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- From: huxtable@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Kathryn Huxtable)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: GNU emacs 18.59 hangs on exit, HELP
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.115009.46735@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 11:50:06 CST
- References: <C1C3Bv.5yH@wang.com>
- Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
- Lines: 53
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- In article <C1C3Bv.5yH@wang.com>, wjs@wang.com (William Smith) writes:
- > I've built 18.59 on an rs6000 with version 3.2.0 operating system. About
- > 20% of the time, the terminal (xterm or vt100) hangs when I exit emacs. I
- > never hang when I suspend (C-z). Any ideas?
- > BTW, the same thing happened on 18.58.
- > thanks in advance, bill
-
- I didn't know there was an 18.59 release. Does it still
- have the same trivial s-aix3-2.h file as 18.58?
-
- We're having more serious problems with GNU Emacs 18.58 and
- AIX 3.2 on our RS6000s. In an xterm Emacs runs fine. In X
- Windows mode Emacs runs fine. In a telnet window it seems
- to start up fine but if I type (for example) "asdf" it
- responds in the message area with
-
- Fatal error (23).a
-
- and the "sdf" comes out after the initial message if you
- didn't specify any files on the command line or at the top
- of the file if you did specify a file on the command line.
-
- At this point the terminal appears to be reset to line mode
- and regular shell editing, etc. So all the control
- characters echo with carets and such. CTRL/C is reset to
- interrupt so you can't get out with C-X C-C. You have to do
- M-X kill-emacs<RET> to get out.
-
- If I run with dbx, setting a break in init_sys_modes, and
- run, it stops in init_sys_modes. If I then enter "step", I
- get the "Fatal error (23)." message, but it goes ahead and
- does the first line in init_sys_modes (which is an "if").
- If I then do a "cont" Emacs runs fine. Exiting returns me
- to dbx, which I can then exit. I think dbx is taking care
- of resetting the terminal, because when I've dinked with
- Emacs to prompt for gets-style input before calling
- init_sys_modes, it runs fine but doesn't reset my terminal
- upon exit.
-
- Someone suggested that I undef BROKEN_FIONREAD. I tried
- that. It worked as long as I typed rather slowly. Fast
- typing resulted in locking the terminal such that even
- interrupts weren't processed. This version hangs in all
- modes: telnet, xterm and X Windows.
-
- One problem is that none of us here are Unix gurus for *any*
- version of Unix, let alone AIX. I just don't yet have the
- knowledge to know what to look for or even where to look to
- find out.
-
- --
- Kathryn Huxtable \ "Women who laugh too much, and the women
- huxtable@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu /\ who love them." --- Jamie Anderson
-