Emacs crash in X

[Satyaki Das]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2002-08-28 on astest
configured using `configure  --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu 
--target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr 
--exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc 
--datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib 
--libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com 
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gcc --with-pop 
--with-sound'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US
  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 started emacs in gdb as follows:
  $ gdb /usr/bin/emacs
  (gdb) run  -q --no-site-file

Then I created a second frame with:  C-x 5 2

I move the new frame to a different workspace (it is important
to move it to a different workspace as moving it to a
different viewport in window managers that support both
doesn't cause the crash). At this point I have two frames both
displaying the *scratch* buffer.

In the new frame I load ~/pp.el with: C-x C-f ~/pp.el RET
Contents of ~/pp.el:

-- start of pp.el --
(progn
  (setq focus-follows-mouse nil)
  (select-frame-set-input-focus
   (window-frame (get-buffer-window "*scratch*" t))))
-- end of pp.el --

Now I move to the end of pp.el and evaluate the lisp
expression with: M-> C-x C-e

This causes Emacs to die. In gdb from where emacs was started
I see the following output:

X protocol error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) on protocol request 42
Program exited with code 0106.

I use the metacity window manager. I have been able to
reproduce the exact same crash with CVS version of emacs that
I checked out on 2002-12-25. That version reports its version
as 21.3.50.3.

I came across this problem while using ILISP which is an
interface to various implementations of Common Lisp. I
minimized the code that needed to be run to crash emacs.

Hope this helps,
Satyaki


Recent input:
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <up> <up> <up> <up> C-x k <return> M-x <up> 
<up> <return>

Recent messages:
call-interactively: End of buffer [2 times]
Wrote /home/satyaki/pp.el
Undo!
call-interactively: Quit
Making completion list... [2 times]
byte-code: Quit
Loading info...done
Composing main Info directory...
Mark set
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