bug#962: 23.0.60; Crash in bootstrapping

bug#962: 23.0.60; Crash in bootstrapping

[Richard M. Stallman]

Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

On Debian, with sources fetched at 07:10 EDT, bootstrapping
crashes trying to compile bytecomp.el.  I ran bootstrap-emacs
under GDB with no arguments; it crashed in malloc_set_state.

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
/home/rms/emacs-cvs/etc/DEBUG for instructions.


In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.6 (mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.11)
 of 2008-09-10 on lemote-menglan
configured using `configure  'CFLAGS=-O0 -g -Wno-pointer-sign' 'mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu' 'build_alias=mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu' 'target_alias=mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: RMAIL

Minor modes in effect:
  gpm-mouse-mode: t
  tooltip-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
  abbrev-mode: t

Recent input:
ESC f ESC f ESC f ESC d ESC d ESC q C-n C-c C-c C-d 
x C-d x C-d C-f C-d C-d C-d C-d x C-x C-s C-d C-d x 
C-x C-s C-u C-u C-n C-u C-n C-u C-n C-n C-@ C-n ESC 
f ESC f C-f r ESC , RET RET M a y b e SPC y o u SPC 
c a n SPC c h a n g e SPC t h a t , SPC i f SPC y o 
u SPC c a r g e ESC b C-f h C-e SPC a SPC l o w SPC 
p r i c e . RET RET W h a t SPC d o e s SPC i t SPC 
c o s t SPC y o u SPC t o SPC s DEL m a k e SPC a n 
d SPC e n d SPC a SPC d i s k ? ESC b ESC b ESC b s 
C-n C-c C-c C-d x C-d C-d x r C-u C-p C-p C-p C-p C-k 
C-k C-u C-u C-n C o n g r a t u a l DEL DEL l a t i 
o n s SPC o n SPC t y h e SPC n e w ESC b ESC b C-f 
C-d C-e SPC r e l e a s e . RET C-c C-c C-d x 1 r C 
o n r a u DEL DEL DEL g r a t u a t i o n s SPC o n 
SPC t h e SPC n e w SPC r e l e a s e . RET C-c C-c 
C-d x ESC x r e p o r t SPC e a DEL m a TAB RET

Recent messages:
Expunging deleted messages...done
Expunging deleted messages...done
Sending...
Wrote /home/rms/outgoing/out-22
Sending...done
Expunging deleted messages...done
Sending...
Wrote /home/rms/outgoing/out-23
Sending...done
Expunging deleted messages...done

bug#962: Acknowledgement (23.0.60; Crash in bootstrapping)

[Richard M. Stallman]

This was due to a strange `ulimit -d' command in my .bash_profile.
Even stranger, that was present since 1998 (if not before), and never
caused any trouble until the beginning of the year.

Please close this bug report.