[3633] in testers
Re: emacs crashes and irregularities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG)
Thu Jun 18 16:43:23 1998
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:43:08 -0400
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG)
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Cc: ghudson@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:13:03 -0400
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Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:13:03 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> 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.
Like I said, nobody else's emacs seems to have the problem. I've
fixed the permissions.
> 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.
Normally when I start emacs, my window manager prompts me to lay out
the initial window. This will be a separate minubuffer window; so I
make it very wide and 6--10 lines long. Then emacs finishes starting,
and I create a regular frame by typing `C-x 5 2' in the minibuffer
frame, and I position that window as it defaults. This works fine.
But if I make the separate minibuffer the default size, then when I
type `C-x 5 2' emacs crashes.
The redisplay problems happen always, in every mode, no matter how I
start up emacs.
Thomas
