Subject: bug#899: 23.0.60; Opening a foo.tar.gz file crashes

From: Yary Hluchan <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:11:12 -0700

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Create a couple small text files- in my case sample1.txt containing:
Here is a sample. Hello!
and sample2.txt containing:
foo bar bat baz

put them in an archive with:
tar -czf sample.tar.gz sample?.txt

Then open a fresh instance of emacs, C-x C-f sample.tar.gz and it crashes.

I don't have gdb installed, but I can give you a link to sample.tar.gz
http://www.driveway.com/r4h5t5i7r1
My other tar.gz archives also crash emacs.

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'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
c:/Program Files/Emacs/Unpatched/emacs/etc/DEBUG for instructions.

In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2008-09-03 on LENNART-69DE564
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/g/include -fno-crossjumping'

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: ENU
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  recentf-mode: t
  partial-completion-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<escape> x r e p o <tab> r <tab> <return>

Recent messages:

An error has occurred while loading `c:/Documents and Settings/Stephen Edwards/Application Data/.emacs':

File error: Cannot open load file, menuacc

To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the
cause of the error in your initialization file.  Start Emacs with
the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace.

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