Re: Emacs 22.0.50.1 crash on make_uninit_multibyte_string

[Daniel Barrett]

On September 8, 2005, Kim F. Storm wrote:
>Daniel Barrett <dbarrett@blazemonger.com> writes:
>> On September 8, 2005, Kim F. Storm wrote:
>>>Can you provide an "xbacktrace" and "bt full" backtrace.

(gdb) xbacktrace
"vm-left-justify-string"
"vm-reencode-mime-encoded-words-in-string"
"format"
"list"
"eval"
"vm-summary-sprintf"
"vm-su-summary"
"vm-stuff-attributes"
"vm-stuff-virtual-attributes"
"vm-set-xxxx-flag"
"vm-set-new-flag"
"vm-show-current-message"
"vm-scroll-forward"
"call-interactively"

(gdb) bt full
#0  make_uninit_multibyte_string (nchars=85, nbytes=85) at alloc.c:1880
        string = Variable "string" is not available.

>Please use M-x report-emacs-bug to include proper information
>about your emacs version and environment, including additional
>information about the crash (as instructed).

In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2005-07-19 on spinky
X server distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40399902
configured using `configure '--prefix' '/usr/local/emacs-dev''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  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
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: nil

Major mode: VM Summary

Minor modes in effect:
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  next-error-follow-minor-mode:  Fol

Recent input:
[irrelevant -- run much later than the bug occurrence]

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