From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Doug Lewan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Core dump on AIX? Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 18:54:22 +0000 Message-ID: <155DEC68569B714B86C2C7075F5EDA9828FE21EB@DAKIYA1.pegasus.local> References: <155DEC68569B714B86C2C7075F5EDA9828F0CB86@DAKIYA1.pegasus.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1370631121 14939 80.91.229.3 (7 Jun 2013 18:52:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 18:52:01 +0000 (UTC) To: Doug Lewan , "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 07 20:51:52 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1Ul1lP-0007co-Mn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:51:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34399 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ul1lP-0006ct-5X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:51:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60091) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ul1lE-0006cn-Or for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:51:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ul1lD-0001Gd-Kv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:51:40 -0400 Original-Received: from webmail.shubertorg.com ([207.246.209.200]:3835) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ul1lD-0001GW-H9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:51:39 -0400 Original-Received: from dakiya1.pegasus.local ([172.16.208.201]) by DAKIYA1.pegasus.local ([172.16.208.201]) with mapi id 14.01.0438.000; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:54:23 -0400 Thread-Topic: Core dump on AIX? Thread-Index: Ac5AO9oOQl0lUuRpT8+3t7rHGBy5YQjczsoQ In-Reply-To: <155DEC68569B714B86C2C7075F5EDA9828F0CB86@DAKIYA1.pegasus.local> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.0.21.202] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows 7 or 8 X-Received-From: 207.246.209.200 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91381 Archived-At: I thought I should let you know that, with the help of Glenn Morris and Eri= k Charlebois, I got a fix to build GNU emacs 24.3 on AIX 6.1 and it now run= s very reliably. I understand the fix is now a part of the emacs distribution. ,Douglas Douglas Lewan Shubert Ticketing (201) 489-8600 ext 224 If the majority of cooking accidents happen in the kitchen, then why don't = we just cook in other rooms? -----Original Message----- From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=3Dshubertticketing.com@gnu.org [mailto:h= elp-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=3Dshubertticketing.com@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Do= ug Lewan Sent: Tuesday, 2013 April 23 12:04 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Subject: Core dump on AIX? All, I'm using emacs 24.1 on AIX 6.1, built here with xlc. It was configured wit= h this line: ./configure --prefix=3D${HOME}/local --with-jpeg=3Dno --with-png=3Dno -= -with-gif=3Dno --with-tiff=3Dno I get fairly frequent core dumps in emacs. They seem associated with motion= but I can't say that that's absolute. There are some observations below. Does anyone have anything to help be wit= h this. One failure that I /can/ reproduce reliably that suggests the above is this= : 1. emacs -q file_of_interest.c & file_of_interest.c is about 1= .1MB and 34 000 lines. 2. M- 1 0 0 0 0 C-n 3. Fatal error (11)Resources lost(coredump) BTW I can't build 24.3 as my environment stands. Making eventually produces= this error: Emacs garbage collector has been changed to use conservative stack marking. Emacs has determined that the default method it uses to do th= e marking will not work on your system. We will need a system-dependent solution for your system. (Admittedly, I'm being a bit lazy turning to the mailing list, since it doe= s give a little hint about what to do: Please take a look at the function mark_stack in alloc.c, and try to find a way to make it work on your system. (And then it reveals that it's seeking help too: Please mail the result to . ) ) ,Douglas Douglas Lewan Shubert Ticketing (201) 489-8600 ext 224 If the majority of cooking accidents happen in the kitchen, then why don't = we just cook in other rooms?