On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Wednesday, 16 February 2005 at 17:20:24 -0800, Tony Tung wrote:
Hi,
I have an unusual problem I was hoping someone could help me with. I have a FreeBSD 5.3 server that's been up for longer than a month. In that period, everything seemed fine. However, all of a sudden, I'm no longer able to spawn a shell in emacs. In fact, I cannot start any process (shell, gdb, grep, compile) inside emacs. It is happening to all the users, which makes me wonder if there's some OS-related issue in play here.
I've tried restarting emacs, bypassing the emacs startup file, reinstalling emacs, and just about everything I could think of short of restarting the server (don't want to do that until I'm physically present).
It would be worth attaching a ktrace to the Emacs to see what it's doing. Something like this:
$ ps aux | grep emacs root 12978 0.0 1.3 12880 9832 p5 R 8Oct04 222:09.31 emacs $ ktrace -i -p 12978 (in Emacs, do your thing) $ ktrace -C -p 12978 $ kdump | less
You should then look for a call to fork or execve and see what errors are returned.
Greg
Hi,
Strangely enough, that seems to have fixed the problem. Other users are seeing a return to "normal" behavior as well.
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