Re: emacs crash when run from console

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: robert <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 20:38:52 +0000
> 
> If I run emacs from the virtual console, I get a crash with the following
> backtrace (emacs built from cvs today)
> 
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x406043d1 in kill () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
> #1  0x080def86 in abort () at emacs.c:412
> #2  0x08183329 in tparam1 () at tparam.c:304
> #3  0x08182ef7 in tparam (string=0x84c7e4b "\e[3%p1%dm", outstring=0x0,
>  len=0, arg0=0, arg1=0, arg2=0, arg3=0) at tparam.c:107

Such crashes mean that your terminal capabilities entry uses terminfo
features (I think it's %p1 that causes the crash), but the Emacs
configure script somehow decides you don't have terminfo installed.

One frequent cause for such problems is when you have an old version
of ncurses installed on a GNU/Linux system.

For more details, see the entry in etc/PROBLEMS named "Emacs aborts
inside the function `tparam1'".