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Title: problems with XEmacs (crash)

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problems with XEmacs (crash)

Symptom:

During start-up or after a short time XEmacs crashes, e.g. with the following error message :

        Fatal error (11).
        Your files have been auto-saved.
        Use `M-x recover-session' to recover them.
        
        Please report this bug by running the send-pr script included
        with XEmacs, or selecting `Send Bug Report' from the help menu.

        [...]

Cause:

(X)Emacs is a program that tries to use the available hardware in an optimal way. Consequently intensive usage of the hardware is made. If the hardware is not set up correctly or if there are other hardware problems, the above mentioned symptom may occur.

It is also possible that XEmacs isn't compatible with one of the installed libraries.

Solution:

The current version of XEmacs seems to access internal functions of libXaw3d (package "xaw3d"); it might therefore cause difficulties, if the package "xaw3dd" is installed - please remove the package (at least for testing purposes; use the YaST package management). This behaviour is not really caused by "xaw3dd" but by faulty behaviour of XEmacs . E.g. xfig works flawlessly with "xaw3dd".

If this doesn't solve the problem, please folow the hints below :

Please try to check your hardware according to the SDB-article kfr_58.html, that also refers to "The SIG11 problem" http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11. Please pay attention that the various timing values are set up correctly (memory modules, processor).

If XEmacs misbehaves at run-time please proceed as is said in the error-message above : Send a bug report to the XEmacs developers team using the send-pr script. Another possibility is to write directly to <crashes@xemacs.org>.

If you want to create a core-file (this is usually requested in the messages that follow the crash), please change the ulimit-line in the file /etc/profile accordingly. Fitting values are prepared in this file in the comment lines.

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Keywords: XEMACS, CRASH, ULIMIT, CORE

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