disappearing program

[Alex Schroeder]

Today I had the weirdest bug.  I was going through a collection of
JPEG images (each a little bit below half a megabyte), opening an
image (and viewing it with auto-image-file-mode), killing the buffer,
sometimes reopening images I had already looked at, etc.  Suddenly
Emacs dies.  I have a GDB attached and wanted to take a look: 

...
DISPLAY = :0.0
TERM = rxvt
Breakpoint 1 at 0x80d413a: file emacs.c, line 414.
Breakpoint 2 at 0x80b8da2: file xterm.c, line 12519.
(gdb) c
Continuing.

Program terminated with signal SIGKILL, Killed.
The program no longer exists.
(gdb) bt
No stack.


Weird.



In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2003-03-16 on confusibombus
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.ISO-8859-1
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t