Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 21:17:58 -0700 From: George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> To: gj@FreeBSD.org Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD Port: xemacs-21.1.14, FreeBSD4.3Release and "Memory exhausted" Message-ID: <3B2051F6.942B491F@kestrel.alerce.com>
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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
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