Re: 23.0.60; Seg fault in xfaces.c at line 6703 (Emacs.app on GNUstep)

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Chris <cjh@insidernewswire.com> writes:

  > Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
  > and the precise symptoms of the bug:
  > 
  > 
  > Attempting to start Emacs.app results in SIGSEGV at line 6703 of
  > xfaces.c.
  > 
  > At xfaces.c:6703, macro FACE_FROM_ID attempts access to
  > f->face_cache->used.
  > 
  > Debugging with GDB shows that at the time of invocation, f->face_cache
  > = 0x0 (debugging output included below).
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > In GNU Emacs 23.0.60 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, *Step 9.0rc3)
  >  of 2008-02-01 on localhost.localdomain
  > configured using `configure '--with-ns' '--without-x'
  > 
--prefix=/home/cjh/GNUstep/Build/emacs-23.0.\0_NS-9.0rc3/nextstep/build/Emacs.app/Resources'
  > 
--exec-prefix=/home/cjh/GNUstep/Build/emacs-23.0.0\_NS-9.0rc3/nextstep/build/Emacs.app'
  > 
--libexecdir=/home/cjh/GNUstep/Build/emacs-23.0.0_NS-9.0rc3/n\extstep/build/Emacs.app/libexec'
  > --with-pop' '--enable-font-backend' '--without-freetype' 'CFLAGS=\-g 
  > -O0 -gstabs+''

Please note the Emacs.app is not included in emacs CVS, so we cannot
help debug this. Your best choice is probably to report this to the
Emacs.app maintainers.