This bug report will be sent to the Bug-GNU-Emacs mailing list and the GNU bug tracker at debbugs.gnu.org.  Please check that the From: line contains a valid email address.  After a delay of up to one day, you should receive an acknowledgment at that address. Please write in English if possible, as the Emacs maintainers usually do not have translators for other languages. Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug, and the precise symptoms of the bug.  If you can, give a recipe starting from `emacs -Q': 1) loaded attached file 'nelson.art' with ctrl-x f2) emacs then proceeded to malloc all core, causing linux to grind to a halt. Reproducable as the first command entered after emacs -Q. If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger, please include the output from the following gdb commands:     `bt full' and `xbacktrace'. For information about debugging Emacs, please read the file /usr/share/emacs/24.3/etc/DEBUG. In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.7)  of 2014-03-07 on lamiak, modified by Debian Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11501000 System Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS Configured using:  `configure '--build' 'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--build' 'x86_64-linux-gnu'  '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib'  '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info'  '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes'  '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.3/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.3/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp'  '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' '--with-x=yes'  '--with-x-toolkit=gtk3' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars'  'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector  --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall'  'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro'  'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2'' Important settings:   value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8   value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix   default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect:   tooltip-mode: t   mouse-wheel-mode: t   tool-bar-mode: t   menu-bar-mode: t   file-name-shadow-mode: t   global-font-lock-mode: t   blink-cursor-mode: t   auto-composition-mode: t   auto-encryption-mode: t   auto-compression-mode: t   buffer-read-only: t   line-number-mode: t   transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: x r e p o r Recent messages: Loading 00debian-vars...done Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el (source)... Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el (source)... Error while loading 50dictionaries-common: Symbol's value as variable is void: debian-aspell-only-dictionary-alist For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Making completion list... Load-path shadows: /usr/share/emacs/24.3/site-lisp/debian-startup hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils help-mode easymenu time-date tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)