Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 07:55:59 +1100 (EST) From: Douglas Thomas Crosher <dtc@scrooge.ee.swin.oz.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Trouble with: 'process killed due to text file modification' Message-ID: <199602062056.HAA09994@scrooge.ee.swin.oz.au>
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I am running a freebsd stable kernel from a sup of a few days ago and find that emacs will regularly die with the following message: Process killed due to text file modification. I find this puzzling as, when running emacs, I don't have write permission (touch will fail) and I don't have write permission to the directory in which emacs is installed. But if I check the emacs executable its modification time will have been update to around the time the process was killed. I've verified that the emacs file does not actually change, just its access time. Emacs is nfs mounted, and the server was also a freebsd-stable system, which had nothing running on it. I think I have seen this happen even for an emacs session not being used. I was running emacs in one terminal but working in another when it died. I'm not sure if its related, but I have also seen the following kernel message on the console, after which the console locked up although the machine was still active: vnode_pager_output: I/O error 5 vnode_pager_output: residual I/O 4096 at 1691648 The server is an i486DX with 8M of ram, 3c509, and 2 IDE drives; the client is a P90 with P/I-P55T4 mother board, 16M ram, NE2000 compat. card, and 2 IDE dirves. Regards Douglas Crosher
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