Hank Chiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > 0xb777a46b in _XimOffKeysCheck () > from /usr/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/ximcp.so.2
segv is what you get from dereferencing a NULL pointer, or from accessing memory w/o proper privs or alignment, or other memory-related problems. (there is always the random gamma ray -- unlikely if this is reproducible. :-) after the message, the first line gives the address and function name of the offending code, and the second in which file (shared object library, here) that code is to be found. this particular library seems to be installed as part of the system, judging from the /usr/lib/X11 prefix, which means you cannot easily debug it directly unless you are prepared to build and install (under another prefix) X11 w/ debugging support. however, you can debug it from the emacs side. it looks like you have found the gdb "continue" command. now you need to dig into the "bt" command. for this command to be useful, you need to build emacs w/ debugging support (normally "gcc -g" suffices). if you can't/won't do that, there is no point reading the rest of this message. the aim at this stage is to determine whether or not it is emacs' fault or whether it is the library's fault, so as to be able to procure a fix yourself, and/or report the situation to the appropriate maintainers (the latter called "spreading the joy" by curmudgeons everywhere ;-). thi _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
