0x0000000000692f28 in Fgarbage_collect () at alloc.c:5472
#3 0x000000000068bd27 in maybe_gc () at lisp.h:3536
#4 0x00000000006bc2ab in eval_sub (form=23619014) at eval.c:2056
#5 0x0000000000706a9c in readevalloop (readcharfun=15433282,
stream=0x168a720, sourcename=23641873, printflag=0, unibyte=15317634,
readfun=15317634, start=15317634, end=15317634) at lread.c:1814
#6 0x0000000000704998 in Fload (file=23634305, noerror=15317682,
nomessage=15317682, nosuffix=15317634, must_suffix=15317634)
at lread.c:1308
#7 0x00000000006bf216 in Ffuncall (nargs=4, args=0x7fffffffc358)
at eval.c:2827
#8 0x000000000072e4de in exec_byte_code (bytestr=12100273, vector=12100389,
maxdepth=20, args_template=15317634, nargs=0, args=0x0) at bytecode.c:898
#9 0x00000000006c006c in funcall_lambda (fun=12100229, nargs=1,
arg_vector=0xb8a325) at eval.c:3043
#10 0x00000000006bf458 in Ffuncall (nargs=2, args=0x7fffffffc838)
at eval.c:2860
#11 0x000000000072e4de in exec_byte_code (bytestr=12099201, vector=12099309,
maxdepth=16, args_template=15317634, nargs=0, args=0x0) at bytecode.c:898
#12 0x00000000006c006c in funcall_lambda (fun=12099133, nargs=2,
arg_vector=0xb89eed) at eval.c:3043
#13 0x00000000006bf458 in Ffuncall (nargs=3, args=0x7fffffffcd18)
at eval.c:2860
#14 0x000000000072e4de in exec_byte_code (bytestr=12099633, vector=12099829,
maxdepth=16, args_template=15317634, nargs=0, args=0x0) at bytecode.c:898
#15 0x00000000006c006c in funcall_lambda (fun=12099565, nargs=1,
arg_vector=0xb8a0f5) at eval.c:3043
#16 0x00000000006bf458 in Ffuncall (nargs=2, args=0x7fffffffd1f8)
at eval.c:2860
#17 0x000000000072e4de in exec_byte_code (bytestr=12140633, vector=12142301,
maxdepth=72, args_template=0, nargs=0, args=0x7fffffffd758)
at bytecode.c:898
#18 0x00000000006bfc09 in funcall_lambda (fun=12140581, nargs=0,
arg_vector=0x7fffffffd758) at eval.c:2977
#19 0x00000000006bf458 in Ffuncall (nargs=1, args=0x7fffffffd750)
at eval.c:2860
#20 0x000000000072e4de in exec_byte_code (bytestr=12136441, vector=12136893,
maxdepth=32, args_template=0, nargs=0, args=0x7fffffffdb90)
at bytecode.c:898
#21 0x00000000006bfc09 in funcall_lambda (fun=12136389, nargs=0,
arg_vector=0x7fffffffdb90) at eval.c:2977
#22 0x00000000006bf81f in apply_lambda (fun=12136389, args=15317634)
at eval.c:2920
#23 0x00000000006bd037 in eval_sub (form=15547702) at eval.c:2204
#24 0x00000000006bc15f in Feval (form=15547702, lexical=15317634)
at eval.c:2021
#25 0x00000000005e31f3 in top_level_2 () at keyboard.c:1161
#26 0x00000000006ba27c in internal_condition_case (
bfun=0x5e31d6 <top_level_2>, handlers=15369330, hfun=0x5e2cb6
<cmd_error>)
at eval.c:1308
#27 0x00000000005e322d in top_level_1 (ignore=15317634) at keyboard.c:1169
#28 0x00000000006b9b39 in internal_catch (tag=15365202,
func=0x5e31f5 <top_level_1>, arg=15317634) at eval.c:1065
#29 0x00000000005e3151 in command_loop () at keyboard.c:1124
#30 0x00000000005e2502 in recursive_edit_1 () at keyboard.c:752
#31 0x00000000005e28dd in Frecursive_edit () at keyboard.c:816
#32 0x00000000005e033f in main (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffe5c8) at emacs.c:1666
Lisp Backtrace:
"load" (0xffffc360)
0xb8a280 PVEC_COMPILED
"tty-find-type" (0xffffcd20)
"tty-run-terminal-initialization" (0xffffd200)
"command-line" (0xffffd758)
"normal-top-level" (0xffffdb90)
The file it tries to load is term/xterm.elc.