[8262] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.3M: emacs M-x rmail + M-x gnus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (klund@Athena.mit.edu)
Mon Sep 23 22:00:29 1991
From: klund@Athena.mit.edu
To: bugs@Athena.mit.edu
Cc: klund@Athena.mit.edu, kldobbs@Athena.mit.edu
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 91 22:01:00 EDT
System name: barker-5-6
Type and version: VAXSTAR 7.3M
Display type: SM
What were you trying to do?
I startup emacs running rmail in a shell script called by
.startup.X When I finish reading mail I often read news
using gnus.
emacs -geometry 80x50+0+0 -e rmail &
* Here's my .emacs
(setq default-major-mode 'text-mode)
(setq text-mode-hook
'(lambda nil
(setq fill-column 72)
(auto-fill-mode 1)))
(autoload 'gnus "gnus" "Read network news." t)
(autoload 'gnus-post-news "gnuspost" "Post a new news." t)
(setq load-path (append load-path
(list "/afs/athena/contrib/sipb/lib/elisp")))
(setq gnus-nntp-server "news.mit.edu")
What's wrong:
However, ever since the software update, when I go from
rmail to gnus, the emacs window often terminates, sometimes
with the error "emacs : illegal instruction" sometimes not.
I can reproduce this by starting up emacs as above, letting
rmail load and complete, then starting up a new emacs with
"emacs -w 80x50+0+0 &" and then starting gnus in the first
window. Presto! wrong hat.
I can reproduce this reliably on a VSII, VS2000, and VS3100.
When I tried it on a DS3100, emacs hanged rather than terminating.
I don't go near RT's.
What should have happened:
It should have let me read news.
