emacs on freebsd 5.3
Hi, I have an unusual problem I was hoping someone could help me with. I have a FreeBSD 5.3 server that's been up for longer than a month. In that period, everything seemed fine. However, all of a sudden, I'm no longer able to spawn a shell in emacs. In fact, I cannot start any process (shell, gdb, grep, compile) inside emacs. It is happening to all the users, which makes me wonder if there's some OS-related issue in play here. I've tried restarting emacs, bypassing the emacs startup file, reinstalling emacs, and just about everything I could think of short of restarting the server (don't want to do that until I'm physically present). Any ideas or advice would be welcome. Thanks! Tony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: emacs on freebsd 5.3
On Wednesday, 16 February 2005 at 17:20:24 -0800, Tony Tung wrote: Hi, I have an unusual problem I was hoping someone could help me with. I have a FreeBSD 5.3 server that's been up for longer than a month. In that period, everything seemed fine. However, all of a sudden, I'm no longer able to spawn a shell in emacs. In fact, I cannot start any process (shell, gdb, grep, compile) inside emacs. It is happening to all the users, which makes me wonder if there's some OS-related issue in play here. I've tried restarting emacs, bypassing the emacs startup file, reinstalling emacs, and just about everything I could think of short of restarting the server (don't want to do that until I'm physically present). It would be worth attaching a ktrace to the Emacs to see what it's doing. Something like this: $ ps aux | grep emacs root12978 0.0 1.3 12880 9832 p5 R 8Oct04 222:09.31 emacs $ ktrace -i -p 12978 (in Emacs, do your thing) $ ktrace -C -p 12978 $ kdump | less You should then look for a call to fork or execve and see what errors are returned. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgppkF260vCAO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: emacs on freebsd 5.3
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 16 February 2005 at 17:20:24 -0800, Tony Tung wrote: Hi, I have an unusual problem I was hoping someone could help me with. I have a FreeBSD 5.3 server that's been up for longer than a month. In that period, everything seemed fine. However, all of a sudden, I'm no longer able to spawn a shell in emacs. In fact, I cannot start any process (shell, gdb, grep, compile) inside emacs. It is happening to all the users, which makes me wonder if there's some OS-related issue in play here. I've tried restarting emacs, bypassing the emacs startup file, reinstalling emacs, and just about everything I could think of short of restarting the server (don't want to do that until I'm physically present). It would be worth attaching a ktrace to the Emacs to see what it's doing. Something like this: $ ps aux | grep emacs root12978 0.0 1.3 12880 9832 p5 R 8Oct04 222:09.31 emacs $ ktrace -i -p 12978 (in Emacs, do your thing) $ ktrace -C -p 12978 $ kdump | less You should then look for a call to fork or execve and see what errors are returned. Greg Hi, Strangely enough, that seems to have fixed the problem. Other users are seeing a return to normal behavior as well. Thanks, Tony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: emacs on freebsd 5.3
On Wednesday, 16 February 2005 at 17:32:07 -0800, Tony Tung wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 16 February 2005 at 17:20:24 -0800, Tony Tung wrote: Hi, I have an unusual problem I was hoping someone could help me with. I have a FreeBSD 5.3 server that's been up for longer than a month. In that period, everything seemed fine. However, all of a sudden, I'm no longer able to spawn a shell in emacs. In fact, I cannot start any process (shell, gdb, grep, compile) inside emacs. It is happening to all the users, which makes me wonder if there's some OS-related issue in play here. I've tried restarting emacs, bypassing the emacs startup file, reinstalling emacs, and just about everything I could think of short of restarting the server (don't want to do that until I'm physically present). It would be worth attaching a ktrace to the Emacs to see what it's doing. Something like this: ... You should then look for a call to fork or execve and see what errors are returned. Strangely enough, that seems to have fixed the problem. Other users are seeing a return to normal behavior as well. That shouldn't have made any difference. It was just to help you find the problem. Looks like it has escaped. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgpTp1suMJWeN.pgp Description: PGP signature
