Re: Fatal error (6).Aborted (core dumped)

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 20 Mar 2002, Anthony Goreham wrote:

> Emacs dies with the above message every time I run it on the console.
> It still works OK under X.  I am using Emacs 21.2 on RedHat Linux
> (version 7.0 with some updates).

Thank you for your report.

> I have found the problem goes away in either of the following cases:
> 
> 1.  If I comment out anything in my .emacs that might cause emacs to
>     use highlighting (font-lock-mode, show-paren-mode, transient-mark-mode).

What happens if you invoke Emacs with "emacs -q --no-site-file", and then 
turn on these highlighting features from within Emacs?  What happens if 
you evaluate the customizations in your .emacs from a running session 
invoked as mentioned above?

> Is this a bug in emacs, or a problem in my system setup?
> Can anyone give me a clue about what needs fixing?

It's hard to tell without more information.

> In case it helps, here's what I get when I run "gdb emacs core":

It doesn't help, unfortunately, since your binary appears to be stripped 
(no debug info), so the debugger cannot tell anything interesting.  Can 
you produce a backtrace from an unstripped binary?