bug#12388: Emacs 24.2: Crash when maximizing frame on OS X 10.8

[Jan Djärv]

8 sep 2012 kl. 13:04 skrev Arne Schmitz <arne.spam@me.com>:

> Hi,
> 
> when I recently upgraded to OS X 10.8, my Emacs started crashing when hitting 
> the Zoom button (+) of the window / frame. This does not happen all the time, 
> but very often. I use the builds from emacsformacosx.com. I have attached the 
> OS X crash report for this situation.
> 
> The crash does not happen when I run emacs with empty init.el. My init.el 
> loads quite a bit of stuff (cedet, ecb etc). But I cannot determine a single 
> point where it starts to go bad. I guess there might be some feature in Emacs 
> that triggers the crash that is used by one ore more of the packages I load. 
> Maybe the attached backtrace helps.

It is definitly something in you startup file, as it crashes when running 
window-configuration-change hook.

Start emacs and check the value of that variable.  It should give some clue as 
to which package is the culprit.

        Jan D.