Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!bucasb!mike From: mike@bucasb.bu.edu (Michael Cohen) Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Wierd bug in Interaction of Emacs with SGI 3130 Message-ID: <552949241.15810@bucasb.bu.edu> Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 17:00:41 EDT Article-I.D.: bucasb.552949241.15810 Posted: Fri Jul 10 17:00:41 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 12:05:43 EDT Reply-To: mike@bucasb.UUCP (Michael Cohen) Organization: Boston U., Center for Adaptive Systems Lines: 11 Keywords: Iris-3.5 operating System, Strange State Xref: mnetor comp.emacs:1381 comp.unix.questions:3155 comp.unix.wizards:3210 We encountered a strange problem in running GNU on our 3130. If certain users in arbitrary directory did a M-X compile, followed by a make -k, or a M-X shell. The entire computer system hung. We have 32MB swap space for our 170MB disk. I tracked the problem down with the emacs-debugger to a call to the function start_process. The problem was wierd because of its user specificity some users saw it independent of logon time. Our fix was to reload the operating system from cartridge tape which reloaded the root file system. FSCK detected no serious or other anomalies. Any ideas how to track such a problem down