Hi Johan,
Johan Alwall <alwall(a)tsl.uu.se> wrote:
I am running the latest version of Xemacs installed by Fink on my Mac
OS X
10.4 system, and it crashes (almost) whenever I try to open a file. It crashes
when I try to open Makefiles, .C files and .f files, but .log files and .txt
seem to work (and it seems that it's the extension that is the problem - I
tried ls > tmp.txt and ls > tmp.C, and the .txt file opened but not the .C
file). One possible problem, viewing the "System info" below, could be that
xemacs believes that the system is darwin-7.5, when in fact it's 8.6; if I do
a uname -a it gives:
Darwin apple-laptop.local 8.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.6.0: Tue Mar 7
16:58:48 PST 2006; root:xnu-792.6.70.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
I don't understand why Xemacs would think I have darwin-7.5. I have tried to
produce a core file by setting ulimit -c unlimited before running xemacs, but
it doesn't seem to work, sorry.
The bit about darwin-7.5 is XEmacs reporting information about the
system where it was compiled. Are the differences between darwin 7.5
and darwin 8.6 big enough that your crash could be due to interface
differences?
Also, I am concerned about ...
Load-Path Lisp Shadows:
----------------------
(/sw/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/fortran
/sw/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/fortran-modes/fortran
/sw/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/fortran-misc
/sw/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/fortran-modes/fortran-misc
/sw/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/f90
/sw/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/fortran-modes/f90
/Users/alwall/.xemacs/custom /sw/lib/xemacs-21.4.15/lisp/custom
... this. What is this file named custom, do you really need it, and
can you rename it to something else? If you are blocking the loading of
the internal custom.el, then I can well believe that very strange things
would start happening.
--
Jerry James, Assistant Professor james(a)xemacs.org
Computer Science Department
http://www.cs.usu.edu/~jerry/
Utah State University