bug#16685: Emacs crash when interacting with newsticker

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

E Sabof <esabof@gmail.com> writes:

> I get this each time I interact with newsticker long enough. Given the
> amount of customzations I've put on this mode, I don't guarantee that
> it's easily reproducible. Find the gdb backtrace below.
>
> Evgeni
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x000000000053ceba in cleanup_vector (vector=0x52cf498) at alloc.c:2909
> 2909        ((struct font *) vector)->driver->close ((struct font *) vector);
> (gdb) backtrace
> #0  0x000000000053ceba in cleanup_vector (vector=0x52cf498) at alloc.c:2909
> #1  cleanup_vector (vector=0x52cf498) at alloc.c:2901
> #2  0x0000000000541e5d in sweep_vectors () at alloc.c:2947
> #3  gc_sweep () at alloc.c:6649
> #4  Fgarbage_collect () at alloc.c:5572

This was five years ago, and unfortunately this wasn't handled at the
time.  But it's unlikely that we'll be making more progress here at this
point, so I'm closing this bug report.  Please reopen if you're still
seeing these crashes in modern versions of Emacs.

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