[3631] in testers
Re: emacs crashes and irregularities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Jun 18 16:13:14 1998
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:13:03 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG), testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[3630] in testers"
> I guess I'll try running emacs with your .emacs file to see if I can
> narrow things down.
Well, your elisp files (in src/el) aren't world-readable, so I can't
really test this. I certainly don't see this behavior as systest,
though.
> On a Sun (both Sparc 4 and Ultra 1) running athena release 8.2, the
> emacs in the packs crashes under X in a reliable way on startup if I
> drag out initial windows in a certain way. (Other ways, it starts
> with no apparent problems.)
Can you be any more specific? I can probably fix this problem if I
can reproduce it, but not otherwise. Alternatively, emacs is
installed with symbols if you want to produce a core dump and get a
stack trace.
