Re: [Q] emacs on 6.1 candidate (i386)

[Greg Oster <oster%cs.usask.ca@localhost>]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:28:39 -0600
Greg Oster <oster%cs.usask.ca@localhost> wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:36:26 +0100
> Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios%cs.uni-bonn.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 07:27:50PM -0400, V S P wrote:
> > 
> > > I am a new user so apologise if the question is trivial.
> > > 
> > > I cannot get emacs to work
> > > Getting a segfault after pgkin install
> > 
> > try to change the stack limit - I've seen problems with a too big or
> > too small stack limit.
> > 
> > (ulimit -s with sh, limit stack with csh)
> > 
> >     -is
> 
> I'm seeing coredumps with emacs24 as well (but on amd64).  What I've
> tracked it down to is:
> 
>   1) You have a directory that looks like this (with a CVS
>   subdirectory):
> 
>   prompt> ls *
>   foo
> 
>   CVS:
>   Entries     Repository  Root
>   prompt>
> 
>   2) If you run 'emacs foo' then it crashes.
> 
>   3) If you run 'emacs' and then load 'foo' it's fine.
> 
>   4) If you remove CVS/Entries you can do 'emacs foo' just fine.
> 
> That's as far as I've gotten... (and yes, I should have filed a PR..)

I had a sugestion to try removing cvs from vc-handled-backends.  If I
add this:

 (setq vc-handled-backends (quote (Hg)))

to my .emacs, then 'emacs foo' as above works again.

Later...

Greg Oster