Re: Crash when starting an external process

[Nick Roberts]

 > Did that, however, emacs is exiting *normally*.   So there is nothing in
 > the BackTrace.

My understanding is that a crash is an abnormal exit, so I presume that in
your case Emacs is not crashing.  Does it happen if you start Emacs 22.1
with "emacs -Q" or "emacs -q"?  If no, then you need to look at site local
files like your .emacs.  If yes, then after starting Emacs under GDB, set a
breakpoint at Fkill_emacs:

(gdb) b Fkill_emacs
(gdb) run

After you start an external process doe this catch Emacs before it exits?
If so, please post this backtrace (`bt full' and `xbacktrace').

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