Eli Zaretskii writes: > Please attach a debugger and show the backtrace. The file etc/DEBUG > explains how to look for a place that infloops, perhaps you could > follow that and provide a more detailed information. There's an infinite loop somewhere in exec_byte_code. I've attached the backtrace at the point. Moreover, sending emacs a SIGUSR2 does invoke the lisp debugger with the following message: Debugger entered--entering a function: * #[0 "\301\300\302\"\207" [(0 1) set-match-data evaporate] 3 "\n\n(fn)"]() * funcall(#[0 "\301\300\302\"\207" [(0 1) set-match-data evaporate] 3 "\n\n(fn)"]) jit-lock-fontify-now(1111 1611) jit-lock-function(1111) redisplay_internal\ \(C\ function\)() If this is not enough, I can try to look into it more later.