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On 02 Jan 2001, Emerick Rogul wrote:
> 
> =>[1] _libc_kill(0x0, 0xb, 0x102027ac, 0x0, 0x22134, 0x69238), at
> 0xfef9a790
>   [2] fatal_error_signal(0xb, 0x0, 0xffbedbe0, 0xfefb8000, 0x0,
>   0x0),
> at 0x69238
>   [3] sigacthandler(0xb, 0x0, 0xffbedbe0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0), at
> 0xfef99834
>   ---- called from signal handler with signal 11 (SIGSEGV) ------
>   [4] deactivate_process(0x2a553c, 0x1fbc00, 0x1fd400, 0x10f800,
>   0x0,
> 0x0), at 0x10dd38
>   [5] send_process(0xffbedf90, 0x1, 0xffbee024, 0x6, 0x142364,
> 0x1fbc00), at 0x10fb1c
> 
> This doesn't really mean too much to me...  Should I follow this up
> here, or would this be considered a more general Emacs problem (if
> so, where should I report it)?

This might also be a hardware problem. Perhaps one of your memory
chips has gone south? If it happens a lot in different routines than
memory corruption is a pretty good guess.

Hans