jsmng@sysmgr.cs.uh.edu (07/29/89)
We have come across a strange problem with our GNU Emacs and hope someone can give us some pointers to it. In one of our client workstations, every time someone tries to start up Emacs, it responds with an error message "Emulator Trap (core dumped)". This same copy of Emacs exec file which resides on the server does not have this problem on the server and the other eleven clients under this server. The architecture and setup of all 12 clients (including the bad one) is identical ( all are sun 3/50 ). There should be enough swap space. Any insight to this problem is appreciated. Please send e-mail to jsmng@cs.uh.edu and I will summarize the contribution.
jsmng@csun5.cs.uh.edu (08/03/89)
Not long ago I have posted a problem about emulation trap in emacs. It turns out we are missing a mc68881 chip. Thanks for the contribution from Ted Lemon. The following is his mail: ******************************************************************* From mellon@zayante Fri Jul 28 21:51:53 1989 Return-Path: <mellon@zayante@cs.uh.edu> Received: from decwrl.dec.com by sysmgr.cs.uh.edu (4.0/SMI-3.2) id AA01127; Fri, 28 Jul 89 21:51:49 CDT Received: from zayante.pa.dec.com by decwrl.dec.com (5.54.5/4.7.34) id AA02135; Fri, 28 Jul 89 19:52:04 PDT Received: from zayante.pa.dec.com by decwrl.dec.com (5.54.5/4.7.34) for jsmng@sysmgr.cs.uh.edu; id AA02135; Fri, 28 Jul 89 19:52:04 PDT Received: by zayante.pa.dec.com (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA00964; Fri, 28 Jul 89 19:52:00 PDT Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 19:52:00 PDT From: mellon@zayante.pa.dec.com (Ted Lemon) Message-Id: <8907290252.AA00964@zayante.pa.dec.com> To: jsmng@sysmgr.cs.uh.edu () In-Reply-To: jsmng@sysmgr.cs.uh.edu's message of 28 Jul 89 21:08:57 GMT Subject: emulator trap in Emacs Status: R Perhaps that particular machine doesn't have a 68881, and all the others do. I think there's a command called mc68881, or something like that, that can tell if one is present. If this turns out to be the case, recompile emacs with -fsoft (or -msoft-float, in gcc). _MelloN_ ******************************************************************************