From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jun 7 21:19: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from kestrel.alerce.com (kestrel.alerce.com [209.182.207.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FD8E37B403; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 21:18:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hartzell@alerce.com) Received: from kestrel.alerce.com (w092.z064001164.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.164.92]) by kestrel.alerce.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f584L3200543; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 21:21:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com) Message-ID: <3B2051F6.942B491F@kestrel.alerce.com> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 21:17:58 -0700 From: George Hartzell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gj@FreeBSD.org Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD Port: xemacs-21.1.14, FreeBSD4.3Release and "Memory exhausted" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I just installed 4.3 Release and built the Xemacs21 port. Starting xemacs died with a message of "Memory exhausted" in the minibuffer and xemacs partially up and running (^X^C exited, very little else worked). It worked fine for root (though it used more memory (according to tcsh's builtin reporting) than it did running as a normal user. I looked at all kinds of stuff (limit, limit -h, etc...), finally tracked it down using ktrace and noticed that an open had failed on /dev/zero. Chmod 666 /dev/zero made it work. I noticed that a number of devices have permissions that break stuff for normal users (the default permissions on /dev/urandom and /dev/tty keep ssh from working properly). g. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message