PUYDT Julien <julien.puydt@laposte.net> writes: [...] > Does dpkg-reconfigure emacs21 crash? If yes, find another emacs21*.deb, > as the one you use seems bad. No. And generally, in text-only mode, emacs21 works well. My question was specific about X. I think, Gaël has sufficiently explained, why it crashes there. Johannes -- ~/.signature under construction