The following crashes emacs when started from a xterm: emacs -Q -nw (set-keyboard-coding-system 'raw-text) => Fatal error 6: Aborted Backtrace: emacs[0x50608b] emacs[0x4ec37e] emacs[0x504d7e] emacs[0x504f83] emacs[0x505029] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0(+0x10340)[0x7fa694519340] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x39)[0x7fa694179bb9] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(abort+0x148)[0x7fa69417cfc8] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x73e14)[0x7fa6941b6e14] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x7eb77)[0x7fa6941c1b77] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(realloc+0x2a2)[0x7fa6941c6c12] emacs[0x546692] emacs[0x48b5d1] emacs[0x48b9fa] emacs[0x493dcb] emacs[0x49852c] emacs[0x4f7a1f] emacs[0x4f8cef] emacs[0x4fa910] emacs[0x55fdde] emacs[0x4ec9ae] emacs[0x55fceb] emacs[0x4ec966] emacs[0x4f100c] emacs[0x4f134d] emacs[0x417ff8] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5)[0x7fa694164ec5] emacs[0x418abc] Abgebrochen (Speicherabzug geschrieben) I attached a gdb log of the error.