Here is another backtrace for the same freeze issue (attached). This time it was causing by doing C-x C-f of png files twice in the same buffer. Here's how to recreate: 1. cd to src/ dir 2. gdb ./emacs 3. r -Q 4. C-x C-f SOMEFILE1.png (emacs has not frozen yet) 5. C-x C-f SOMEFILE2.png (emacs freezes instantly) =========================================== Built on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Configure options: --prefix=/home/kmodi/usr_local/apps/6/emacs/master_debug 'CPPFLAGS=-fgnu89-inline -I/home/kmodi/usr_local/6/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include' 'CFLAGS=-ggdb3 -O0' 'CXXFLAGS=-ggdb3 -O0' 'LDFLAGS=-L/home/kmodi/usr_local/6/lib -L/home/kmodi/usr_local/6/lib64 -ggdb3' Features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK2 X11