double free or corruption

[Stephen Berman]

I just updated from the CVS trunk, configured and built without error,
ran `emacs -Q', everything seemed fine, then did `C-x C-c' and the
shell where I started Emacs reported this:

*** glibc detected *** ./src/emacs: double free or corruption (top):
0x087c8c50 ***

and the Emacs instance was frozen and I had to type ^C in the shell to
kill it.  I tried a few more times and it was always the same, except
that the message now contained "(!prev)" instead of "(top)".  This
also happened when I simply invoked Emacs and did nothing, after a
couple of minutes it froze and the shell reported that message.
Unfortunately, I currently cannot use gdb due to a kernel error.


In GNU Emacs 22.1.50.4 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.6)
 of 2007-06-28 on escher
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70199902
configured using `configure  '--with-x-toolkit=gtk''

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.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
M-x r e p o r <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
("./emacs" "-Q")
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