Emacs crashed when visiting specific pages in a browser using EXWM. Turns out this was triggered when the buffer was renamed accordingly. During redisplay, the crash happens for certain strings which are set as `mode-line-format`. I created an example to reproduce this with a stock Emacs configuration, see the attached elisp file. For me, this only triggers when the window is large enough, I suspect smaller windows will prevent the problematic part of the mode-line-format string to be processed. To reproduce: 1. Start Emacs using 'emacs' (not tested with 'emacs -Q') 2. Maximize Frame 3. M-x ielm 4. (load "/path/to/attached/break-emacs.el") 5. M-x crash-test-mode-line-format 6. Observe crash The output of 'bt full' is attached in 'gdb.txt' In GNU Emacs 27.2 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.27, cairo version 1.16.0) Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12010000 System Description: NixOS 20.09 (Nightingale) Configured using: 'configure --prefix=/nix/store/l8wil534cr2bp339s27k6p2i8zyi5y6k-emacs-27.2 --bindir=/nix/store/l8wil534cr2bp339s27k6p2i8zyi5y6k-emacs-27.2/bin --sbindir=/nix/store/l8wil534cr2bp339s27k6p2i8zyi5y6k-emacs-27.2/sbin --includedir=/nix/store/l8wil534cr2bp339s27k6p2i8zyi5y6k-emacs-27.2/include --oldincludedir=/nix/store/l8wil534cr2bp339s27k6p2i8zyi5y6k-emacs-27.2/include --mandir=/nix/store/l8wil534cr2bp339s27k6p2i8zyi5y6k-emacs-27.2/share/man --infodir=/nix/store/l8wil534cr2bp339s27k6p2i8zyi5y6k-emacs-27.2/share/info --docdir=/nix/store/l8wil534cr2bp339s27k6p2i8zyi5y6k-emacs-27.2/share/doc/emacs --libdir=/nix/store/l8wil534cr2bp339s27k6p2i8zyi5y6k-emacs-27.2/lib --libexecdir=/nix/store/l8wil534cr2bp339s27k6p2i8zyi5y6k-emacs-27.2/libexec --localedir=/nix/store/l8wil534cr2bp339s27k6p2i8zyi5y6k-emacs-27.2/share/locale --disable-build-details --with-modules --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xft --with-cairo' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG CAIRO SOUND DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ M17N_FLT LIBOTF ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS LIBSYSTEMD JSON PDUMPER GMP Important settings: value of $EMACSLOADPATH: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Load-path shadows: /run/current-system/sw/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start hides /nix/store/2csx4hz6ab0i6d5h4b7z1afwsydbx02n-emacs-packages-deps/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start /run/current-system/sw/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start hides /nix/store/l8wil534cr2bp339s27k6p2i8zyi5y6k-emacs-27.2/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug sendmail notmuch notmuch-tree notmuch-jump notmuch-hello wid-edit notmuch-show notmuch-print notmuch-crypto notmuch-mua notmuch-message notmuch-draft notmuch-maildir-fcc notmuch-address notmuch-company notmuch-parser notmuch-wash diff-mode easy-mmode coolj notmuch-query goto-addr thingatpt icalendar diary-lib diary-loaddefs cal-menu calendar cal-loaddefs notmuch-tag crm notmuch-lib notmuch-compat pcase hl-line message rmc puny dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader mm-view mml-smime mml-sec epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs mail-utils text-property-search time-date smime dig mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailcap mail-parse rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 mm-util ietf-drums mail-prsvr package easymenu browse-url url-handlers url-parse auth-source cl-seq eieio eieio-core cl-macs eieio-loaddefs password-cache json subr-x map url-vars seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv cl-loaddefs cl-lib tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer 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 composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray 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 threads dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 83001 9776) (symbols 48 9884 1) (strings 32 28953 2047) (string-bytes 1 1044840) (vectors 16 15878) (vector-slots 8 199051 14998) (floats 8 27 44) (intervals 56 319 0) (buffers 1000 14))