any ideas anyone?
Gunnar
mcrogan(a)purdue.edu writes:
> When using XEmacs-21.2.46 (although I have had this occur on other
> versions, including non-beta), and sometimes after sending a message in
> VM (for example; in fact, the problem may occur at other times), I get
> that the XEmacs session I am running under a tty becomes entirely
> unusable. It consists of several characters on the screen. Right now
> it is:
>
> R\
> **
>
> Where the *'s signify blank characters, but in reverse video. I can
> still enter keystrokes in this tty, but the display never gets better.
> Now, since I am running `gnuclient' on other tty's, the session in other
> windows stays perfectly usable. Note that the tty that begins showing
> the small number of characters is not a `gnuclient' window, but is the
> original XEmacs window.
>
> The problem occurs seemingly at random, and only some of the time, but I
> have noticed in particular that it is likely to occur when I send a
> message in VM. After it would have returned to the summary page, it
> gives this unreadable screen.
>
> The problem is that I have no idea on how to debug this problem. If I
> knew what to do, it might be easy to debug, but I do not know where to
> start or how to provide more information. The very XEmacs (via
> `gnuclient') session that I am running now has this strange tty
> behaviour.
>
> Any ideas on what to do next would be greatly helpful.
>
> $ cat Installation
> uname -a: Linux localhost 2.4.0 #6 Sat Jan 27 09:39:26 EST 2001 i686 unknown
>
> ./configure '--prefix=/usr/local/beta' '--exec-prefix=/usr/local/beta' '--with-scrollbars=athena' '--with-athena=3d' '--with-dialogs=athena' '--with-widgets=athena' '--external-widget' '--with-png' '--without-gpm' '--with-jpeg' '--with-xpm' '--with-tiff' '--with-xface' '--with-sound=native,esd' '--with-database=berkdb' '--mail-locking=flock' '--with-pop' '--with-modules' '--with-site-lisp=yes' '--with-site-modules=yes' '--pdump' '--with-mule' '--debug' '--error-checking=all' '--memory-usage-stats' '--with-purify' '--rel-alloc' '--with-debug-malloc' '--with-clash-detection' '--extra-verbose' '--with-netinstall'
>
>
> XEmacs 21.2-b46 "Urania" configured for `i686-pc-linux'.
>
>
> Compilation / Installation:
> Source code location: /usr/local/src/XEmacs/xemacs-21.2.46
> Installation prefix: /usr/local/beta
> Operating system description file: `s/linux.h'
> Machine description file: `m/intel386.h'
> Compiler: gcc -O3 -g3 -mpentiumpro
> Relocating allocator for buffers: yes
> GNU version of malloc: no
> - User chose not to use GNU allocators.
>
> Window System:
> Compiling in support for the X window system:
> - X Windows headers location: /usr/X11R6/include
> - X Windows libraries location: /usr/X11R6/lib
> - Handling WM_COMMAND properly.
> Compiling in support for the Athena widget set:
> - Athena headers location: X11/Xaw3d
> - Athena library to link: Xaw3d
> Using Lucid menubars.
> Using Athena scrollbars.
> Using Athena dialog boxes.
> Using Athena native widgets.
>
> TTY:
> Compiling in support for ncurses.
>
> Images:
> Compiling in support for GIF images (builtin).
> Compiling in support for XPM images.
> Compiling in support for PNG images.
> Compiling in support for JPEG images.
> Compiling in support for TIFF images.
> Compiling in support for X-Face message headers.
>
> Sound:
> Compiling in support for sound (native).
> Compiling in support for NAS (network audio system).
> Compiling in support for ESD (Enlightened Sound Daemon).
>
> Databases:
> Compiling in support for Berkeley database.
> Compiling in support for LDAP.
> Compiling in support for PostgreSQL.
> - Using PostgreSQL header file: postgresql/libpq-fe.h
>
> Internationalization:
> Compiling in support for Mule (multi-lingual Emacs).
> Compiling in support for XIM (X11R5+ I18N input method).
> - Using raw Xlib to provide XIM support.
> Compiling in support for the WNN input method on Mule.
> - Using WNN version 6.
>
> Mail:
> Compiling in support for POP mail retrieval.
> Compiling in support for "flock" mail spool file locking method.
>
> Other Features:
> Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules.
> Using the new portable dumper.
> Compiling in support for extra debugging code.
> WARNING: ---------------------------------------------------------
> WARNING: Compiling in support for runtime error checking.
> WARNING: XEmacs will run noticeably more slowly as a result.
> WARNING: Error checking is on by default for XEmacs beta releases.
> WARNING: ---------------------------------------------------------
>
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