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> From: Thorsten <quintfall@googlemail.com>
> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:04:54 +0200
> 
> I do have quite a few Emacs crashes recently, but looking into the main
> log files of my system did not yield any related messages - where can I
> find them?

If your system log doesn't have anything appropriate, it probably
means that Emacs aborted itself, rather than crashed.

The way to find out why is to run Emacs under a debugger.  Then, when
Emacs aborts, the debugger will kick in, and you will be able to poke
around for reasons.