[Bug: 21.5-b31] seg fault

[Don Cohen]

Stephen J. Turnbull writes:
 > Don Cohen writes:
 > 
 >  > I was having trouble with the keyboard or mouse somehow inserting
 >  > random junk in my input stream so was about to look at what was
 >  > actually being sent.  I had put (recent-keys ) into *scratch* and
 >  > then did m-x eval-print <enter> when I got the crash.
 >  > I had done this earlier without incident.
 >  > My init also contained
 >  > (set-recent-keys-ring-size 10000)
turned out to be my touch pad sending scroll events too eagerly,
things are improved by turning down the sensitivity

 >  > I have no core file but am prepared to help further.
Evidently the further help will be in better reporting future
crashes. 

 > No core, no help.  Lisp by definition can't crash :-), so the problem
 > is in the C runtime.  Without a C backtrace, there's nothing we can
 > do.
The problem (at least part of it) is that fedora 16 seems to come
with ulimit core = 0 - I've now fixed that for next time.

 > Also, your XEmacs appears to be provided by a distro, and very likely
 > the symbols have been stripped.  If so, please try to find a debug
 > package for XEmacs, install the exact same version as your XEmacs
 > package, and use that symbol file to produce a usable backtrace.
 > Without the symbols, it is almost certain that we can learn nothing.
yum install xemacs-debuginfo
now done