xemacs-19.15 on a hamm system

[Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu>]

I am running the unstable (hamm) distribution of Debian.  According to
dselect my libraries etc. are up-to-date with those available in the
distributions hamm, hamm/contrib, and hamm/non-free on ftp.debian.org.

At some point in the last few weeks, xemacs-19.15 started segfaulting
and dumping core during the start-up for me.  If I twiddle my ~/.emacs
file and delete things like (display-time) I can get it to start but
it soon dies.  The behaviour seems to be related to loading files.

I just re-installed the package xemacs19_19.15-3.1.deb to see if that
would help but it didn't.  Interestingly I am able to run this program
on my home Debian system which is also running the hamm distribution.

I enclose part of the dump and an indication of which libraries are
used.  I would appreciate suggestions of what to change.

 $ ldd /usr/bin/xemacs-19.15 
	 libXaw.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d/libXaw.so.6 (0x4000b000)
	 libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x4005d000)
	 libcompface.so.1 => /usr/lib/libcompface.so.1 (0x4006a000)
	 libpng.so.1 => /usr/lib/libpng.so.1 (0x40075000)
	 libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x4008b000)
	 libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4009d000)
	 libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x400df000)
	 libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x400e8000)
	 libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x400fd000)
	 libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40108000)
	 libncurses.so.3.0 => /lib/libncurses.so.3.0 (0x401a6000)
	 libdb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libdb.so.1 (0x401e2000)
	 libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x401f1000)
	 libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x401fa000)
 $ xemacs  

 Fatal error (11).
 Your files have been auto-saved.
 Use `M-x recover-session' to recover them.
  ... # standard request message deleted
 Lisp backtrace follows:

   # bind (current-load-list standard-input load-file-name)
   # (unwind-protect ...)
   # (unwind-protect ...)
   # (unwind-protect ...)
   # (unwind-protect ...)
   # (unwind-protect ...)
   # bind (nosuffix nomessage noerror file init-file-user)
   # (unwind-protect ...)
   # bind (debug-on-error debug-on-error-from-init-file debug-on-error-should-be-set debug-on-error-initial command-line-args-left)
   # (unwind-protect ...)
   # (unwind-protect ...)

 $ gdb /usr/bin/xemacs core
  ... # more standard messages deleted
 #0  0x8075d93 in Fbacktrace ()
 (gdb) where
 #0  0x8075d93 in Fbacktrace ()
 #1  0x806e1b9 in fatal_error_signal ()
 #2  0xbfffeba0 in ?? ()


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