If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger, please include the output from the following gdb commands: `bt full' and `xbacktrace'. If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file /usr/local/share/emacs/23.0.90/etc/DEBUG for instructions. (gdb) bt full #0 0x28ccba07 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.7 No symbol table info available. #1 0x0811c7e4 in fatal_error_signal (sig=11) at emacs.c:403 No locals. #2 No symbol table info available. #3 Fdecode_coding_region (start=Cannot access memory at address 0xbf0a2329 ) at coding.c:8639 No locals. Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?) (gdb) xbacktrace "decode-coding-region" (0xbfbfe070) "progn" (0xbfbfe134) "unwind-protect" (0xbfbfe1d4) "save-current-buffer" (0xbfbfe284) "with-current-buffer" (0xbfbfe304) "let" (0xbfbfe3e4) "with-temp-buffer" (0xbfbfe464) "eval" (0xbfbfe508) "eval-last-sexp-1" (0xbfbfe634) "eval-last-sexp" (0xbfbfe7b4) "call-interactively" (0xbfbfe974) In GNU Emacs 23.0.90.1 (i386-unknown-freebsd7.1, GTK+ Version 2.14.7) of 2009-02-16 on sea.sakura.ad.jp Windowing system distributor `Colin Harrison', version 11.0.70400002 configured using `configure '--without-freetype' '--without-xft'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: ja_JP.eucJP value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: nil value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: japanese-iso-8bit-unix default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Group Minor modes in effect: gnus-topic-mode: t gnus-undo-mode: t auto-insert-mode: t iswitchb-mode: t tooltip-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t global-auto-composition-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: ESC x r e p o r Recent messages: nnml: Reading incoming mail (3 new)...done Reading active file via nnml...done Generating the cache active file...done No new newsgroups Checking new news...done