foo@portia.Stanford.EDU (castor fu) (10/13/89)
We are using GNU emacs 18.55 on a DECstation 3100, Ultrix 3.1 rev. 14. and have had the problem of EMACS occasionally fail to start up. The error messages are generally "Segmentation fault" or "emacs: bad address". I would think that this means that somewhere in the startup code EMACS is a little cavalier about un-aligned memory accesses. This behavior can be repeated if the system is relatively quiet, and can usually be thwarted by starting up some other programs to get things to a different alignment (i assume). This problem seems to invariably go away when running DBX unfortunately. Anyone have any ideas about how this should be fixed? -Castor Fu castor@fizzle.stanford.edu
rich@sendai.sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us (K. Richard Magill) (10/13/89)
In article <5815@portia.Stanford.EDU> foo@portia.Stanford.EDU (castor fu) writes:
We are using GNU emacs 18.55 on a DECstation 3100, Ultrix 3.1 rev.
14. and have had the problem of EMACS occasionally fail to start
up. The error messages are generally "Segmentation fault" or
"emacs: bad address".
I've never seen this problem on our machines which sound to be
configured very similarly. Trying compiling without optimization,
compiling with gcc... are you running X11? We are so our emacs may
never have been started other than as an X11 client.