On 06/05/2014 01:49 AM, Ken Raeburn wrote:

> A simpler reproduction just worked for me:
>
> emacs -Q -nw
>
> in the scratch buffer, evaluate:
>
> (let ((f (make-frame-on-display ":0" '((font . "7x14")))))
>    (delete-frame f))
>
> That's killed my Emacs processes pretty reliably.
>
> Simpler still:
>
> $ emacs -Q -nw --eval '(let ((f (make-frame-on-display ":0" '"'"'((font . "7x14"))))) (delete-frame f))'
>
> The terminal window gets a frame, the X display gets a frame, the X
> frame goes away, and the terminal-mode Emacs crashes.

Please try this against emacs-24 branch or 24.3.91 (this is a backported
hybrid of trunk commits 116927 and 117126). If that works for you, this
should be incorporated into emacs-24 and included into the next pretest.

Dmitry