Re: Emacs 21.4a - Solaris 10 x86, Fatal error (11) on exit

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Jeff Blaine wrote:
 >  >        I've compiled emacs21.4a on a Solaris 10 x86 box and get a
 >  > strange "Fatal error (11).Segmentation Fault" on exit of the emacs
 >  > program.  Emacs seems to work okay apart from this exit error.
 >  > Any ideas what the problem might be?
 >
 > Kevin Rodgers commented:
 >
 >         1. The -batch command line option implies
 >            -q (aka -no-init-file); try
 >
 >            ./emacs -no-site-file -batch -f list-load-path-shadows
 >
 > Kevin, I think this is missing the main problem.

I was just pointing out that there was no need to specify -q, and that
omitting -no-site-file left open the possibility that some local
configuration was triggering the error.  Not to blame such a
configuration, but just to see whether the C crash could be traced back
to a particular piece of Lisp.

 > % ./emacs -no-site-file -batch -f list-load-path-shadows
 > Fatal error (11).Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
 > %
 >
 > This is on Solaris 10 for SPARC in my case, not x86.  The
 > problem exists back in 21.3 under Solaris 10 as well FWIW.
 >
 > Note, however, that as Andy Heaps mentioned above, emacs
 > does in fact run (./emacs), then segfaults at exit time.
 >
 > Curious how there's no Emacs 21.x up on sunfreeware.com yet
 > after the OS has been out for over a year now.

The CSW (Community SoftWare) site at http://www.blastwave.org/ provides
21.3 binaries for Solaris 8 through 11 on both SPARC and x86, all built
on Solaris 8, from the stable respository.  It also provides 21.4
binaries for those platforms from the unstable repository, also built on
version 8.  See first the pkg-get site at
http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/pkg-get.html

 > Any ideas?  I have tried both with GNU ld/as as part of
 > binutils and also /usr/ccs/bin/ld (and as).  Same problem

What does ldd report for the emacs executable?  Do you have
LD_LIBRARY_PATH set?

-- 
Kevin Rodgers