Crashes when pressing ^G in minibuffer

[Alf-Ivar Holm]

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In GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.7, X toolkit)
 of 2001-10-23 on tyrfing.ifi.uio.no
configured using `configure  --prefix=/local/gnu'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LC_CTYPE: no
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: C
  value of $LC_MONETARY: en_US
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_US
  value of $LC_TIME: en_US
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

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

I've not managed to reproduce this error in an empty emacs (-q), but
I've got this crash twice while running gnus (and lots of other setup
stuff loaded from a lot of different files) and both times while I was
editing the prompt to "M-x man".  The initial message and backtrace
from gdb (Note: emacs21 was started with "run -nw" in gdb):

Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
0xfef9629c in _poll () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
(gdb) backtrace
#0  0xfef9629c in _poll () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
#1  0xfef4e86c in select () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
#2  0x191afc in wait_reading_process_input ()
#3  0x4cb54 in sit_for ()
#4  0x4cc68 in Fsit_for ()
#5  0x111d60 in temp_echo_area_glyphs ()
#6  0x110a14 in do_completion ()
#7  0x110eb8 in complete_and_exit_1 ()
#8  0x153934 in internal_condition_case ()
#9  0x110f68 in Fminibuffer_complete_and_exit ()
#10 0x155fb4 in Ffuncall ()
#11 0x151830 in Fcall_interactively ()
#12 0xf2090 in Fcommand_execute ()
#13 0xe597c in command_loop_1 ()
#14 0x153934 in internal_condition_case ()
#15 0xe44a8 in command_loop_2 ()
#16 0x15341c in internal_catch ()
#17 0xe4464 in command_loop ()
#18 0xe3e64 in recursive_edit_1 ()
#19 0x10ea34 in read_minibuf ()
#20 0x110774 in Fcompleting_read ()
#21 0xf2308 in Fexecute_extended_command ()
#22 0x155fd0 in Ffuncall ()
#23 0x151830 in Fcall_interactively ()
#24 0xf2090 in Fcommand_execute ()
#25 0xe597c in command_loop_1 ()
#26 0x153934 in internal_condition_case ()
#27 0xe44a8 in command_loop_2 ()
#28 0x15341c in internal_catch ()
#29 0xe4420 in command_loop ()
#30 0xe3e64 in recursive_edit_1 ()
#31 0xe3ff0 in Frecursive_edit ()
#32 0xe2b14 in main ()

I can do c(ontinue) in gdb and keep on going, but I will return to the
same spot in gdb as soon as I press ^G, while triple ESC does work as
expected.  I've managed to reproduce this within a short interval (to
get the gdb backtrace), so I guess I will manage to do it again, so
please tell me what to do if the above information is too sparse.

   Affi


Recent input:
a n RET j i k e s RET C-s s t d q RET q SPC n n ESC
x m a n RET j i k e s RET q ESC x j i k e s RET RET
m a n RET RET m a DEL DEL j i k e s RET DEL DEL DEL
DEL DEL m a n RET DEL DEL DEL TAB TAB C-c C-c ESC ESC
ESC C-l ESC x ESC ESC ESC ESC x r e p o r t - e m a
c s - b u g RET

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