Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:56:01 +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: <20050217012601.GI69640@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.61L.0502161709400.35118@neutrino.merly.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.61L.0502161709400.35118@neutrino.merly.org>
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--ZccQPJAL46kky/Sq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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: $ ps aux | grep emacs root 12978 0.0 1.3 12880 9832 p5 R 8Oct04 222:09.31 emacs $ ktrace -i -p 12978 (in Emacs, do your thing) $ ktrace -C -p 12978 $ kdump | less You should then look for a call to fork or execve and see what errors are returned. 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. --ZccQPJAL46kky/Sq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCE/KpIubykFB6QiMRAtdYAJ4lp3cq8JPpj58QSOcMzYQKrZ1d9wCeK3dq 3LsYqHpw9lAs1BMxGoh6J8o= =Fhvr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZccQPJAL46kky/Sq--
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