> I finally got around to working on this. I reinstalled Mandrake due to a major
> hardware upgrade (plus I really hadn't touched the original install). I used
> Mandrake 60-2 for the install. Downloaded it from a mirror on July 31.
I doubt your initscripts will have any effect on this. This sounds like
maybe you should remove the emacs package. Download the source and
recompile it. See if you get any strange warnings, or errors. Thats my
.02
Gavin
>
> I still had problems with exiting emacs in console mode but at least this time
> it didn't lock up the console. So as one person suggested I used MandrakeUpdate
> to install the updated packages. The only packages it said needed to be updated
> were XConfigurator, initiscripts, netscape-common and netscape-communicator.
> So, I had MandrakeUpdate dl and install the new packages.
>
> I tried emacs in console mode again and still got a fatal error when I tried to
> quit.
>
> Will rebooting fix this since I got a new initscripts package? Or is there a
> newer kernel package that I should try even though MandrakeUpdate didn't find
> one.
>
> On 19-Jul-99 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Jason Bodnar wrote:
> >
> >> I'm a recent convert from SuSE to Mandrake.
> >
> > Congrats. ;)
> >
> >> I installed 6.0 the other night and it works perfectly except for a
> >> pretty major problem with emacs in console mode.
> >
> > The problem can be fixed by updating the kernel package. There was a minor
> > problem with kernels prior to 2.2.9-23mdk.
> >
> > While at it, you should also update the initscripts, sox and lilo
> > packages.
> >
> > LLaP
> > bero
>
