Xemacs crashes on opening file

Johan Alwall alwall at tsl.uu.se
Mon Jun 12 03:28:58 EDT 2006 

Dear Xemacs bug team,

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.

I really love Xemacs and this problem is a severe check doing programming 
on my PowerBook. Could you please help me?

All the best,
Johan Alwall

The Lisp backtrace:

   dispatch-non-command-events()
   # (condition-case ... . ((nil)))
   progress-feedback-dispatch-non-command-events()
   # bind (ext gutter-string val zmacs-region-stays inhibit-read-only frame 
valu
  message)
   raw-append-progress-feedback("Fontifying pyptfs.f... (regexps)" 6 
#<x-frame "
macs" 0x88c>)
   # bind (tmsg top frame value message label)
   append-progress-feedback(font-lock "Fontifying pyptfs.f... (regexps)" 6 nil)
   # bind (frame value message label)
   display-progress-feedback(font-lock "Fontifying pyptfs.f... (regexps)" 6)
   # bind (str)
   # (unwind-protect ...)
   # bind (args value fmt label)
   progress-feedback-with-label(font-lock "Fontifying %s... (regexps)" 6 
"pyptfs
f")
   # bind (highlights matcher keyword nkeywords iter old-progress progress 
bufna
e keywords case-fold-search loudly loudvar end start)
   font-lock-fontify-keywords-region(1 37824 nil)
   # (unwind-protect ...)
   # bind (modified buffer-undo-list inhibit-read-only old-syntax-table 
buffer-f
le-name buffer-file-truename loudly end beg)
   font-lock-default-fontify-region(1 37824 nil)
   # bind (loudly end beg)
   font-lock-fontify-region(1 37824)
   # (unwind-protect ...)
   byte-code("..." [font-lock-fontify-region] 3)
   # (condition-case ... . ((t (byte-code "Á" ... 2))))
   # bind (was-on font-lock-verbose font-lock-message-threshold aborted)
   # (unwind-protect ...)
   font-lock-default-fontify-buffer()
   # bind (font-lock-verbose)
   font-lock-fontify-buffer()
   # bind (on-p maximum-size arg)
   font-lock-mode(1)
   turn-on-font-lock()
   # bind (explicit-defaults)
   font-lock-set-defaults()
   run-hooks(font-lock-set-defaults)
   # bind (nomodes after-find-file-from-revert-buffer noauto warn error)
   after-find-file(nil t)
   byte-code("..." [buffer-file-number number truename buffer-file-truename 
buf buffer-file-name set-buffer-major-mode erase-buffer nil (byte-code «Â 
   Ã\"ª
Ä       Ã\"Â" [rawfile filename insert-file-contents-literally t 
insert-file-cotents] 3) ((file-error ...)) abbreviate-file-name 
file-name-directory make-local-variable backup-inhibited t after-find-file 
find-file-use-truenames default-directory backup-enable-predicate rawfile 
error nowarn] 3)
   # (condition-case ... . ((t (byte-code "!Ã    @       A\"" ... 3))))
   # (unwind-protect ...)
   # bind (error number truename buf rawfile nowarn filename)
   find-file-noselect("~/matching/src/pyptfs.f")
   # bind (codesys filename)
   find-file("~/matching/src/pyptfs.f" nil)
   # bind (command-debug-status)
   call-interactively(find-file)
   # (condition-case ... . error)
   # (catch top-level ...)
zsh: bus error  xemacs

System Info to help track down your bug:
---------------------------------------

uname -a: Darwin dirac.cgtp.duke.edu 7.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.5.0: Thu 
Aug  5 19:26:16 PDT 2004; root:xnu/xnu-517.7.21.obj~3/RELEASE_PPC  Power 
Macintosh powerpc

./configure  '--prefix=/sw' '--with-dialogs=athena' '--with-widgets=athena' 
'--with-sound=none' '--with-database=gdbm' '--without-ldap' 
'--without-postgresql' '--with-athena=3d'


XEmacs 21.4.15 "Security Through Obscurity" configured for 
`powerpc-apple-darwin7.5.0'.


Compilation / Installation:
   Source code location:              /sw/src/xemacs-21.4.15-1/xemacs-21.4.15
   Installation prefix:               /sw
   Operating system description file: `s/darwin.h'
   Machine description file:          `m/powerpc.h'
   Compiler:                          gcc -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch -Winline 
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wsign-compare -fno-strict-aliasing -Wshadow 
-Wpointer-arith
   Compiler version:                  gcc (GCC) 3.3 20030304 (Apple 
Computer, Inc. build 1640)
   Compiler specs file:               /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/3.3/specs
   Relocating allocator for buffers:  no
   GNU version of malloc:             no
     - The GNU allocators don't work with this system configuration.
   libc:                              system-provided libc on 
powerpc-apple-darwin7.5.0

Window System:
   Compiling in support for the X window system:
     - X Windows headers location:                 /usr/X11R6/include
     - X Windows libraries location:               /usr/X11R6/lib
     - Handling WM_COMMAND properly.
   Compiling in support for the Athena widget set:
     - Athena headers location:                    X11/Xaw3d
     - Athena library to link:                     Xaw3d
   Using Lucid menubars.
   Using Lucid scrollbars.
   Using Athena dialog boxes.
   Using Athena native widgets.

TTY:
   Compiling in support for ncurses.

Images:
   Compiling in support for GIF  images (builtin).
   Compiling in support for XPM  images.
   Compiling in support for PNG  images.
   Compiling in support for JPEG images.
   Compiling in support for TIFF images.

Sound:

Databases:
   Compiling in support for GNU DBM.

Internationalization:

Mail:
   Compiling in support for "dot-locking" mail spool file locking method.

Other Features:
   Inhibiting IPv6 canonicalization at startup.
   Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules.
   Using the new portable dumper.



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