[18400] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.4.14: emacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Thu Oct 12 14:44:15 2000
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
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From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Date: 12 Oct 2000 14:44:11 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Christopher D. Beland"'s message of "Wed, 11 Oct 2000 18:16:21 -0400"
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<daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> (Christopher D. Beland) writes:
> > What's wrong:
>
> Emacs hangs when invoked in this way. It does not hang if I run the
I tried this myself on alice-whacker, one of sipb's linux-athena
machines. What I found is that emacs is somehow becoming STOP'ed.
Even more fun, /usr/bin/emacs works just fine in this situation.
I have a shell script which runs
exec /usr/athena/bin/emacs -nw "$@"
Checking processes after it starts (using "ps auxww | grep")
shows a STOP'ed emacs process:
jmorzins 21066 0.1 0.5 1780 684 pts/9 S 14:32 0:00 comp
jmorzins 21067 0.7 1.7 6288 2184 pts/9 T 14:32 0:00 /usr/athena/bin/emacs -nw /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/j/m/jmorzins/Mail/drafts/9
For comparison, if I Control-Z in the tty running the comp, the
comp process stops, and I can then "kill %1" it:
jmorzins 21066 0.0 0.5 1780 684 pts/9 T 14:32 0:00 comp
jmorzins 21067 0.2 1.7 6288 2184 pts/9 T 14:32 0:00 /usr/athena/bin/emacs -nw /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/j/m/jmorzins/Mail/drafts/9
If I use /usr/bin/emacs instead of athena emacs, the comp shell
script works fine.
More evidence that there's something odd about athena-linux's
emacs, I guess.
-Jacob
