Xemacs crashes on opening file

[Jerry James]

Hi Johan,

Johan Alwall <alwall at tsl.uu.se> wrote:
> I am running the latest version of Xemacs installed by Fink on my Mac OS X
> 10.4 system, and it crashes (almost) whenever I try to open a file. It crashes
> when I try to open Makefiles, .C files and .f files, but .log files and .txt
> seem to work (and it seems that it's the extension that is the problem - I
> tried ls > tmp.txt and ls > tmp.C, and the .txt file opened but not the .C
> file). One possible problem, viewing the "System info" below, could be that
> xemacs believes that the system is darwin-7.5, when in fact it's 8.6; if I do
> a uname -a it gives:
>
> Darwin apple-laptop.local 8.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.6.0: Tue Mar  7
> 16:58:48 PST 2006; root:xnu-792.6.70.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
>
> I don't understand why Xemacs would think I have darwin-7.5. I have tried to
> produce a core file by setting ulimit -c unlimited before running xemacs, but
> it doesn't seem to work, sorry.

The bit about darwin-7.5 is XEmacs reporting information about the
system where it was compiled.  Are the differences between darwin 7.5
and darwin 8.6 big enough that your crash could be due to interface
differences?

Also, I am concerned about ...

> Load-Path Lisp Shadows:
> ----------------------
> (/sw/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/fortran
> /sw/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/fortran-modes/fortran
> /sw/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/fortran-misc
> /sw/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/fortran-modes/fortran-misc
> /sw/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/f90
> /sw/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/fortran-modes/f90
> /Users/alwall/.xemacs/custom /sw/lib/xemacs-21.4.15/lisp/custom

... this.  What is this file named custom, do you really need it, and
can you rename it to something else?  If you are blocking the loading of
the internal custom.el, then I can well believe that very strange things
would start happening.
-- 
Jerry James, Assistant Professor        james at xemacs.org
Computer Science Department             http://www.cs.usu.edu/~jerry/
Utah State University