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sacamano_m82

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Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 167

Emacs Segmentation fault

This is my first stint with Arch Linux.
I installed Arch Linux x86_64 yesterday and everything seems to be okay.
Except for emacs - it crashes.

The exact error message seen when I execute emacs is :
*** glibc detected *** emacs: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0000000000bdbe80 ***
Trying emacs -nw resulted in a segmentation fault.

O/P of pacman -Qi emacs :

Name           : emacs
Version        : 22.1-3
URL            : http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html
License        : GPL
Groups         : None
Provides       : None
Depends On     : ncurses  libpng  libtiff  libungif  libxpm  gtk2
Removes        : None
Required By    : None
Conflicts With : None
Installed Size : 68571.32 K
Packager       : Eric Belanger (Snowman) <eric@archlinux.org>
Architecture   : x86_64
Build Date     : Thu Jun  7 23:51:57 2007 UTC
Build Type     : Unknown
Install Date   : Sun Jun 17 07:38:06 2007 UTC
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Description    : The Emacs Editor

Any pointers ?
Thanks in advance.

burk

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From: Norway

Registered: 2007-06-17

Posts: 46

Re: Emacs Segmentation fault

I do not know anything about this but I found someone who had experienced the same problem and they fixed it with

export MALLOC_CHECK_=1

Last edited by burk (2007-06-17 11:47:59)

sacamano_m82

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Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 167

Re: Emacs Segmentation fault

I tried it, but it doesn't work. Still get the same error.

sacamano_m82

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Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 167

Re: Emacs Segmentation fault

After doing a full system upgrade, the problem went away.