Description of problem: Emacs crashes after a couple of hours with the message: Fatal error (6)Aborted I usually leave Emacs open when I go home from work. When I return the next morning, I see the above message. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ rpm -qa | grep emacs emacs-22.1-8.fc8 emacs-common-22.1-8.fc8 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Emacs and leave it open f.ex. over the night. I start Emacs via the GNOME menu. Actual results: Emacs crashes with the message "Fatal error (6)Aborted". Expected results: Emacs should not crash. Additional info: Fedora 8 with the proprietary ATI drivers.
If emacs is aborting, it should be possible to get a core dump. Try adding "ulimit -c unlimited" to your .bash_profile and see if you can get us a core dump. Chip
Created attachment 291362 [details] Core dump for Emacs crash. Please find the core dump attached. The crash was slightly different today: Emacs was running in another workspace since yesterday. This morning I switched to the workspace with Emacs in it and I could see the Emacs window for a short moment before it crashed.
Should I install some of the debuginfo packages? I tried gdb emacs core.8588, but there are no debug symbols there.
It stops crashing if I hide the toolbar (tool-bar-mode nil) - so that is a workaround for me at least. From what I can see from the core dump, it crashes when trying to read new.xpm: /usr/share/emacs/22.1/etc/images/new.xpm
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