emacs19, hamm and segmentation faults
Hello.
On Sunday, I finally upgraded my home system from bo to hamm (I've
been postponing the upgrade because I had a lot of important work to
finish, and I didn't want to risk breaking the system until that was
done).
I used apt-get and the official Debian CD (it came with the new
edition of the Debian book).
There were small problems here and there, but nothing more than I
expected, and all the diagnostics I ran (apt-get check especially)
gave (and give) no indication of trouble.
There is one big problem though---trying to invoke emacs (19.34)
always produces a segmentation fault (all users, from the console or
from within X). Just about my whole work-life happens from inside
emacs, so this is, for me, dead serious.
The problem is unique to emacs as far as I've been able to tell so
far; no other program I've tried gives rise to any problem.
I suppose I could remove and then reinstall it, or try upgrading to
emacs20 (or switching to xemacs). I'd rather not though, and I'm
scared that the problem might be an indication of some deeper problem
with memory allocation or something.
Any advice? Thank you very much,
Jim McCloskey
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