New subject: crash on 21.5-b16 i386-pc-solaris2.9

Wednesday, 31 December 2003

Hi Steve,
thanks for the quick response. Responses/comments etc inline below:

Steve Youngs wrote:
...
 |--==> "JCM" == James C McPherson
<james.mcpherson(a)optusnet.com.au&gt; writes:
   JCM> Operation: start xemacs. Select
   Tools-> Packages->Set Download Site->Official Releases->(Australian sites)
   JCM> 	... Update Package Index
   JCM> 	... /ftp.xemacs.org:pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.gpg (click OK)
   JCM> Reproducible: always. dies with US locations and Australian.
   JCM> 	... dies as ordinary user and root as well.
 I can't reproduce it here on Linux.
   JCM> espresso:jmcp $ xemacs -geometry +0+0 &
 Do you get the same thing if you invoke XEmacs like...
         xemacs -vanilla -geometry +0+0 &
 If using `-vanilla' fixes the problem, then something in _your_ setup is
 messing it up. 
I tried it again on the as-distributed 21.5.b16 with -vanilla and the
crash still occurred.

...
   JCM> ./configure  '--prefix=/d00/xemacs'
'--debug=no' '--pdump=no'
   JCM> '--use-kkcc=yes' '--with-gpm=no' '--with-workshop'
'--with-gcc=no'
   JCM> '--with-ldap=no'
 Compiling with debugging symbols would give the bug-catching boys and
 girls much more of a fighting chance.  Drop that `=no' off of the end
 of `--debug'. :-) 
well the configure script turned on debugging symbols by default - or
at least, it said it did due to 21.5.b16 being a beta...

...
   JCM> XEmacs 21.5-b16 "celeriac"  configured for
`i386-pc-solaris2.9'.
 Can you update from CVS? [1] (If not, let me know and I'll get a patch
 to you that will bring your XEmacs up to date.)  It's been a fairly
 long time since -b16 was released and there's been quite a number of
 changes made since then.
   JCM>    Using Motif dialog boxes.
   JCM>    Using Motif native widgets.
 This always frightens me.  Is it just a coincidence that "Motif"
 contains two thirds of "Not"? :-) 
Yeah, and that it's a bastard child of HP, IBM, Sun and few other
now non-existent companies trying to emulate Windows3.11 ;| Gtk is
a whole heap nicer but for some reason which I couldn't be bothered
getting figured out yesterday configure wasn't finding my gtk libs.

Anyway, pulled current from cvs, built it -- still got the failure
with Snarf-documentation -- but the crash described earlier did not
occur. Which is definitely nice ;)

If you're tracking this issue in a db somewhere then I think you
can close it off with all due speed.

thanks again,
James C. McPherson

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Re: crash on 21.5-b16 i386-pc-solaris2.9