From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: epa problem has returned Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 08:36:04 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <5384B0E4.1070100@cs.ucla.edu> References: <83wqdbjttp.fsf@gnu.org> <834n0cjxq6.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1401205022 8911 80.91.229.3 (27 May 2014 15:37:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 15:37:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 27 17:36:55 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WpJQi-00008K-Fw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 May 2014 17:36:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36042 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WpJQi-0002jI-24 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 May 2014 11:36:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54018) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WpJQW-0002h0-QN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 May 2014 11:36:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WpJQP-000873-8w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 May 2014 11:36:32 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:48712) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WpJQP-00082m-3r; Tue, 27 May 2014 11:36:25 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05F67A6000B; Tue, 27 May 2014 08:36:17 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id oFBMgyhTn-yI; Tue, 27 May 2014 08:36:08 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-108-0-233-62.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [108.0.233.62]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6464639E8014; Tue, 27 May 2014 08:36:08 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:172144 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > Would you like me to log the result of stepping around the big loop > in wait_running_process_output? It'd probably be more useful to see whether it's a vfork problem; see Bug#17561. Does the problem go away if you use fork instead of vfork? You can do that by removing sysdep.o, callproc.o, and process.o and compiling with -Dvfork=fork. Also, what platform are you running on? What is the output of the following shell commands? uname -a gcc --version | head -1 grep 'model name' /proc/cpuinfo cat /etc/issue