Steps to reproduce: I expect you'll need the 4.9MB file I was using. I uploaded it here for debugging purposes: http://streetgreek.com/files/bhs.txt I tried the following with non-bidi-Hebrew containing file and couldn't reproduce the bug. using an emacs bzr pull from today: ------------- $ emacs -Q /path/to/file/bhs.txt ------------- at this point I already get this error in the Gnome Terminal window from which I called Emacs (this comes even if I only run 'emacs -Q')ema: ** (emacs:22720): CRITICAL **: murrine_style_draw_box: assertion `height >= -1' failed [now I move around file using PgUp/PgDn, M-S->/< and point moving commands Sample dribble log attached to this message] Emacs crashes with either: Fatal error (11)Segmentation fault or: Fatal error (6)Aborted The actual moment of the crash comes with various commands. Once it was C-x 3, once it was M-<, once it was a PgUp. It was always after dozens of movement commands. Never right away. (Hence the length of the attached dribble log) The file is a 4.9MB text file in UTF-8 with both Hebrew and English text. Note that the final lines of the file set the buffer local variable 'bidi-display-reordering' to 't', since I was testing bidi display. This is the output of 'locale' on my system: LANG=en_GB.utf8 LC_CTYPE="en_GB.utf8" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.utf8" LC_TIME="en_GB.utf8" LC_COLLATE="en_GB.utf8" LC_MONETARY="en_GB.utf8" LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.utf8" LC_PAPER="en_GB.utf8" LC_NAME="en_GB.utf8" LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.utf8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.utf8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.utf8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.utf8" LC_ALL= The system is Ubuntu 10.4 running Gnome. I'll give more info if required. Scot In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.0) of 2010-05-18 on mayim Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10706000 Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_GB.utf8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Lisp Interaction 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 font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: M-x b u g r e p o r t SPC e m Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr message sendmail regexp-opt rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mailabbrev mail-utils gmm-utils mailheader emacsbug tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mldrag 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 loaddefs button minibuffer faces cus-face files text-properties overlay md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind dynamic-setting font-render-setting gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)