From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: luangruo@yahoo.com, ali_gnu2@emvision.com
Cc: 69762@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#69762: X11 versions of Emacs 29 on sparc fail at startup
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 13:14:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8634sq77iu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <244fddd2-2de4-4e16-945e-4927fab4af12@emvision.com> (ali_gnu2@emvision.com)
> Cc: 69762@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 11:02:00 -0600
> From: ali_gnu2@emvision.com
>
> On 3/12/24 6:34 PM, Po Lu wrote:
> > Emacs works fine on sparc64-sun-solaris2.10, but the difference is that
> > the X libraries and servers installed there are ancient and predate the
> > introduction of generic events or XInput 2. The backtrace Rainer
> > produced demonstrates that the client-side abort is consequent on the X
> > server crashing as it attempts to respond to an XIGetSelectedEvents
> > request, which is _always_ a bug in the X server, whatever the
> > circumstances, and so I suggest redirecting your attention to X.Org, and
> > building `--without-xinput2' in the meantime.
>
> Thank you, this is very helpful. I guess I'm not too surprised
> that it works on Solaris 10. Your support of a 20 year old OS is
> admirable.
>
> I tried --without-xinput2 with the GTK version, and it does
> indeed skirt the problem. I can now reliably run it without
> crashing.
Po Lu, please document in PROBLEMS that XInput2 has bugs on Solaris
(probably only reecent versions?)
Thanks.
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-12 17:57 bug#69762: X11 versions of Emacs 29 on sparc fail at startup ali_gnu2
2024-03-13 0:34 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-13 17:02 ` ali_gnu2
2024-03-14 0:17 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-14 5:56 ` Ali Bahrami
2024-03-14 6:16 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-15 1:48 ` Ali Bahrami
2024-03-15 2:46 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-15 4:22 ` Ali Bahrami
2024-03-15 6:42 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-15 16:37 ` Ali Bahrami
2024-03-16 0:21 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-16 4:58 ` Ali Bahrami
2024-03-16 6:28 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-16 6:32 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-17 1:13 ` Ali Bahrami
2024-03-16 11:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-03-16 12:24 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-17 1:38 ` ali_gnu2
2024-03-17 11:54 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-23 17:00 ` Alan Coopersmith
2024-04-03 17:48 ` Alan Coopersmith via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-06 10:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-06 11:07 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-06 16:36 ` ali_gnu2
2024-04-07 0:53 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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