Re: Deciphering strace output [WAS: Sudden Emacs Error]

Nevermind. I rebooted and it works okay now. Sorry for taking up bandwidth. -- ( __ _ Mark Wagnon ) Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA ( /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) www.debian.org _\_v__

Deciphering strace output [WAS: Sudden Emacs Error]

Okay, I ran across strace, and I invoked it like so: strace -o emacs.err emacs and I got a binch of `stuff' that I have no idea how to decipher. Does anyone know what this means? Here's the last bit of the error file: ---snip--- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) ioctl(

Sudden Emacs Error

Hi all, Since I've re-installed slink a couple weeks back, I've been using emacs without incident. Tonight I was writing a LaTeX document and running latex, xdvi, and dvips from its command shell. I took a break, and when I resumed my editing, emacs mysteriously bailed. I then tried to run it from