Re: abort(xassert) in xselect.c

[Jan D.]

> Symptoms:
>
> Misc work for some hours, mostly Gnus, when this happened (after
> recently having copied text from an *Article* buffer into
> a newly created file.
>
> The object referenced when this happened is exactly that text
> (see "pp obj" at end of the gdb output):
>
> I'm running the infamous Klipper (some old version) which queries the
> selection every few seconds...

I think it is the same bug as I'm debugging.  Somehow the string 
returned from xselect-convert-to-string turns into a multibyte string 
when it comes to lisp_data_to_selection_data.

        Jan D.