On Aug 25, 2011, at 3:15 PM, Vegard Øye wrote:

   (eval-after-load 'comint
     '(define-key comint-mode-map "a" comint-mode-map))

This does cause the crash, but isolating it is proving to be very difficult :( Must be some interaction with another extension. If I start with a clean-slate emacs.d, then it doesn't cause a crash. However, if I place at top of my .emacs.d, it crashes.

Tim