Re: Emacs crashes while scrolling

[Jan D.]

> Since I updated from CVS on February 23, Emacs has crashed several
> times while I was scrolling (both with the mouse wheel and with the
> down arrow).  The last two times I caught with the debugger.  The
> first backtrace looks bad but not very helpful to me:

...
> Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
> 0x4064db71 in kill () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
> (gdb) backtrace
> #0  0x4064db71 in kill () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
> #1  0x0811c0a6 in abort () at emacs.c:424
> #2  0x080f7f16 in handle_one_xevent (dpyinfo=0x289b, eventp=0xbfffacf0,
>     bufp_r=0xbfffaf24, numcharsp=0xbfffaf28, finish=0x83ca258) at 
> xterm.c:6595
> #3  0x080f6b14 in event_handler_gdk (gxev=0xbfffacf0, ev=0x86a9220, 
> data=0x0)
>     at xterm.c:5754

Recent changes in CVS trigger this abort.  Kim F. Storm is working on
a solution, he has checked in a temporary fix in CVS.

Thanks,

        Jan D.