Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:07:10 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Tony Tung <tonytung@merly.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: emacs on freebsd 5.3 Message-ID: <20050217013710.GJ69640@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.61L.0502161729000.35118@neutrino.merly.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.61L.0502161709400.35118@neutrino.merly.org> <20050217012601.GI69640@wantadilla.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.61L.0502161729000.35118@neutrino.merly.org>
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--K3Y3NTg/qyuIFs24 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 16 February 2005 at 17:32:07 -0800, Tony Tung wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 16 February 2005 at 17:20:24 -0800, Tony Tung wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have an unusual problem I was hoping someone could help me with. I have >>> a FreeBSD 5.3 server that's been up for longer than a month. In that >>> period, everything seemed fine. However, all of a sudden, I'm no longer >>> able to spawn a shell in emacs. In fact, I cannot start any process >>> (shell, gdb, grep, compile) inside emacs. It is happening to all the >>> users, which makes me wonder if there's some OS-related issue in play >>> here. >>> >>> I've tried restarting emacs, bypassing the emacs startup file, >>> reinstalling emacs, and just about everything I could think of short of >>> restarting the server (don't want to do that until I'm physically >>> present). >> >> It would be worth attaching a ktrace to the Emacs to see what it's >> doing. Something like this: >> >> ... >> >> You should then look for a call to fork or execve and see what errors >> are returned. > > Strangely enough, that seems to have fixed the problem. Other users are > seeing a return to "normal" behavior as well. That shouldn't have made any difference. It was just to help you find the problem. Looks like it has escaped. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --K3Y3NTg/qyuIFs24 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCE/VGIubykFB6QiMRAmyLAKCKPwWczXioJr26QsNAxQiPua3R2ACfdMTb lYtBuWJQbhUgfzOcjpNVzWU= =Xbu5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --K3Y3NTg/qyuIFs24--
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