Re: Ediff crashes GTK+ version of Emacs under X

[Sven Joachim]

Recently I wrote:

>Running ediff reprodrucibly crashes the GTK+-enabled version of Emacs
>under X. Simply try "M-x ediff-files" or "M-x ediff-buffers" and the
>Emacs window disappears as soon as ediff starts. Or try the command
>
>emacs -Q -D --eval '(ediff-files "/etc/passwd" "/etc/group")'
>
>in a terminal, which should reproduce the bug and crash with a
>segmentation fault. Emacs built with the Lucid toolkit is not affected
>by this bug, nor does it occur if Emacs is run with the "-nw" option
>in a text terminal.

Somehow this seems to be related to my window manager, IceWM. At
least, the crash does not occur with other window managers I tested
(9wm, twm, tvwm, blackbox, fvwm95, kwin), or with no window manager at
all.

My IceWM version is 1.2.20+21pre1-3 from Debian 3.1.