Crash when visiting source file

[Steven T. Hatton]

Symptoms:

C-x C-f

/download/org/kdevelop/repository/root/kdevelop/parts/astyle/astyleconfig.h

Where kdevelop/parts/astyle/astyleconfig.h is from the KDevelop source
repository. The file is never displayed in the buffer, and Emacs
appears to be locked up with the exception tht some text may flash up
in the echo area.  The text that is displayed in the echo area while
this is happening is "Loading vc...done". After about a minute, Emacs
disappears from the screen.

This is the output from gdb:

as "i586-suse-linux"...Using host libthread_db library 
"/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/hattons/opt/org/gnu/emacs-cvs/bin/emacs 
Detaching after fork from child process 3041.
Detaching after fork from child process 3042.
Detaching after fork from child process 3043.
Detaching after fork from child process 3044.
Detaching after fork from child process 3045.
Detaching after fork from child process 3046.
Detaching after fork from child process 3047.
Detaching after fork from child process 3048.
Detaching after fork from child process 3049.
Detaching after fork from child process 3050.
Detaching after fork from child process 3051.
Detaching after fork from child process 3052.
Detaching after fork from child process 3053.
Detaching after fork from child process 3054.
Detaching after fork from child process 3055.
Detaching after fork from child process 3056.
Detaching after fork from child process 3057.
Detaching after fork from child process 3058.
Detaching after fork from child process 3059.
Detaching after fork from child process 3060.

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x08130383 in mark_object (arg=143153285) at alloc.c:5427
5427            mark_object (ptr->car);


In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.4 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2005-05-28 on ljosalfr
Distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.60802000
configured using `configure '--prefix=/home/hattons/opt/org/gnu/emacs-cvs''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: POSIX
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  eldoc-mode: t
  delete-selection-mode: t
  pc-selection-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  next-error-follow-minor-mode:  Fol

Recent input:
M-x r e p o r t - e m <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Source file `/home/hattons/.emacs.d/lisp/ecb-snap/ecb-symboldef.el' newer than 
byte-compiled file
Loading edmacro...done
Loading /home/hattons/.emacs.d/lisp/psgml-1.3.1/psgml.el (source)...done
Loading delsel...done
Loading /home/hattons/.session...done
Loading semantic-el...done
Loading eldoc...done
Loading jit-lock...done
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
Loading emacsbug...done