castor@fizzle.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