With emacs-20.7-14 on Alpha after the followin command on a console: $ emacs -nw /usr/share/texmf/doc/latex/sidecap/sc2demo.tex and hitting 'M-x' to get to a command minibuffer results in Fatal error (6).Aborted and emacs immediately exits. There is no such problem with the same emacs version on i386 installtion or on Alpha with 6.2 distribution. Note: the machine in question has installed auctex-9.9p emacs macros. Michal michal
Tried without that package? I have no idea what's causing this - assigning to Matt.
Sigh! I just got "Fatal error (6).Aborted" from the same version of emacs on RC1 for alpha. This time emacs was started with -nw flags in a terminal window and things happened apparently without any provocation. I was not even typing at that time but looking at the code and trying to think.
Next attempt in tryint to start this editor with two files from two directories as command line arguments immediately ended up with "Fatal error (11).Segmentation fault". I guess that I should try rawhide version instead.
This was fixed by the emacs-20.7-15 package. See bug 17893. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17893 ***