In GNU Emacs 25.0.95.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.20.6) of 2016-07-17 built on Gertrud Repository revision: 9356fe239281ca15e12a4e5e93d7d00c56df2626 Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11803000 System Description: openSUSE Tumbleweed (20160710) (x86_64) Configured using: 'configure -with-x --with-sound --with-xpm --with-jpeg --with-tiff --with-gif --with-png --with-rsvg --with-dbus --without-gpm --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-file-notification=inotify --x-includes=/usr/include --x-libraries=/usr/lib64 --with-xft --with-libotf --with-m17n-flt --with-pop --without-hesiod --with-kerberos --with-kerberos5 --with-xim --with-wide-int --enable-autodepend 'CFLAGS=-fomit-frame-pointer -fmessage-length=0 -grecord-gcc-switches -fstack-protector -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -g -D_GNU_SOURCE -std=gnu99 -pipe -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-unused-variable -Wno-unused-label -Wno-unprototyped-calls -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -DSYSTEM_PURESIZE_EXTRA=55000 -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=10000 ' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O2 -Wl,--hash-size=65521' '--enable-locallisppath=${datadir}/emacs/${version}/site-lisp:${datadir}/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp'' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 Important settings: value of $LC_MESSAGES: POSIX value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=local locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Text Minor modes in effect: show-paren-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-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 auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t size-indication-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t The file to reproduce this with contained sensitive information, but fortunately the replacement of all information with something inconspicous still produces the same crash (and makes it a lot smaller after compression):