[14536] in Athena Bugs
xemacs with new SGI's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Travis C Furrer)
Sun Aug 11 14:17:08 1996
To: bug@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 14:17:04 EDT
From: Travis C Furrer <furrer@MIT.EDU>
Xemacs has problems on the new SGI's with Athena 8.0E. The first time I tried
it the machine crashed with the message "PANIC: KERNEL FAULT" and rebooted.
Successive tries on other workstations core dumped and returned the message
below. I assume this is a repeatable problem that can be diagnosed and fixed.
Thank You!
-Travis Furrer
P.S. Also, the audio drivers don't work (trying to play audio CD's with cdman)
on the new SGI's since the update to 8.0E (they worked fine with 8.0C). It's
too bad becuase they have really good quality sound! =(
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athena% xemacs &
[1] 22730
athena% Fatal error: assertion failed, file /afs/athena/contrib/xemacs/src/xema
cs-19.14/src/specifier.c, line 2424, abort()
Fatal error (6).
Your files have been auto-saved.
Use `M-x recover-session' to recover them.
Please report this bug to the address `crashes@xemacs.org'.
If at all possible, *please* try to obtain a C stack backtrace;
it will help us immensely in determining what went wrong.
To do this, locate the core file that was produced as a result
of this crash (it's usually called `core' and is located in the
directory in which you started XEmacs, or maybe in your home
directory), and type
gdb /mit/xemacs/arch/sgi_53/bin/xemacs core
then type `where' when the debugger prompt comes up.
(If you don't have GDB on your system, you might have DBX,
or XDB, or SDB. A similar procedure should work for all of
these. Ask your system administrator if you need more help.)
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