[12291] in Athena Bugs
sun4 7.6R: xterm/emacs/ptys/w20-575-6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Tauriello)
Wed Jul 27 23:32:27 1994
To: bugs@MIT.EDU, hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 94 23:32:16 EDT
From: "Rich Tauriello" <rptaurie@MIT.EDU>
System name: w20-575-7
Type and version: SPARC/Classic 7.6R
Display type: cgthree
More details on that last bug I reported for xterm; I'm sending this
to hotline too since it seems to be the one machine (w20-575-6) and it
persisted after rebooting.
My startup.X created an xterm, then started up an emacs. While the
emacs was starting, I tried creating an xterm from the initial xterm,
and succeeded, but then the emacs died with the error "emacs: could
not grant slave pty". Sometime during the above, my startup.X created
another xterm. But then after emacs died, I couldn't start up any
more xterms (segmentation fault, exit 139 (dash says exited with
signal 11, btw)) or emacs's ("could not grant slave pty"). Actually,
I just confirmed that emacs only dies if it tries to do M-x server-start
Rich
