daver@csvax.caltech.edu (01/18/86)
From: daver@csvax.caltech.edu (David Robinson) There may be a bug in vadvise(2) on a SUN but emacs DOESN'T ever call vadvise(), it isn't even linked in. The bug may be in a related call but I haven't found it yet. Thank you for the information though it may explain some bugs in other programs I have. -David Robinson daver@cit-vax.arpa
daver@csvax.caltech.edu (01/18/86)
From: daver@csvax.caltech.edu (David Robinson) Here is a bug in emacs version 17.36 on SUN2's: When loading up xemacs with temacs make dies with the following error: Termination code 132 A system error is sent to the console: sendsig: bad user stack pid=6181, sig=11 usp is f7ffe0, action is 4a29c, upc is 287ba The catch to this bug is that it is MACHINE dependant and NOT OS dependant!! We have a network of SUN's sharing a common /usr and userfiles. It is made up of SUN 2/120 150 170 and 160's. Each has 2-4 megabytes of memory and up to 16Mbyte of swap space. temacs dies on the following machines: 120 2M physical 8M swap sky board (Multibus) 150 4M physical 16M swap sky board (Multibus) 170 4M physical 16M swap no sky board (Multibus) temacs successfully loads xemacs on: 160 4M physical 8M swap no sky (VME bus) They all run the same SUN 2.0 UNIX with a shared /usr,/bin,/lib directories. The same executeable code is run on each machine (because of NFS) and it fails or completes depending on the HARDWARE! The completed GNU emacs runs on ALL machines. All machines successfully ran 17.30 and previous versions back to 15.XX. The config.h is standard except for m-sun2.h instead of m-vax.h. Sources files were directly FTP'd from mit-prep.arpa across the ARPANET (twice!) On a seperate 170 (different SUN distribution tape) it also dies. NO documentation is found on the "sendsig" message. I am completely stumped! Any help on what the errors mean or fixes would be greatly apreciated. -David Robinson daver@cit-vax.arpa ihnp4!cithep!cit-vax!daver
thomas@kuling.UUCP (Thomas H{meenaho) (01/21/86)
In article <979@mit-eddie.UUCP> daver@csvax.caltech.edu writes: >From: daver@csvax.caltech.edu (David Robinson) >Here is a bug in emacs version 17.36 on SUN2's: >temacs dies on the following machines: >120 2M physical 8M swap sky board (Multibus) >150 4M physical 16M swap sky board (Multibus) >170 4M physical 16M swap no sky board (Multibus) > >temacs successfully loads xemacs on: >160 4M physical 8M swap no sky (VME bus) > Yet another example of the superiority of the VME bus over Multibus! :-) -- Thomas Hameenaho, Dept. of Computer Science, Uppsala University, Sweden Phone: +46 18 138650 UUCP: thomas@kuling.UUCP (...!{seismo,mcvax}!enea!kuling!thomas)