I don't remember exactly what I did, but (since I'd seen this problem before), I'd started emacs under gdb. I was using the circe IRC client via M-x circe RET. I don't think I'd typed anything immediately before emacs crashed. In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) of 2015-12-07 Repository revision: 6148555ee5a3d0139ae517803718b3e0357933c7 Configured using: 'configure --enable-checking --enable-check-lisp-object-type --config-cache 'CFLAGS=-Og -g3'' Configured features: SOUND NOTIFY LIBSELINUX LIBXML2 ZLIB Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message dired format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail regexp-opt rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils term/xterm xterm byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cl-extra help-mode easymenu cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib cconv time-date mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese charscript case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote inotify multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 120081 4220) (symbols 48 27737 0) (miscs 40 39 99) (strings 32 31794 4135) (string-bytes 1 568797) (vectors 16 9778) (vector-slots 8 383643 2601) (floats 8 126 564) (intervals 56 176 1) (buffers 976 11) (heap 1024 25898 831))