From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 17 01:37:14 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA01716A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 01:37:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6812C43D41 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 01:37:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 7C35C8565C; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:07:10 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:07:10 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Tony Tung Message-ID: <20050217013710.GJ69640@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20050217012601.GI69640@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="K3Y3NTg/qyuIFs24" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: emacs on freebsd 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 01:37:15 -0000 --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--