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

[V S P <toreason%fastmail.fm@localhost>]

Greg

doing

ulimit -s 8196  worked 

originally it was set to 2048  (ulimit -s)

should this be a bug ? and if yes, is it against emacs or something else
?

thx again




On Mon, Mar 25, 2013, at 03:15 PM, Greg Oster wrote:
> 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

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