Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 249668
XEmacs often crashes when "VI emulation" is activated.
Last modified: 2015-01-07 19:15:58 EST
Description of problem: Xemacs crashes when activating VI emulation. Sometimes it crashes immediately when activated. Sometimes "Vi emulation" has to be unactivated and then activated again. If not crashed, try close xemacs and launch again. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xemacs-21.4.15-11.EL4.i386 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Used vncserver and vncviewer. 1. xemacs 2. Push Option>Keyboard and mouse > VI emulation 3. Questions of Xemacs a) "Inhibit startup message" ... yes/no, b) "Level of familiarity with emac" ... scale 1 to 5 , c) "made this change permanent" ... yes/no ## check whatever, it seems it doesn't matter, if u check positively question "made it permanent" next time it would crash right away when "VI emulation" is activated 4. Xemacs crashes, It writes "core dump" or "Segmentation fault" Actual results: Xemacs crashes when VI emulation is activated. Expected results: Activation of VI emulation Additional info: core file in attachment is compromised, orig was more than 20MB
Created attachment 160004 [details] bz2 core file
User psklenar@redhat.com's account has been closed
Created attachment 322073 [details] a patch for vi emulation crash if we make assertions non-fatal, this crash is avoided and everything seems to work OK...
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4.9 is the last regular update of RHEL4 and it should be minimal. Closing this bug, as this works correctly in RHEL5.